Mac mini (Late 2012) vs Mac mini (Late 2014)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Single-Core Score 2764 3541
Multi-Core Score 11315 6853
Geekbench 4.4.3 Tryout Geekbench 4.2.3 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31) macOS 10.14 (Build 18A314k)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 286.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MM71.88Z.0232.B00.1806051659
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Single-Core Score 2764 3541
AES 2829
2.13 GB/sec 		3005
2.26 GB/sec
LZMA 3238
5.06 MB/sec 		3427
5.35 MB/sec
JPEG 3688
29.7 Mpixels/sec 		3719
29.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3223
44.7 Mpixels/sec 		3291
45.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2386
2.45 MB/sec 		3523
3.62 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3663
2.48 MTE/sec 		3435
2.32 MTE/sec
SQLite 2702
74.9 Krows/sec 		3002
83.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2691
12.2 MB/sec 		3307
15.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4359
3.95 MElements/sec 		4057
3.68 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3096
96.7 Mpixels/sec 		3275
102.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3475
92.3 Mpixels/sec 		3398
90.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5155
354.5 functions/sec 		5943
408.7 functions/sec
Camera 3575
9.91 images/sec 		3709
10.3 images/sec
SGEMM 1902
40.2 Gflops 		2954
62.5 Gflops
SFFT 3600
8.98 Gflops 		3465
8.64 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3048
2.28 Mpairs/sec 		3160
2.36 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1442
210.6 Kpixels/sec 		2816
411.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2223
6510.4 FPS 		3776
11053.8 FPS
HDR 1972
7.15 Mpixels/sec 		3468
12.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1725
30.2 Mpixels/sec 		3569
62.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 1309
11.2 Words/sec 		3173
27.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 1867
545.4 Ksubwindows/sec 		3462
1.01 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1793
4.97 GB/sec 		3285
9.10 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3398
127.4 ns 		5491
78.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2609
13.9 GB/sec 		3200
17.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2014)
Multi-Core Score 11315 6853
AES 7685
5.79 GB/sec 		6288
4.74 GB/sec
LZMA 14661
22.9 MB/sec 		7770
12.1 MB/sec
JPEG 18788
151.2 Mpixels/sec 		9354
75.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14317
198.5 Mpixels/sec 		7816
108.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12045
12.4 MB/sec 		6692
6.88 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13672
9.25 MTE/sec 		8590
5.81 MTE/sec
SQLite 9810
272.0 Krows/sec 		5989
166.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12314
55.9 MB/sec 		6726
30.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10843
9.82 MElements/sec 		6380
5.78 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13615
425.4 Mpixels/sec 		7399
231.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12671
336.6 Mpixels/sec 		7275
193.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 22824
1.57 Kfunctions/sec 		13701
942.0 functions/sec
Camera 15635
43.4 images/sec 		9169
25.4 images/sec
SGEMM 6159
130.2 Gflops 		5396
114.1 Gflops
SFFT 14332
35.7 Gflops 		7376
18.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13485
10.1 Mpairs/sec 		7025
5.25 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13194
1.93 Mpixels/sec 		6510
950.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20669
60506.6 FPS 		9465
27707.7 FPS
HDR 14953
54.2 Mpixels/sec 		8341
30.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13878
243.1 Mpixels/sec 		7625
133.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9795
83.8 Words/sec 		5803
49.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 14822
4.33 Msubwindows/sec 		7976
2.33 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4138
11.5 GB/sec 		4093
11.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5171
83.7 ns 		5365
80.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3075
16.4 GB/sec 		3395
18.1 GB/sec

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