Apple iMac 21.5" i5 2.8 (Late 2015)
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Apple Mac mini i5 3.0 (2018)

Product comparison with benchmarks

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Device Information

Silver Colours Space Grey
1,299 $ / 1,499 € Price from 1,099 $ / 1,249 €
Q4/2015 Release date Q4/2018

Processor

Intel Core i5-5575R Name Intel Core i5-8500B
Intel Manufacturer Intel
4 / 4 Cores / Threads 6 / 6
2.80 (3.30) GHz Frequency 3.00 (4.10) GHz
14 nm Structure 14 nm
Broadwell Architecture Coffee Lake S
Q2/2015 Release date Q1/2018

Memory

8 - 16 GB Memory Size 8 - 64 GB
LPDDR3 1867 Memory Type DDR4 2666
-- Memory Bandwith --
Yes Upgradeable? Yes

Graphic card

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 Name Intel UHD Graphics 630
Internal Type Internal
0.30 (1.05) GHz Frequency 0.35 (1.15) GHz
1.50 GB Memory Size 1.50 GB
DDR3,LPDDR3 Memory Type --
14 nm Structure 14 nm
Q2/2015 Release date Q4/2017

Screen

21.5 inch Size --
1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz (103 ppi) Resolution
16:9 Ratio --
IPS Technology --
-- Max. Brightness --
No HDR support No
No Always On Display No
3840 x 2160 @ 60Hz 1. external display 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz
-- 2. external display 4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz
-- 3. external display --

Storage

1,024 GB Size 256 - 2,048 GB
Harddrive Type SSD
SATA 6 GB/s Interface PCIe
Yes Upgradeable? No
Optional 2 TB Fusion Drive / 256 GB SSD 2. drive --
SDXC Card reader --

Network

802.11ac Wireless LAN 802.11ac
1 Gbit LAN 1 Gbit
Bluetooth 4.0 Bluetooth Bluetooth 5.0
-- Cellular --

Camera

0.9 MP, 720p Front camera --
-- Back camera 1 --
-- Back camera 2 --
-- Back camera 3 --

Ports

-- HDMI 1x HDMI 2.0
-- DVI --
2x Mini DisplayPort DistplayPort --
2x Thunderbolt 2 (Mini DisplayPort) Thunderbolt 4x USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB 3.1 Gen 2)
4x USB 3.0 USB 2x USB 3.0
-- USB-C 2x (Thunderbolt)
-- Lightning --
-- Other --

Dimensions / Housing

450 mm Height 36 mm
528 mm Width 197 mm
175 mm Depth 197 mm
5,680 g Weight 1,300 g
-- Housing Material --
-- Glas Type --
-- IP Protection Class --

Additional data

A1418 Part-no A1993
iMac16,1 Ident-No: Macmini8,1
2889 EMC-No: 3213
-- Security features --
Link to manufacturer data sheet Link to manufacturer

Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 6 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Cinebench R23 - Single Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




Cinebench R23 - Multi Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS) - FP32 (TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS. TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second. The larger this number, the faster the graphics card is.




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