Apple Mac mini i7 2.3 (Late 2012)
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Apple iMac 21.5" i5 3.0 Retina 4K (2017)

Product comparison with benchmarks

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Device Information

Silver Colours Silver
799 $ / 829 € Price from 1,299 $ / 1,499 €
Q4/2012 Release date Q2/2017

Processor

Intel Core i7-3615QM Name Intel Core i5-7400
Intel Manufacturer Intel
4 / 8 Cores / Threads 4 / 4
2.30 (3.30) GHz Frequency 3.00 (3.50) GHz
22 nm Structure 14 nm
Ivy Bridge H Architecture Kaby Lake
Q2/2012 Release date Q1/2017

Memory

4 - 16 GB Memory Size 8 - 16 GB
DDR3 1600 Memory Type DDR4 2400
-- Memory Bandwith --
Yes Upgradeable? Yes

Graphic card

Intel HD Graphics 4000 Name AMD Radeon Pro 555
Internal Type Dedicated
0.65 (1.20) GHz Frequency 0.85 GHz
0.50 GB Memory Size 2.00 GB
LPDDR3 Memory Type GDDR5
22 nm Structure 14 nm
Q1/2011 Release date Q3/2017

Graphic card 2

-- Name Intel UHD Graphics 630
-- Type Internal
-- Frequency 0.35 (1.00) GHz
-- Memory Size 1.50 GB
-- Memory Type --
-- Structure 14 nm
-- Release date Q4/2017

Screen

-- Size 21.5 inch
Resolution 4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz (219 ppi)
-- Ratio 16:9
-- Technology IPS
-- Max. Brightness 500 nits
No HDR support No
No Always On Display No
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 1. external display 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 2. external display --
-- 3. external display --

Storage

1,024 GB Size 1,024 GB
Harddrive Type Harddrive
SATA 6 GB/s Interface SATA 6 GB/s
Yes Upgradeable? No
-- 2. drive Optional 1TB Fusion Drive / 256 - 512GB SSD
SDXC Card reader SDXC

Network

802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless LAN 802.11ac
1 Gbit LAN 1 Gbit
Bluetooth 4.0 Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.2
-- Cellular --

Camera

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

Ports

1x HDMI --
-- DVI --
1x (Thunderbolt 1) DistplayPort --
1x Mini Display Port (Thunderbolt 1) Thunderbolt 2x USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB 3.1 Gen 2)
4x USB 3.0 USB 4x USB 3.0
-- USB-C 2x (Thunderbolt 3)
-- Lightning --
1x Firewire 800 Other --

Dimensions / Housing

36 mm Height 450 mm
197 mm Width 528 mm
197 mm Depth 175 mm
1,220 g Weight 5,660 g
-- Housing Material --
-- Glas Type --
-- IP Protection Class --

Additional data

A1347 Part-no A1418
Macmini6,2 Ident-No: iMac18,2
2570 EMC-No: 3069
-- 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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