Mac mini (Late 2018) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 5768 3660
Multi-Core Score 27060 12029
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.2.2

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G3020) macOS 10.13.4 (Build 17E199)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		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 6 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 12288 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.80.53.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.13050.0.0,0) Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D9.B00.1802021100
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 5768 3660
AES 3538
2.66 GB/sec 		3022
2.28 GB/sec
LZMA 5084
7.94 MB/sec 		3834
5.99 MB/sec
JPEG 5452
43.9 Mpixels/sec 		3948
31.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5079
70.4 Mpixels/sec 		3415
47.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5713
5.87 MB/sec 		2456
2.52 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7616
5.15 MTE/sec 		4250
2.88 MTE/sec
SQLite 4981
138.1 Krows/sec 		2945
81.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5279
24.0 MB/sec 		2944
13.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6390
5.79 MElements/sec 		4761
4.31 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4923
153.8 Mpixels/sec 		3308
103.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6708
178.2 Mpixels/sec 		3597
95.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9483
652.0 functions/sec 		5930
407.8 functions/sec
Camera 5667
15.7 images/sec 		3851
10.7 images/sec
SGEMM 6068
128.3 Gflops 		2056
43.5 Gflops
SFFT 6010
15.0 Gflops 		4059
10.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5533
4.13 Mpairs/sec 		3349
2.50 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5184
757.0 Kpixels/sec 		3086
450.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6463
18920.7 FPS 		4507
13194.3 FPS
HDR 6167
22.4 Mpixels/sec 		3697
13.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6342
111.1 Mpixels/sec 		3729
65.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6371
54.5 Words/sec 		4370
37.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5422
1.58 Msubwindows/sec 		3428
1.00 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5953
16.5 GB/sec 		3856
10.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5909
73.3 ns 		5415
79.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5408
28.9 GB/sec 		3114
16.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 27060 12029
AES 19082
14.4 GB/sec 		10668
8.03 GB/sec
LZMA 33356
52.1 MB/sec 		16443
25.7 MB/sec
JPEG 37694
303.3 Mpixels/sec 		19215
154.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 29535
409.6 Mpixels/sec 		15273
211.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 30745
31.6 MB/sec 		12125
12.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 29060
19.7 MTE/sec 		15917
10.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 28180
781.2 Krows/sec 		10363
287.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 29272
132.9 MB/sec 		12505
56.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 31782
28.8 MElements/sec 		12916
11.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 32688
1.02 Gpixels/sec 		13522
422.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 31411
834.5 Mpixels/sec 		12831
340.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 59676
4.10 Kfunctions/sec 		24870
1.71 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 37681
104.5 images/sec 		16774
46.5 images/sec
SGEMM 22960
485.3 Gflops 		6669
141.0 Gflops
SFFT 36524
91.1 Gflops 		13975
34.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 35013
26.1 Mpairs/sec 		13516
10.1 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 31414
4.59 Mpixels/sec 		12908
1.88 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 46466
136023.6 FPS 		19665
57566.6 FPS
HDR 35182
127.5 Mpixels/sec 		15018
54.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34309
601.0 Mpixels/sec 		12950
226.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 20933
179.1 Words/sec 		11652
99.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 37430
10.9 Msubwindows/sec 		14294
4.17 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7364
20.4 GB/sec 		4944
13.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5748
75.3 ns 		5735
75.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 6088
32.5 GB/sec 		3596
19.2 GB/sec

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