iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 5679 5319
Multi-Core Score 19324 26083
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 21D62) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G3020)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 8192 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 447.80.3.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.80.53.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.13050.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 5679 5319
AES 3542
2.67 GB/sec 		3064
2.31 GB/sec
LZMA 4819
7.53 MB/sec 		3621
5.66 MB/sec
JPEG 5704
45.9 Mpixels/sec 		5042
40.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4655
64.6 Mpixels/sec 		4684
65.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5619
5.78 MB/sec 		4799
4.93 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6539
4.42 MTE/sec 		5354
3.62 MTE/sec
SQLite 4945
137.1 Krows/sec 		4704
130.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5090
23.1 MB/sec 		4666
21.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7129
6.46 MElements/sec 		5391
4.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4952
154.7 Mpixels/sec 		4693
146.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6749
179.3 Mpixels/sec 		6339
168.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9436
648.8 functions/sec 		8785
604.0 functions/sec
Camera 5726
15.9 images/sec 		5362
14.9 images/sec
SGEMM 5985
126.5 Gflops 		5523
116.7 Gflops
SFFT 6123
15.3 Gflops 		5451
13.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5471
4.09 Mpairs/sec 		5476
4.09 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5026
734.0 Kpixels/sec 		4919
718.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6315
18487.0 FPS 		6463
18920.1 FPS
HDR 5966
21.6 Mpixels/sec 		6205
22.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6174
108.2 Mpixels/sec 		6335
111.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6264
53.6 Words/sec 		6441
55.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 5437
1.59 Msubwindows/sec 		5325
1.56 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5644
15.6 GB/sec 		5726
15.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6534
66.3 ns 		5888
73.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4865
26.0 GB/sec 		5068
27.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 19324 26083
AES 17181
12.9 GB/sec 		13528
10.2 GB/sec
LZMA 22540
35.2 MB/sec 		32613
50.9 MB/sec
JPEG 26334
211.9 Mpixels/sec 		37764
303.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 21069
292.2 Mpixels/sec 		28609
396.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 21212
21.8 MB/sec 		30209
31.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 23151
15.7 MTE/sec 		25991
17.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 17949
497.6 Krows/sec 		28023
776.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 18669
84.8 MB/sec 		29029
131.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 25843
23.4 MElements/sec 		28697
26.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 18334
572.9 Mpixels/sec 		33052
1.03 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 23345
620.2 Mpixels/sec 		31268
830.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 38960
2.68 Kfunctions/sec 		58672
4.03 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 25726
71.3 images/sec 		37894
105.1 images/sec
SGEMM 18140
383.5 Gflops 		21444
453.3 Gflops
SFFT 24645
61.4 Gflops 		35874
89.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 23527
17.6 Mpairs/sec 		35122
26.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 21140
3.09 Mpixels/sec 		30850
4.50 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 31262
91516.5 FPS 		46045
134791.8 FPS
HDR 25053
90.8 Mpixels/sec 		33945
123.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23697
415.1 Mpixels/sec 		33919
594.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 16134
138.0 Words/sec 		19371
165.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 24881
7.27 Msubwindows/sec 		37352
10.9 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6844
19.0 GB/sec 		6772
18.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6549
66.1 ns 		5709
75.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5375
28.7 GB/sec 		5628
30.1 GB/sec

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