Mac mini (Late 2018) vs Mac mini (Late 2012)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 4873 3239
Multi-Core Score 15046 10481
Geekbench 4.4.1 Geekbench 4.0.0 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G87) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i3-8100B @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
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 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.270.99.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6568.0.0,0) Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0A.1509111654
Memory 16.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 4873 3239
AES 4118
3.10 GB/sec 		2847
2.14 GB/sec
LZMA 4138
6.46 MB/sec 		3123
4.88 MB/sec
JPEG 4624
37.2 Mpixels/sec 		3629
29.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4376
60.7 Mpixels/sec 		3286
45.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4584
4.71 MB/sec 		2466
2.53 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5483
3.71 MTE/sec 		3466
2.35 MTE/sec
SQLite 4029
111.7 Krows/sec 		2726
75.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4153
18.9 MB/sec 		2684
12.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5239
4.75 MElements/sec 		3682
3.34 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4249
132.8 Mpixels/sec 		2962
92.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5722
152.0 Mpixels/sec 		3458
91.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7638
525.2 functions/sec 		3580
246.2 functions/sec
Camera 4903
13.6 images/sec 		3687
10.2 images/sec
SGEMM 4754
100.5 Gflops 		1883
39.8 Gflops
SFFT 5214
13.0 Gflops 		3628
9.04 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4451
3.32 Mpairs/sec 		3037
2.27 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4078
595.5 Kpixels/sec 		2839
414.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5127
15010.9 FPS 		4011
11743.0 FPS
HDR 5545
20.1 Mpixels/sec 		3307
12.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4943
86.6 Mpixels/sec 		3305
57.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5037
43.1 Words/sec 		3500
29.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 4517
1.32 Msubwindows/sec 		3170
925.9 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5016
13.9 GB/sec 		3389
9.39 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5742
75.4 ns 		5051
11.7 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4839
25.8 GB/sec 		2709
14.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 15046 10481
AES 14831
11.2 GB/sec 		8131
6.12 GB/sec
LZMA 14809
23.1 MB/sec 		15056
23.5 MB/sec
JPEG 18392
148.0 Mpixels/sec 		18127
145.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15929
220.9 Mpixels/sec 		14236
197.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 16986
17.5 MB/sec 		11800
12.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15557
10.5 MTE/sec 		13938
9.43 MTE/sec
SQLite 15613
432.8 Krows/sec 		5674
157.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15471
70.2 MB/sec 		11616
52.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 19852
18.0 MElements/sec 		7165
6.49 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 16761
523.7 Mpixels/sec 		13353
417.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 19108
507.6 Mpixels/sec 		12406
329.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 28922
1.99 Kfunctions/sec 		10302
708.3 functions/sec
Camera 19378
53.7 images/sec 		16844
46.7 images/sec
SGEMM 14683
310.4 Gflops 		6148
130.0 Gflops
SFFT 20808
51.9 Gflops 		14417
35.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17608
13.2 Mpairs/sec 		13236
9.89 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14523
2.12 Mpixels/sec 		13255
1.94 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20182
59080.6 FPS 		20006
58565.1 FPS
HDR 19601
71.1 Mpixels/sec 		15427
55.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 19671
344.6 Mpixels/sec 		13078
229.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 12989
111.1 Words/sec 		9955
85.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 18078
5.28 Msubwindows/sec 		15048
4.40 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6016
16.7 GB/sec 		4322
12.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5699
76.0 ns 		5306
12.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4920
26.3 GB/sec 		3218
17.2 GB/sec

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