iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Difference
Single-Core Score 956 980 97.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Multi-Core Score 3892 3964 98.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Geekbench 5.1.0 Tryout Geekbench 5.0.0 Tryout

System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.2 (Build 19C57) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-7700 @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 8.00 MB x 1 8.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D 1.0
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 179.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 162.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB DDR4 16.00 GB RAM

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Difference
Single-Core Score 956 980 97.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
AES-XTS 1005 1076 93.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Text Compression 858 963 89.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Image Compression 919 1083 84.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Navigation 913 889 102.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
HTML5 778 838 92.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
SQLite 932 955 97.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
PDF Rendering 1006 999 100.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Text Rendering 1001 1024 97.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Clang 988 1002 98.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Camera 1071 1045 102.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
N-Body Physics 940 970 96.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1279 1212 105.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Gaussian Blur 294 355 82.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Face Detection 551 651 84.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Horizon Detection 957 1037 92.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Image Inpainting 1975 1697 116.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
HDR 1882 1906 98.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Ray Tracing 1089 969 112.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Structure from Motion 940 942 99.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Speech Recognition 1066 872 122.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Machine Learning 1189 1033 115.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Difference
Multi-Core Score 3892 3964 98.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
AES-XTS 4562 4507 101.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Text Compression 4109 4628 88.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Image Compression 4450 4990 89.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Navigation 2803 2832 99.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
HTML5 2991 3466 86.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
SQLite 3656 4198 87.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
PDF Rendering 3946 3364 117.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Text Rendering 3410 3411 100.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Clang 3729 3766 99.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Camera 3283 3940 83.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
N-Body Physics 4020 4178 96.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Rigid Body Physics 6382 6266 101.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Gaussian Blur 4098 4188 97.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Face Detection 4345 4095 106.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Horizon Detection 4324 3939 109.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Image Inpainting 6283 5582 112.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
HDR 7987 7798 102.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Ray Tracing 6611 5956 111.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Structure from Motion 3727 3752 99.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Speech Recognition 2718 2516 108.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Machine Learning 2283 1871 122.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 

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