Mac mini (Mid 2011) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 2877 3930
Multi-Core Score 5517 12516
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System Information

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G12034) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4770HQ @ 2.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
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 3072 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E Macmini5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 135.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 2877 3930
AES 2319
1.75 GB/sec 		3257
2.45 GB/sec
LZMA 2676
4.18 MB/sec 		3783
5.91 MB/sec
JPEG 3109
25.0 Mpixels/sec 		3999
32.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2839
39.4 Mpixels/sec 		3687
51.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2021
2.08 MB/sec 		3769
3.87 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3181
2.15 MTE/sec 		4151
2.81 MTE/sec
SQLite 2252
62.5 Krows/sec 		3574
99.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2334
10.6 MB/sec 		3305
15.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3673
3.33 MElements/sec 		4603
4.17 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2556
79.9 Mpixels/sec 		3508
109.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2751
73.1 Mpixels/sec 		3788
100.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4503
309.6 functions/sec 		6641
456.6 functions/sec
Camera 3262
9.05 images/sec 		4075
11.3 images/sec
SGEMM 1632
34.5 Gflops 		3222
68.1 Gflops
SFFT 3099
7.73 Gflops 		3791
9.45 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2359
1.76 Mpairs/sec 		3374
2.52 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2387
348.6 Kpixels/sec 		3010
439.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3446
10090.6 FPS 		4066
11905.0 FPS
HDR 2715
9.84 Mpixels/sec 		3654
13.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2853
50.0 Mpixels/sec 		3793
66.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2660
22.8 Words/sec 		4160
35.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 2822
824.4 Ksubwindows/sec 		3760
1.10 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2833
7.85 GB/sec 		3684
10.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5656
76.5 ns 		5134
84.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2552
13.6 GB/sec 		4442
23.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 5517 12516
AES 4834
3.64 GB/sec 		11059
8.33 GB/sec
LZMA 6550
10.2 MB/sec 		13781
21.5 MB/sec
JPEG 7993
64.3 Mpixels/sec 		16956
136.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6605
91.6 Mpixels/sec 		14554
201.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4860
5.00 MB/sec 		12148
12.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7986
5.40 MTE/sec 		21804
14.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 4771
132.3 Krows/sec 		9641
267.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5017
22.8 MB/sec 		11968
54.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5254
4.76 MElements/sec 		16943
15.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5836
182.4 Mpixels/sec 		13688
427.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5791
153.9 Mpixels/sec 		13747
365.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10185
700.3 functions/sec 		25360
1.74 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7182
19.9 images/sec 		16345
45.3 images/sec
SGEMM 2979
63.0 Gflops 		9762
206.4 Gflops
SFFT 6089
15.2 Gflops 		13856
34.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4829
3.61 Mpairs/sec 		13072
9.76 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5456
796.8 Kpixels/sec 		12145
1.77 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 8537
24991.6 FPS 		18126
53062.3 FPS
HDR 6376
23.1 Mpixels/sec 		15646
56.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5863
102.7 Mpixels/sec 		14488
253.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5378
46.0 Words/sec 		15479
132.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 6420
1.88 Msubwindows/sec 		14751
4.31 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3269
9.06 GB/sec 		5063
14.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5460
79.3 ns 		5228
82.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2957
15.8 GB/sec 		4626
24.7 GB/sec

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