MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 1541 2344
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 2670 5091

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mac OS X 10.10.2 (Build 14C109)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 6144 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F22587C8 Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 10.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 1684 2483
Integer Multicore 3130 5808
AES 130 2484
AES Multicore 240 4763
Twofish 2323 2609
Twofish Multicore 4376 6571
SHA1 2503 2710
SHA1 Multicore 4716 5413
SHA2 2555 3173
SHA2 Multicore 4823 5533
BZip2 Compress 2024 2342
BZip2 Compress Multicore 3820 6080
BZip2 Decompress 2161 2429
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 4139 6498
JPEG Compress 2052 2324
JPEG Compress Multicore 3824 6067
JPEG Decompress 1761 2424
JPEG Decompress Multicore 3289 5185
PNG Compress 1975 2275
PNG Compress Multicore 3735 6465
PNG Decompress 2106 2421
PNG Decompress Multicore 4001 6368
Sobel 1939 2476
Sobel Multicore 3536 5458
Lua 1984 2381
Lua Multicore 3663 5587
Dijkstra 1802 2352
Dijkstra Multicore 3014 5861

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 1753 2487
Floating Point Multicore 3127 6004
BlackScholes 1791 2847
BlackScholes Multicore 3379 7003
Mandelbrot 1847 2514
Mandelbrot Multicore 3538 8326
Sharpen Filter 2210 2299
Sharpen Filter Multicore 4138 5217
Blur Filter 2159 2413
Blur Filter Multicore 4058 5064
SGEMM 1388 2082
SGEMM Multicore 2190 5341
DGEMM 1332 2292
DGEMM Multicore 2025 6025
SFFT 1925 2447
SFFT Multicore 3559 5517
DFFT 1809 2626
DFFT Multicore 2848 5799
N-Body 1518 3100
N-Body Multicore 2888 6722
Ray Trace 1777 2401
Ray Trace Multicore 3434 5717

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 833 1781
Memory Multicore 836 1832
Stream Copy 1266 1778
Stream Copy Multicore 1281 1828
Stream Scale 709 1770
Stream Scale Multicore 719 1811
Stream Add 723 1766
Stream Add Multicore 717 1822
Stream Triad 744 1814
Stream Triad Multicore 741 1869