Mac mini (Late 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3444 5071
Multi-Core Score 11803 16198
Geekbench 4.2.3 Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.13.5 (Build 17F77) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 1.0
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.010E.B00.1804111136 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0157.B00.1802080917
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 3200 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3444 5071
AES 2811
2.12 GB/sec 		3550
2.67 GB/sec
LZMA 3116
4.87 MB/sec 		3949
6.17 MB/sec
JPEG 3768
30.3 Mpixels/sec 		5317
42.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3405
47.2 Mpixels/sec 		4875
67.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2441
2.51 MB/sec 		5154
5.30 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3705
2.51 MTE/sec 		4556
3.08 MTE/sec
SQLite 2743
76.1 Krows/sec 		4239
117.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2773
12.6 MB/sec 		4363
19.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4434
4.02 MElements/sec 		5748
5.21 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3127
97.7 Mpixels/sec 		4543
142.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3458
91.9 Mpixels/sec 		5276
140.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5545
381.3 functions/sec 		8290
570.0 functions/sec
Camera 3958
11.0 images/sec 		5774
16.0 images/sec
SGEMM 1979
41.8 Gflops 		5409
114.3 Gflops
SFFT 3667
9.14 Gflops 		5770
14.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3113
2.33 Mpairs/sec 		5207
3.89 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2903
424.0 Kpixels/sec 		4824
704.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4262
12477.0 FPS 		5916
17318.3 FPS
HDR 3525
12.8 Mpixels/sec 		6527
23.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3493
61.2 Mpixels/sec 		5492
96.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3827
32.8 Words/sec 		4668
39.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3485
1.02 Msubwindows/sec 		4966
1.45 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3558
9.86 GB/sec 		4520
12.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5307
81.6 ns 		6108
70.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2913
15.6 GB/sec 		4420
23.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 11803 16198
AES 8164
6.15 GB/sec 		11141
8.39 GB/sec
LZMA 15828
24.7 MB/sec 		18719
29.2 MB/sec
JPEG 19223
154.7 Mpixels/sec 		22167
178.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14123
195.8 Mpixels/sec 		17406
241.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12131
12.5 MB/sec 		17704
18.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14683
9.94 MTE/sec 		19509
13.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 9645
267.4 Krows/sec 		15422
427.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12234
55.5 MB/sec 		16422
74.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11900
10.8 MElements/sec 		18051
16.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13774
430.4 Mpixels/sec 		18570
580.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12467
331.2 Mpixels/sec 		19267
511.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24722
1.70 Kfunctions/sec 		32099
2.21 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17769
49.3 images/sec 		23926
66.3 images/sec
SGEMM 6331
133.8 Gflops 		12418
262.5 Gflops
SFFT 15159
37.8 Gflops 		22510
56.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13900
10.4 Mpairs/sec 		20350
15.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13897
2.03 Mpixels/sec 		19272
2.81 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21169
61969.9 FPS 		23782
69618.3 FPS
HDR 15851
57.5 Mpixels/sec 		23031
83.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14133
247.6 Mpixels/sec 		21429
375.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11011
94.2 Words/sec 		12334
105.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 15429
4.51 Msubwindows/sec 		21977
6.42 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4406
12.2 GB/sec 		5655
15.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5371
80.6 ns 		5997
72.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3281
17.5 GB/sec 		4781
25.5 GB/sec

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