MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) vs Mac mini (Late 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 4547 3684
Multi-Core Score 15357 12467
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G84) macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-4980HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 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-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 194.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B12.1702171720
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 4547 3684
AES 3944
2.97 GB/sec 		3042
2.29 GB/sec
LZMA 4399
6.87 MB/sec 		3841
6.00 MB/sec
JPEG 4758
38.3 Mpixels/sec 		4008
32.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4289
59.5 Mpixels/sec 		3575
49.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4468
4.59 MB/sec 		2714
2.79 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5045
3.41 MTE/sec 		4020
2.72 MTE/sec
SQLite 3889
107.8 Krows/sec 		2986
82.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4260
19.3 MB/sec 		2995
13.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5368
4.86 MElements/sec 		4770
4.32 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4323
135.1 Mpixels/sec 		3236
101.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4444
118.1 Mpixels/sec 		3819
101.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7769
534.2 functions/sec 		5918
406.9 functions/sec
Camera 4943
13.7 images/sec 		4041
11.2 images/sec
SGEMM 3841
81.2 Gflops 		2037
43.1 Gflops
SFFT 4471
11.1 Gflops 		3895
9.71 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3984
2.98 Mpairs/sec 		3364
2.51 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3623
529.0 Kpixels/sec 		3177
464.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4864
14240.2 FPS 		4509
13201.8 FPS
HDR 4391
15.9 Mpixels/sec 		3721
13.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4442
77.8 Mpixels/sec 		3724
65.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4640
39.7 Words/sec 		4323
37.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 4464
1.30 Msubwindows/sec 		3418
998.4 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3744
10.4 GB/sec 		3864
10.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5164
83.8 ns 		5294
81.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5136
27.4 GB/sec 		3118
16.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 15357 12467
AES 11638
8.76 GB/sec 		11302
8.51 GB/sec
LZMA 18092
28.3 MB/sec 		16697
26.1 MB/sec
JPEG 22196
178.6 Mpixels/sec 		19431
156.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 17655
244.8 Mpixels/sec 		15214
211.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15995
16.4 MB/sec 		12484
12.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24810
16.8 MTE/sec 		15260
10.3 MTE/sec
SQLite 15028
416.6 Krows/sec 		10093
279.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15861
72.0 MB/sec 		12713
57.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18369
16.6 MElements/sec 		12237
11.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17567
548.9 Mpixels/sec 		13694
427.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 16387
435.3 Mpixels/sec 		13995
371.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 30817
2.12 Kfunctions/sec 		26528
1.82 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 20949
58.1 images/sec 		18294
50.7 images/sec
SGEMM 13452
284.4 Gflops 		7300
154.3 Gflops
SFFT 17833
44.5 Gflops 		15133
37.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15573
11.6 Mpairs/sec 		14332
10.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15089
2.20 Mpixels/sec 		14142
2.07 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22156
64861.2 FPS 		21622
63296.0 FPS
HDR 18320
66.4 Mpixels/sec 		16285
59.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17530
307.1 Mpixels/sec 		14329
251.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18313
156.7 Words/sec 		11699
100.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 19305
5.64 Msubwindows/sec 		15934
4.65 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5162
14.3 GB/sec 		4851
13.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5311
81.5 ns 		5512
78.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4548
24.3 GB/sec 		3541
18.9 GB/sec

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