MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs Mac mini (Late 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 4323 2987
Multi-Core Score 14443 6237
Geekbench 4.3.1 Pro Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226) macOS 10.16 (Build 21H1320)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 151.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 286.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 4323 2987
AES 3701
2.79 GB/sec 		1452
1.09 GB/sec
LZMA 4099
6.40 MB/sec 		2794
4.36 MB/sec
JPEG 4469
36.0 Mpixels/sec 		3147
25.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4129
57.3 Mpixels/sec 		2898
40.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4139
4.25 MB/sec 		2166
2.23 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4797
3.25 MTE/sec 		3255
2.20 MTE/sec
SQLite 3848
106.7 Krows/sec 		2304
63.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3674
16.7 MB/sec 		2481
11.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5054
4.58 MElements/sec 		4458
4.04 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3969
124.0 Mpixels/sec 		2614
81.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5098
135.4 Mpixels/sec 		3630
96.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6900
474.5 functions/sec 		4889
336.2 functions/sec
Camera 4564
12.7 images/sec 		3306
9.17 images/sec
SGEMM 3498
74.0 Gflops 		1639
34.7 Gflops
SFFT 4127
10.3 Gflops 		2675
6.67 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3589
2.68 Mpairs/sec 		2633
1.97 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3245
473.8 Kpixels/sec 		2541
371.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4410
12911.6 FPS 		3639
10654.0 FPS
HDR 4211
15.3 Mpixels/sec 		3016
10.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4341
76.1 Mpixels/sec 		3023
53.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4535
38.8 Words/sec 		2828
24.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4135
1.21 Msubwindows/sec 		2801
818.2 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3832
10.6 GB/sec 		3414
9.46 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5322
81.4 ns 		5157
83.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4763
25.4 GB/sec 		2678
14.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 14443 6237
AES 11993
9.03 GB/sec 		5049
3.80 GB/sec
LZMA 17354
27.1 MB/sec 		7035
11.0 MB/sec
JPEG 19807
159.4 Mpixels/sec 		8167
65.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16823
233.3 Mpixels/sec 		7076
98.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 14337
14.7 MB/sec 		5258
5.40 MB/sec
Dijkstra 26688
18.1 MTE/sec 		8717
5.90 MTE/sec
SQLite 13523
374.9 Krows/sec 		5502
152.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13656
62.0 MB/sec 		5645
25.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18259
16.5 MElements/sec 		8305
7.52 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 15878
496.1 Mpixels/sec 		6121
191.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 18757
498.3 Mpixels/sec 		8029
213.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 28388
1.95 Kfunctions/sec 		11851
814.9 functions/sec
Camera 18352
50.9 images/sec 		8048
22.3 images/sec
SGEMM 12100
255.8 Gflops 		3117
65.9 Gflops
SFFT 15391
38.4 Gflops 		6658
16.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 14776
11.0 Mpairs/sec 		6158
4.60 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13553
1.98 Mpixels/sec 		6021
879.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20148
58982.0 FPS 		9240
27048.8 FPS
HDR 16943
61.4 Mpixels/sec 		7207
26.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 15604
273.4 Mpixels/sec 		6243
109.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17447
149.3 Words/sec 		6003
51.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 16610
4.85 Msubwindows/sec 		6663
1.95 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5386
14.9 GB/sec 		4320
12.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5335
81.1 ns 		5274
82.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4848
25.9 GB/sec 		3439
18.4 GB/sec

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