Mac mini (Mid 2011) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 2353 2617
Multi-Core Score 4676 5228
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System Information

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G22010) Mac OS X 10.12 (Build 16A313a)
Model Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1 Macmini5,1 Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0080.B00.1804091930 Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0166.B12.1602221953
Memory 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 2353 2617
AES 1681
1.27 GB/sec 		2125
1.60 GB/sec
LZMA 2172
3.39 MB/sec 		2215
3.46 MB/sec
JPEG 2695
21.7 Mpixels/sec 		2739
22.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2150
29.8 Mpixels/sec 		2550
35.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1642
1.69 MB/sec 		2455
2.52 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2834
1.92 MTE/sec 		2837
1.92 MTE/sec
SQLite 1737
48.2 Krows/sec 		2216
61.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1649
7.49 MB/sec 		2290
10.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3269
2.96 MElements/sec 		2184
1.98 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2141
66.9 Mpixels/sec 		2290
71.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 1953
51.9 Mpixels/sec 		2241
59.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3900
268.2 functions/sec 		2790
191.8 functions/sec
Camera 2753
7.63 images/sec 		2998
8.31 images/sec
SGEMM 1438
30.4 Gflops 		2504
52.9 Gflops
SFFT 2668
6.65 Gflops 		2751
6.86 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2100
1.57 Mpairs/sec 		2422
1.81 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2021
295.1 Kpixels/sec 		2435
355.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3094
9058.7 FPS 		3229
9453.9 FPS
HDR 2305
8.36 Mpixels/sec 		2773
10.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2498
43.8 Mpixels/sec 		2473
43.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2081
17.8 Words/sec 		2233
19.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 2486
726.3 Ksubwindows/sec 		2699
788.5 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2479
6.87 GB/sec 		2518
6.98 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5235
82.7 ns 		4613
10.7 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 1587
8.48 GB/sec 		2570
13.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 4676 5228
AES 3556
2.68 GB/sec 		4501
3.39 GB/sec
LZMA 4666
7.29 MB/sec 		5941
9.28 MB/sec
JPEG 5679
45.7 Mpixels/sec 		7160
57.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5537
76.8 Mpixels/sec 		6407
88.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3619
3.72 MB/sec 		5038
5.18 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7041
4.76 MTE/sec 		5330
3.61 MTE/sec
SQLite 4468
123.9 Krows/sec 		4645
128.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4330
19.7 MB/sec 		4965
22.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4612
4.18 MElements/sec 		3409
3.09 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5140
160.6 Mpixels/sec 		5665
177.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4947
131.4 Mpixels/sec 		5524
146.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8995
618.5 functions/sec 		6164
423.9 functions/sec
Camera 6466
17.9 images/sec 		7255
20.1 images/sec
SGEMM 2062
43.6 Gflops 		4415
93.3 Gflops
SFFT 5309
13.2 Gflops 		6237
15.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4237
3.16 Mpairs/sec 		6339
4.73 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4983
727.8 Kpixels/sec 		5844
853.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7948
23267.3 FPS 		8480
24824.9 FPS
HDR 5627
20.4 Mpixels/sec 		7252
26.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5045
88.4 Mpixels/sec 		5707
100.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4707
40.3 Words/sec 		4698
40.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4360
1.27 Msubwindows/sec 		6511
1.90 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2981
8.26 GB/sec 		3239
8.98 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5284
81.9 ns 		4404
10.2 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2833
15.1 GB/sec 		3024
16.1 GB/sec

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