Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 7518 6393

System Information

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.9.3 (Build 13D65) Mac OS X 10.12.3 (Build 16D32)
Model Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 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 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E Macmini5,2 Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0B.1610201654
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 12.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 5829 4907
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1952 2250
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
6406 7640
Text Compress
single-core scalar
3145 2617
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
7956 6772
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
3496 2704
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
8898 7643
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2900 2257
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
7465 5741
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
3323 2328
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
7698 5395
Lua
single-core scalar
5277 4052
Lua
multi-core scalar
11436 9490

Floating Point Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 9889 9142
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2703 2949
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
9281 10263
Dot Product
single-core scalar
4401 4148
Dot Product
single-core vector
5321 6313
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
10831 11345
Dot Product
multi-core vector
15225 14021
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
2381 1400
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
3994 2531
Primality Test
single-core scalar
7922 6641
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
16449 12546
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
6316 6036
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
20756 18670
Blur Image
single-core scalar
7361 7079
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
25518 24057

Memory Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 6060 4914
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
6185 6944
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
9047 8197
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
4438 3023
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
4610 2702
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
6022 3706

Stream Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Stream 8049 4935
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
7240 5566
Stream Copy
single-core vector
9544 6103
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
7041 5778
Stream Scale
single-core vector
9091 5689
Stream Add
single-core scalar
6938 2458
Stream Add
single-core vector
9810 6333
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
7474 2838
Stream Triad
single-core vector
7260 4722