Mac mini (Late 2012) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 2888 2992
Multi-Core Score 5714 5817
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.12.3 (Build 16D12b) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A405)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-2620M @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1 Apple Inc. Mac-94245B3640C91C81 MacBookPro8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0B.1610201654 Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.004D.B00.1708080655
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 2888 2992
AES 2333
1.76 GB/sec 		2406
1.81 GB/sec
LZMA 2859
4.47 MB/sec 		2771
4.33 MB/sec
JPEG 3068
24.7 Mpixels/sec 		3419
27.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2824
39.2 Mpixels/sec 		3073
42.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2105
2.16 MB/sec 		2193
2.25 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3274
2.22 MTE/sec 		3209
2.17 MTE/sec
SQLite 2360
65.5 Krows/sec 		2303
63.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2345
10.6 MB/sec 		2448
11.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 2994
2.71 MElements/sec 		4067
3.69 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2594
81.1 Mpixels/sec 		2593
81.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2653
70.5 Mpixels/sec 		2729
72.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3268
224.7 functions/sec 		4809
330.7 functions/sec
Camera 3140
8.71 images/sec 		3219
8.93 images/sec
SGEMM 1605
33.9 Gflops 		1657
35.0 Gflops
SFFT 3088
7.70 Gflops 		3371
8.40 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2682
2.00 Mpairs/sec 		2386
1.78 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2473
361.2 Kpixels/sec 		2405
351.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3552
10400.9 FPS 		3794
11108.8 FPS
HDR 2921
10.6 Mpixels/sec 		2835
10.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2847
49.9 Mpixels/sec 		3168
55.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2728
23.3 Words/sec 		3142
26.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 2825
825.3 Ksubwindows/sec 		3039
887.7 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3391
9.40 GB/sec 		2829
7.84 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5191
12.0 Moperations/sec 		5586
77.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2646
14.1 GB/sec 		2561
13.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Multi-Core Score 5714 5817
AES 5058
3.81 GB/sec 		5091
3.83 GB/sec
LZMA 6917
10.8 MB/sec 		6984
10.9 MB/sec
JPEG 8189
65.9 Mpixels/sec 		8284
66.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6917
95.9 Mpixels/sec 		6949
96.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5106
5.25 MB/sec 		5300
5.45 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8464
5.73 MTE/sec 		8406
5.69 MTE/sec
SQLite 4575
126.8 Krows/sec 		5075
140.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5276
24.0 MB/sec 		5362
24.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4182
3.79 MElements/sec 		7127
6.46 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5837
182.4 Mpixels/sec 		5882
183.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6190
164.5 Mpixels/sec 		5906
156.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7018
482.5 functions/sec 		11059
760.4 functions/sec
Camera 7701
21.4 images/sec 		7695
21.3 images/sec
SGEMM 3067
64.8 Gflops 		2823
59.7 Gflops
SFFT 6511
16.2 Gflops 		6303
15.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5925
4.42 Mpairs/sec 		5212
3.89 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5912
863.3 Kpixels/sec 		5682
829.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9037
26456.0 FPS 		8748
25609.3 FPS
HDR 7091
25.7 Mpixels/sec 		6634
24.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5877
103.0 Mpixels/sec 		6265
109.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6033
51.6 Words/sec 		5816
49.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 6585
1.92 Msubwindows/sec 		6712
1.96 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4309
11.9 GB/sec 		3272
9.07 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5429
12.5 Moperations/sec 		5520
78.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3355
17.9 GB/sec 		2913
15.6 GB/sec

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