iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018) Difference
Single-Core Score 1030 1110 92.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Multi-Core Score 4232 4455 95.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.15.2 (Build 19C57) macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H15)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00 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 94 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 8.00 MB x 1 12.0 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 173.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.147.4.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.16610.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB DDR3 32.00 GB DDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018) Difference
Single-Core Score 1030 1110 92.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
AES-XTS 1107 1134 97.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Text Compression 1060 1193 88.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Image Compression 1012 1030 98.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Navigation 998 1066 93.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
HTML5 940 1045 90.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
SQLite 987 1108 89.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
PDF Rendering 1044 1139 91.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Text Rendering 1033 1032 100.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Clang 990 1124 88.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Camera 1093 1180 92.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
N-Body Physics 1061 1106 95.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1254 1388 90.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Gaussian Blur 308 340 90.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Face Detection 638 710 89.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Horizon Detection 1053 1125 93.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Image Inpainting 2053 2293 89.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
HDR 1960 2062 95.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Ray Tracing 1134 1189 95.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Structure from Motion 968 1074 90.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Speech Recognition 1130 1305 86.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Machine Learning 1165 1133 102.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac mini (Late 2018) Difference
Multi-Core Score 4232 4455 95.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
AES-XTS 4406 2951 149.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Text Compression 4743 6054 78.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Image Compression 4632 5247 88.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Navigation 2882 2248 128.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
HTML5 3636 4122 88.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
SQLite 4183 4779 87.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
PDF Rendering 4228 4559 92.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Text Rendering 3678 3446 106.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Clang 4321 5174 83.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Camera 4223 4476 94.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
N-Body Physics 4379 6106 71.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Rigid Body Physics 6683 8030 83.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Gaussian Blur 4081 5057 80.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Face Detection 5079 6251 81.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Horizon Detection 4433 4789 92.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Image Inpainting 6258 6600 94.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
HDR 8348 8862 94.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Ray Tracing 7049 8044 87.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Structure from Motion 4201 4507 93.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Speech Recognition 2623 2206 118.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
Machine Learning 2086 1479 141.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
Mac mini (Late 2018)