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 4066 3117
Multi-Core Score 11734 10156
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.12 (Build 16A313a) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555)
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 i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 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 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP112.88Z.0138.B17.1602221600 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0A.1509111654
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 4066 3117
AES 3335
2.51 GB/sec 		2641
1.99 GB/sec
LZMA 3898
6.09 MB/sec 		3132
4.89 MB/sec
JPEG 4303
34.6 Mpixels/sec 		3564
28.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3915
54.3 Mpixels/sec 		3096
42.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3871
3.98 MB/sec 		2387
2.45 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4401
2.98 MTE/sec 		3533
2.39 MTE/sec
SQLite 3765
104.4 Krows/sec 		2431
67.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3627
16.5 MB/sec 		1999
9.08 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3945
3.57 MElements/sec 		2913
2.64 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3708
115.9 Mpixels/sec 		2908
90.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3997
106.2 Mpixels/sec 		3384
89.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4847
333.3 functions/sec 		3295
226.6 functions/sec
Camera 4284
11.9 images/sec 		3662
10.2 images/sec
SGEMM 3495
73.9 Gflops 		1798
38.0 Gflops
SFFT 4047
10.1 Gflops 		3566
8.89 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3652
2.73 Mpairs/sec 		2882
2.15 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3270
477.6 Kpixels/sec 		2707
395.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4161
12180.8 FPS 		3916
11465.9 FPS
HDR 3909
14.2 Mpixels/sec 		3202
11.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3835
67.2 Mpixels/sec 		3134
54.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4397
37.6 Words/sec 		3198
27.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 4107
1.20 Msubwindows/sec 		3111
908.7 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3826
10.6 GB/sec 		3503
9.71 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5525
12.8 Moperations/sec 		5383
12.4 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4711
25.2 GB/sec 		2749
14.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 11734 10156
AES 11784
8.87 GB/sec 		8892
6.70 GB/sec
LZMA 15881
24.8 MB/sec 		13644
21.3 MB/sec
JPEG 18421
148.2 Mpixels/sec 		16529
133.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15362
213.0 Mpixels/sec 		13829
191.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12616
13.0 MB/sec 		10861
11.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 21893
14.8 MTE/sec 		13946
9.44 MTE/sec
SQLite 6287
174.3 Krows/sec 		4960
137.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 11696
53.1 MB/sec 		11100
50.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12490
11.3 MElements/sec 		7120
6.45 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13441
420.0 Mpixels/sec 		12182
380.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13762
365.6 Mpixels/sec 		12403
329.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9020
620.2 functions/sec 		9823
675.4 functions/sec
Camera 15441
42.8 images/sec 		15982
44.3 images/sec
SGEMM 11041
233.4 Gflops 		6115
129.3 Gflops
SFFT 14078
35.1 Gflops 		14117
35.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12768
9.54 Mpairs/sec 		12403
9.26 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12095
1.77 Mpixels/sec 		12405
1.81 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 17723
51883.4 FPS 		19034
55719.3 FPS
HDR 15284
55.4 Mpixels/sec 		14854
53.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12694
222.4 Mpixels/sec 		12663
221.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 15162
129.7 Words/sec 		10801
92.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 14699
4.29 Msubwindows/sec 		14236
4.16 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5287
14.6 GB/sec 		4503
12.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5627
13.0 Moperations/sec 		5544
12.8 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4662
24.9 GB/sec 		3398
18.1 GB/sec

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