Mac Pro (Early 2008) vs Mac mini (Late 2012)

Geekbench Scores

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 1804 3712
Multi-Core Score 5159 12506
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System Information

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31) macOS 10.13.1 (Build 17B48)
Model Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 6144 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1 Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.010B.B00.1708080649
Memory 8.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 1804 3712
AES 115
89.2 MB/sec 		3051
2.30 GB/sec
LZMA 2808
4.39 MB/sec 		3850
6.01 MB/sec
JPEG 2654
21.4 Mpixels/sec 		3931
31.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 1997
27.7 Mpixels/sec 		3461
48.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2000
2.06 MB/sec 		2648
2.72 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2371
1.60 MTE/sec 		4138
2.80 MTE/sec
SQLite 1772
49.1 Krows/sec 		2991
82.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1908
8.67 MB/sec 		2965
13.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 2567
2.33 MElements/sec 		4806
4.35 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2220
69.4 Mpixels/sec 		3332
104.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2141
56.9 Mpixels/sec 		3817
101.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4210
289.5 functions/sec 		5991
412.0 functions/sec
Camera 2358
6.54 images/sec 		4122
11.4 images/sec
SGEMM 732
15.5 Gflops 		2118
44.8 Gflops
SFFT 997
2.49 Gflops 		4036
10.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1246
931.2 Kpairs/sec 		3367
2.51 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1610
235.2 Kpixels/sec 		3178
464.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2589
7579.2 FPS 		4528
13255.4 FPS
HDR 2255
8.18 Mpixels/sec 		3781
13.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1217
21.3 Mpixels/sec 		3810
66.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3037
26.0 Words/sec 		4280
36.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 2379
694.9 Ksubwindows/sec 		3608
1.05 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 803
2.23 GB/sec 		3914
10.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3647
118.7 ns 		5317
81.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 707
3.78 GB/sec 		3131
16.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 5159 12506
AES 453
349.7 MB/sec 		11267
8.48 GB/sec
LZMA 9509
14.9 MB/sec 		16751
26.2 MB/sec
JPEG 10145
81.6 Mpixels/sec 		19492
156.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4550
63.1 Mpixels/sec 		15312
212.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7245
7.45 MB/sec 		12047
12.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4271
2.89 MTE/sec 		15882
10.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 6364
176.4 Krows/sec 		10552
292.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6792
30.8 MB/sec 		12304
55.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9531
8.64 MElements/sec 		12754
11.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 8352
261.0 Mpixels/sec 		13729
429.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4919
130.7 Mpixels/sec 		13708
364.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 15024
1.03 Kfunctions/sec 		26307
1.81 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8593
23.8 images/sec 		18334
50.8 images/sec
SGEMM 2538
53.6 Gflops 		7385
156.1 Gflops
SFFT 3851
9.60 Gflops 		15597
38.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4843
3.62 Mpairs/sec 		14391
10.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5586
815.7 Kpixels/sec 		14087
2.06 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9745
28527.7 FPS 		21524
63010.7 FPS
HDR 6176
22.4 Mpixels/sec 		16143
58.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4242
74.3 Mpixels/sec 		14560
255.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3881
33.2 Words/sec 		11456
98.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 9363
2.73 Msubwindows/sec 		15912
4.65 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 883
2.45 GB/sec 		4868
13.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2958
146.3 ns 		5570
77.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 676
3.61 GB/sec 		3541
18.9 GB/sec

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