Mac mini (Mid 2011) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 2930 6019
Multi-Core Score 9421 27577
Geekbench 4.4.3 Tryout Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132)
Model Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-2635QM @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 6144 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2794B2CDB12 Macmini5,3 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 135.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.260.170.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.5125.0.0,0)
Memory 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 2930 6019
AES 2326
1.75 GB/sec 		3920
2.95 GB/sec
LZMA 3019
4.72 MB/sec 		5249
8.20 MB/sec
JPEG 3216
25.9 Mpixels/sec 		5827
46.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2791
38.7 Mpixels/sec 		5443
75.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1972
2.03 MB/sec 		5842
6.00 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3481
2.36 MTE/sec 		7873
5.33 MTE/sec
SQLite 2275
63.1 Krows/sec 		5164
143.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2434
11.1 MB/sec 		5783
26.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3592
3.25 MElements/sec 		6575
5.96 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2625
82.0 Mpixels/sec 		5305
165.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3294
87.5 Mpixels/sec 		6974
185.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4682
321.9 functions/sec 		9695
666.6 functions/sec
Camera 3165
8.78 images/sec 		6112
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 1543
32.6 Gflops 		6286
132.9 Gflops
SFFT 3063
7.64 Gflops 		6525
16.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2229
1.66 Mpairs/sec 		5589
4.17 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2279
332.8 Kpixels/sec 		5184
757.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3471
10163.1 FPS 		6480
18971.8 FPS
HDR 2747
9.96 Mpixels/sec 		6905
25.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3007
52.7 Mpixels/sec 		6372
111.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3391
29.0 Words/sec 		6654
56.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 2901
847.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		5600
1.64 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2811
7.79 GB/sec 		5947
16.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5735
75.5 ns 		6487
66.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2414
12.9 GB/sec 		5359
28.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 9421 27577
AES 8409
6.33 GB/sec 		17263
13.0 GB/sec
LZMA 12552
19.6 MB/sec 		34014
53.1 MB/sec
JPEG 14577
117.3 Mpixels/sec 		40781
328.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 11437
158.6 Mpixels/sec 		30005
416.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 9433
9.69 MB/sec 		31240
32.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 12229
8.28 MTE/sec 		27169
18.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 9378
260.0 Krows/sec 		30597
848.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 9741
44.2 MB/sec 		33259
151.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7876
7.14 MElements/sec 		32630
29.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 10900
340.6 Mpixels/sec 		33082
1.03 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 11419
303.4 Mpixels/sec 		34439
914.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 19290
1.33 Kfunctions/sec 		62553
4.30 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 13142
36.4 images/sec 		40541
112.4 images/sec
SGEMM 5030
106.3 Gflops 		21726
459.2 Gflops
SFFT 11462
28.6 Gflops 		36282
90.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8872
6.63 Mpairs/sec 		35411
26.4 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 10138
1.48 Mpixels/sec 		31690
4.63 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 15733
46056.8 FPS 		45914
134407.9 FPS
HDR 11399
41.3 Mpixels/sec 		37747
136.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10874
190.5 Mpixels/sec 		33729
590.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9312
79.7 Words/sec 		19966
170.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 12033
3.51 Msubwindows/sec 		37235
10.9 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3533
9.79 GB/sec 		7087
19.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5475
79.1 ns 		6328
68.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2997
16.0 GB/sec 		5646
30.2 GB/sec

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