Mac mini (Late 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 3220 3356
Multi-Core Score 6262 10066
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C54) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2657)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 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 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 3072 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1 Apple Inc. Mac-94245A3940C91C80 MacBookPro8,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 274.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0047.B2C.1510261540
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 3220 3356
AES 2649
2.00 GB/sec 		2759
2.08 GB/sec
LZMA 3088
4.82 MB/sec 		3585
5.60 MB/sec
JPEG 3521
28.3 Mpixels/sec 		3731
30.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2973
41.2 Mpixels/sec 		3256
45.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2254
2.32 MB/sec 		2500
2.57 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3733
2.53 MTE/sec 		4117
2.79 MTE/sec
SQLite 2516
69.8 Krows/sec 		2710
75.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2651
12.0 MB/sec 		2774
12.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4145
3.76 MElements/sec 		3763
3.41 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2909
90.9 Mpixels/sec 		3048
95.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3727
99.0 Mpixels/sec 		3476
92.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4365
300.1 functions/sec 		3836
263.8 functions/sec
Camera 3403
9.44 images/sec 		3720
10.3 images/sec
SGEMM 1770
37.4 Gflops 		1858
39.3 Gflops
SFFT 3393
8.46 Gflops 		3516
8.77 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2836
2.12 Mpairs/sec 		2571
1.92 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2758
402.8 Kpixels/sec 		2727
398.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3852
11277.5 FPS 		4055
11871.4 FPS
HDR 3226
11.7 Mpixels/sec 		3210
11.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3293
57.7 Mpixels/sec 		3414
59.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3005
25.7 Words/sec 		4260
36.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3090
902.7 Ksubwindows/sec 		3417
998.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3600
9.98 GB/sec 		3359
9.31 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5143
84.2 ns 		6037
13.9 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2864
15.3 GB/sec 		2868
15.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)
Multi-Core Score 6262 10066
AES 5243
3.95 GB/sec 		10627
8.00 GB/sec
LZMA 7229
11.3 MB/sec 		15364
24.0 MB/sec
JPEG 8385
67.5 Mpixels/sec 		17272
139.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7288
101.1 Mpixels/sec 		13671
189.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5460
5.61 MB/sec 		10766
11.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9133
6.18 MTE/sec 		15024
10.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 5465
151.5 Krows/sec 		5423
150.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5696
25.9 MB/sec 		11171
50.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6742
6.11 MElements/sec 		7060
6.40 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6160
192.5 Mpixels/sec 		12563
392.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7837
208.2 Mpixels/sec 		12053
320.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11427
785.7 functions/sec 		9482
651.9 functions/sec
Camera 8067
22.4 images/sec 		15703
43.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3238
68.5 Gflops 		5577
117.9 Gflops
SFFT 6657
16.6 Gflops 		13303
33.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6160
4.60 Mpairs/sec 		10734
8.02 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6094
890.0 Kpixels/sec 		11739
1.71 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9209
26958.8 FPS 		18074
52909.8 FPS
HDR 7314
26.5 Mpixels/sec 		13906
50.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6380
111.8 Mpixels/sec 		11649
204.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6099
52.2 Words/sec 		11239
96.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 6730
1.97 Msubwindows/sec 		13820
4.04 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4502
12.5 GB/sec 		3555
9.85 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5314
81.5 ns 		5685
13.1 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3480
18.6 GB/sec 		3317
17.7 GB/sec

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