MacBook Air (Mid 2017) vs Mac mini (Late 2014)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Single-Core Score 3547 3982
Multi-Core Score 6513 7648
Geekbench 4.4.3 Tryout Geekbench 4.2.3 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G6020) macOS 10.14 (Build 18A326h)
Model MacBook Air (Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Processor Intel Core i5-5350U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4578U @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
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-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2 Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 195.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MM71.88Z.0232.B00.1806051659
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Single-Core Score 3547 3982
AES 2903
2.19 GB/sec 		3364
2.53 GB/sec
LZMA 3276
5.12 MB/sec 		3955
6.18 MB/sec
JPEG 3661
29.5 Mpixels/sec 		4216
33.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3264
45.3 Mpixels/sec 		3685
51.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3378
3.47 MB/sec 		3978
4.09 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4047
2.74 MTE/sec 		4286
2.90 MTE/sec
SQLite 3140
87.1 Krows/sec 		3628
100.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3168
14.4 MB/sec 		3717
16.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3836
3.48 MElements/sec 		4632
4.20 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3283
102.6 Mpixels/sec 		3757
117.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3924
104.3 Mpixels/sec 		3970
105.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5809
399.4 functions/sec 		6977
479.7 functions/sec
Camera 3721
10.3 images/sec 		4229
11.7 images/sec
SGEMM 3152
66.6 Gflops 		3387
71.6 Gflops
SFFT 3847
9.59 Gflops 		4039
10.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3301
2.47 Mpairs/sec 		3559
2.66 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3225
471.0 Kpixels/sec 		3199
467.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4241
12415.3 FPS 		4309
12616.2 FPS
HDR 3910
14.2 Mpixels/sec 		3938
14.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3260
57.1 Mpixels/sec 		4021
70.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3030
25.9 Words/sec 		3874
33.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3415
997.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		3908
1.14 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3084
8.55 GB/sec 		3421
9.48 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4956
87.3 ns 		5574
77.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3024
16.2 GB/sec 		3285
17.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Multi-Core Score 6513 7648
AES 5261
3.96 GB/sec 		6816
5.13 GB/sec
LZMA 6923
10.8 MB/sec 		8572
13.4 MB/sec
JPEG 8391
67.5 Mpixels/sec 		10294
82.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7103
98.5 Mpixels/sec 		8628
119.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6058
6.23 MB/sec 		7320
7.52 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9072
6.14 MTE/sec 		9745
6.59 MTE/sec
SQLite 6096
169.0 Krows/sec 		6847
189.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6078
27.6 MB/sec 		7369
33.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6082
5.51 MElements/sec 		8716
7.90 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6321
197.5 Mpixels/sec 		8286
258.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8095
215.1 Mpixels/sec 		8226
218.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12638
869.0 functions/sec 		15256
1.05 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8342
23.1 images/sec 		10078
27.9 images/sec
SGEMM 5285
111.7 Gflops 		6277
132.7 Gflops
SFFT 7198
17.9 Gflops 		8455
21.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7190
5.37 Mpairs/sec 		7678
5.73 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6813
994.9 Kpixels/sec 		7505
1.10 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9904
28993.9 FPS 		10914
31949.6 FPS
HDR 8438
30.6 Mpixels/sec 		9190
33.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6978
122.3 Mpixels/sec 		8614
150.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5774
49.4 Words/sec 		6479
55.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 7508
2.19 Msubwindows/sec 		8827
2.58 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3818
10.6 GB/sec 		4369
12.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4592
94.3 ns 		5425
79.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3351
17.9 GB/sec 		3426
18.3 GB/sec

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