Mac mini (Late 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Late 2012)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 5181 4038
Multi-Core Score 21661 13765
Geekbench 4.4.0 Geekbench 4.2.0

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C205)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 12288 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 iMac13,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.260.170.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.5125.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM131.88Z.010F.B00.1708080805
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 5181 4038
AES 3595
2.71 GB/sec 		2812
2.12 GB/sec
LZMA 4871
7.61 MB/sec 		3928
6.14 MB/sec
JPEG 5485
44.1 Mpixels/sec 		4171
33.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5049
70.0 Mpixels/sec 		3841
53.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5417
5.57 MB/sec 		2846
2.93 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7153
4.84 MTE/sec 		4755
3.22 MTE/sec
SQLite 4782
132.6 Krows/sec 		3090
85.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5333
24.2 MB/sec 		2998
13.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6213
5.63 MElements/sec 		5031
4.56 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4951
154.7 Mpixels/sec 		3576
111.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6282
166.9 Mpixels/sec 		4165
110.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8899
611.9 functions/sec 		6594
453.4 functions/sec
Camera 5661
15.7 images/sec 		4442
12.3 images/sec
SGEMM 5814
122.9 Gflops 		2254
47.7 Gflops
SFFT 6074
15.1 Gflops 		4381
10.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5243
3.92 Mpairs/sec 		3639
2.72 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4828
705.1 Kpixels/sec 		3430
500.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6067
17761.6 FPS 		4895
14329.5 FPS
HDR 6435
23.3 Mpixels/sec 		4109
14.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5347
93.7 Mpixels/sec 		4113
72.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5999
51.3 Words/sec 		4941
42.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 5177
1.51 Msubwindows/sec 		3902
1.14 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5225
14.5 GB/sec 		4342
12.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3717
116.5 ns 		6842
63.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2435
13.0 GB/sec 		3398
18.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 21661 13765
AES 8007
6.03 GB/sec 		11390
8.58 GB/sec
LZMA 17437
27.2 MB/sec 		18643
29.1 MB/sec
JPEG 28894
232.5 Mpixels/sec 		21261
171.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16017
222.1 Mpixels/sec 		16348
226.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 23572
24.2 MB/sec 		13560
13.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24269
16.4 MTE/sec 		16911
11.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 20686
573.5 Krows/sec 		10933
303.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 26379
119.8 MB/sec 		13065
59.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 26976
24.4 MElements/sec 		19528
17.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 28709
897.0 Mpixels/sec 		15004
468.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 27352
726.7 Mpixels/sec 		14797
393.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 49083
3.37 Kfunctions/sec 		28334
1.95 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 32814
91.0 images/sec 		19625
54.4 images/sec
SGEMM 18197
384.6 Gflops 		8348
176.5 Gflops
SFFT 32994
82.3 Gflops 		16648
41.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 29095
21.7 Mpairs/sec 		15653
11.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 26987
3.94 Mpixels/sec 		15522
2.27 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 40869
119639.1 FPS 		23249
68060.0 FPS
HDR 34213
124.0 Mpixels/sec 		17406
63.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 30831
540.1 Mpixels/sec 		15458
270.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18448
157.8 Words/sec 		13733
117.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 30052
8.78 Msubwindows/sec 		17397
5.08 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6569
18.2 GB/sec 		5056
14.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6092
71.1 ns 		6698
64.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5446
29.1 GB/sec 		3589
19.2 GB/sec

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