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 5563 3707
Multi-Core Score 23946 12367
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 20A5343i) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G103)
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. 1554.0.0.141.1 (iBridge: 18.16.10347.5.3,0) Apple Inc. 233.0.0.0.0
Memory 64.00 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 5563 3707
AES 4595
3.46 GB/sec 		3018
2.27 GB/sec
LZMA 4729
7.39 MB/sec 		3946
6.16 MB/sec
JPEG 5161
41.5 Mpixels/sec 		4065
32.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4757
66.0 Mpixels/sec 		3427
47.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5255
5.40 MB/sec 		2666
2.74 MB/sec
Dijkstra 6717
4.55 MTE/sec 		4253
2.88 MTE/sec
SQLite 4716
130.8 Krows/sec 		2945
81.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5285
24.0 MB/sec 		3203
14.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5910
5.36 MElements/sec 		4784
4.33 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4849
151.5 Mpixels/sec 		3392
106.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6209
165.0 Mpixels/sec 		4355
115.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8817
606.3 functions/sec 		6041
415.4 functions/sec
Camera 5492
15.2 images/sec 		4091
11.3 images/sec
SGEMM 5730
121.1 Gflops 		2114
44.7 Gflops
SFFT 5946
14.8 Gflops 		4051
10.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5105
3.81 Mpairs/sec 		3267
2.44 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4881
712.8 Kpixels/sec 		3202
467.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6005
17579.9 FPS 		4493
13153.7 FPS
HDR 6424
23.3 Mpixels/sec 		3799
13.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5903
103.4 Mpixels/sec 		3828
67.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5938
50.8 Words/sec 		4375
37.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 5215
1.52 Msubwindows/sec 		3610
1.05 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5805
16.1 GB/sec 		3546
9.83 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5870
73.8 ns 		5418
79.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5306
28.3 GB/sec 		2860
15.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 23946 12367
AES 18029
13.6 GB/sec 		9986
7.52 GB/sec
LZMA 33711
52.7 MB/sec 		16402
25.6 MB/sec
JPEG 36922
297.1 Mpixels/sec 		19525
157.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 28009
388.4 Mpixels/sec 		14701
203.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 28010
28.8 MB/sec 		12316
12.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 23281
15.8 MTE/sec 		13661
9.24 MTE/sec
SQLite 11656
323.1 Krows/sec 		12724
352.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 30500
138.5 MB/sec 		13102
59.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 29944
27.1 MElements/sec 		11484
10.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 31684
990.0 Mpixels/sec 		14420
450.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 30831
819.1 Mpixels/sec 		14435
383.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 21972
1.51 Kfunctions/sec 		26385
1.81 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 38003
105.4 images/sec 		18018
50.0 images/sec
SGEMM 21980
464.6 Gflops 		7383
156.1 Gflops
SFFT 35603
88.8 Gflops 		15579
38.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 33176
24.8 Mpairs/sec 		14538
10.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 26208
3.83 Mpixels/sec 		14214
2.08 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 45391
132877.5 FPS 		21179
62000.0 FPS
HDR 37661
136.5 Mpixels/sec 		15800
57.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 32072
561.8 Mpixels/sec 		14809
259.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 20146
172.4 Words/sec 		10476
89.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 37024
10.8 Msubwindows/sec 		15779
4.61 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7237
20.0 GB/sec 		4276
11.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5792
74.7 ns 		5724
75.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5990
32.0 GB/sec 		3290
17.6 GB/sec

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