Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Geekbench 2 Score 10480 7090

System Information

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Build 10K549) Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Build 11G56)
Model Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 6144 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1 Apple Inc. Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E Macmini5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549
Memory 16.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Integer 11438 5656
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1838 1947
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
15045 6260
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2400 3112
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
19119 7852
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
2081 3383
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
17210 8903
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2428 2800
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
18241 7298
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
2452 3216
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
14388 7407
Lua
single-core scalar
4845 5152
Lua
multi-core scalar
37219 10553

Floating Point Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Floating Point 16144 9545
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2091 2685
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
16297 9230
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3800 4377
Dot Product
single-core vector
2937 5283
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
30750 10715
Dot Product
multi-core vector
25610 14934
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1661 2362
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
12565 3253
Primality Test
single-core scalar
5377 7451
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
25343 14250
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
5994 6263
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
37459 20090
Blur Image
single-core scalar
7093 7251
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
49050 25499

Memory Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Memory 3048 5402
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
2559 6106
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
3707 8840
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2833 4013
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
3809 3600
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2332 4454

Stream Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Stream 2175 6895
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
2222 6659
Stream Copy
single-core vector
2435 7579
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2241 6634
Stream Scale
single-core vector
2295 7371
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1930 6371
Stream Add
single-core vector
2327 7876
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2197 6927
Stream Triad
single-core vector
1756 5747