Mac mini (Late 2018) vs MacBook (Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook (Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4865 3468
Multi-Core Score 19501 6804
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook (Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook (Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-8500B @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores 		Intel Core i5-7Y54 @ 1.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 3 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 3 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 3 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 9216 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-EE2EBD4B90B839A8 MacBook10,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.120.87.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.15300.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 173.0.0.0.0
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook (Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4865 3468
AES 3165
2.38 GB/sec 		2476
1.87 GB/sec
LZMA 3726
5.82 MB/sec 		2867
4.48 MB/sec
JPEG 4991
40.2 Mpixels/sec 		3388
27.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4208
58.4 Mpixels/sec 		3330
46.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4632
4.76 MB/sec 		3351
3.44 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5616
3.80 MTE/sec 		3717
2.52 MTE/sec
SQLite 4229
117.3 Krows/sec 		3001
83.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4491
20.4 MB/sec 		3075
14.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5334
4.83 MElements/sec 		4090
3.71 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4368
136.5 Mpixels/sec 		3435
107.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5601
148.8 Mpixels/sec 		4333
115.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7795
535.9 functions/sec 		5631
387.2 functions/sec
Camera 4991
13.8 images/sec 		3791
10.5 images/sec
SGEMM 5310
112.3 Gflops 		3841
81.2 Gflops
SFFT 5312
13.2 Gflops 		4102
10.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4714
3.52 Mpairs/sec 		3330
2.49 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4375
639.0 Kpixels/sec 		3185
465.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5492
16077.9 FPS 		4065
11901.6 FPS
HDR 5318
19.3 Mpixels/sec 		4355
15.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5362
93.9 Mpixels/sec 		3447
60.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5094
43.6 Words/sec 		3240
27.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 4753
1.39 Msubwindows/sec 		3277
957.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4580
12.7 GB/sec 		2970
8.23 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6050
71.6 ns 		3399
127.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4207
22.5 GB/sec 		3160
16.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook (Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 19501 6804
AES 11013
8.29 GB/sec 		6909
5.20 GB/sec
LZMA 19998
31.2 MB/sec 		6910
10.8 MB/sec
JPEG 23673
190.5 Mpixels/sec 		8285
66.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 21070
292.2 Mpixels/sec 		7463
103.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 24043
24.7 MB/sec 		6486
6.67 MB/sec
Dijkstra 18261
12.4 MTE/sec 		8469
5.73 MTE/sec
SQLite 23686
656.6 Krows/sec 		6138
170.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 26040
118.2 MB/sec 		6366
28.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 25822
23.4 MElements/sec 		8119
7.36 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 20918
653.6 Mpixels/sec 		6877
214.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 23039
612.1 Mpixels/sec 		8667
230.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 41541
2.86 Kfunctions/sec 		12835
882.5 functions/sec
Camera 28196
78.2 images/sec 		8936
24.8 images/sec
SGEMM 13695
289.5 Gflops 		6221
131.5 Gflops
SFFT 31536
78.6 Gflops 		7788
19.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 26835
20.0 Mpairs/sec 		7122
5.32 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 20329
2.97 Mpixels/sec 		7266
1.06 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 30060
87998.6 FPS 		10201
29862.9 FPS
HDR 24630
89.3 Mpixels/sec 		9111
33.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 30824
540.0 Mpixels/sec 		7796
136.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 14627
125.1 Words/sec 		5795
49.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 28361
8.28 Msubwindows/sec 		7582
2.21 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5030
13.9 GB/sec 		3614
10.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6257
69.2 ns 		2930
147.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4173
22.3 GB/sec 		3763
20.1 GB/sec

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