Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Geekbench 3 Score 2473 1663
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 5056 11622

System Information

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555) Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Build 12F45)
Model Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 6144 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1 Macmini5,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B14.1510261805 Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410
Memory 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 20.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Integer Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Integer 2397 1895
Integer Multicore 5645 13791
AES 2392 176
AES Multicore 4964 1380
Twofish 2166 2398
Twofish Multicore 5556 18879
SHA1 2378 2657
SHA1 Multicore 5037 21052
SHA2 2544 2879
SHA2 Multicore 5089 22640
BZip2 Compress 2144 1968
BZip2 Compress Multicore 5339 15356
BZip2 Decompress 2166 2031
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 5594 15846
JPEG Compress 2661 2348
JPEG Compress Multicore 6575 18503
JPEG Decompress 3580 3133
JPEG Decompress Multicore 7602 23708
PNG Compress 2481 2179
PNG Compress Multicore 6662 17230
PNG Decompress 2541 2351
PNG Decompress Multicore 6322 17242
Sobel 2551 2148
Sobel Multicore 5655 14054
Lua 1942 2243
Lua Multicore 4702 16785
Dijkstra 1994 1737
Dijkstra Multicore 5008 7033

Floating Point Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Floating Point 2480 1868
Floating Point Multicore 5608 14415
BlackScholes 3095 2356
BlackScholes Multicore 7113 18133
Mandelbrot 2179 1848
Mandelbrot Multicore 6276 14635
Sharpen Filter 2208 2314
Sharpen Filter Multicore 5096 18196
Blur Filter 1806 2055
Blur Filter Multicore 4794 16115
SGEMM 2705 1437
SGEMM Multicore 5973 10995
DGEMM 3022 1360
DGEMM Multicore 6099 10091
SFFT 2302 1802
SFFT Multicore 4732 14045
DFFT 2246 1708
DFFT Multicore 4799 12508
N-Body 2531 1857
N-Body Multicore 5078 14693
Ray Trace 3062 2243
Ray Trace Multicore 6718 17392

Memory Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Memory 2612 793
Memory Multicore 2774 1698
Stream Copy 2646 1185
Stream Copy Multicore 2768 2265
Stream Scale 2527 735
Stream Scale Multicore 2786 1647
Stream Add 2608 667
Stream Add Multicore 2732 1482
Stream Triad 2671 683
Stream Triad Multicore 2811 1507