MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs Mac mini (Late 2009)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 3323 1678
Multi-Core Score 11343 2863
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2009)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H2026) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G22010)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2009)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
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 3072 KB
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F22C86C8
BIOS Apple Inc. 429.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MM31.88Z.00AD.B00.0907171535
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 3323 1678
AES 2095
1.58 GB/sec 		104
80.3 MB/sec
LZMA 2745
4.29 MB/sec 		2424
3.79 MB/sec
JPEG 3469
27.9 Mpixels/sec 		2379
19.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3298
45.7 Mpixels/sec 		1894
26.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2410
2.48 MB/sec 		1806
1.86 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3780
2.56 MTE/sec 		2044
1.38 MTE/sec
SQLite 2553
70.8 Krows/sec 		1645
45.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2797
12.7 MB/sec 		1652
7.50 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4128
3.74 MElements/sec 		2341
2.12 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3063
95.7 Mpixels/sec 		1972
61.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4113
109.3 Mpixels/sec 		1581
42.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5363
368.7 functions/sec 		3708
255.0 functions/sec
Camera 3778
10.5 images/sec 		2102
5.83 images/sec
SGEMM 1862
39.4 Gflops 		652
13.8 Gflops
SFFT 3670
9.15 Gflops 		934
2.33 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2943
2.20 Mpairs/sec 		1092
816.2 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2778
405.8 Kpixels/sec 		1438
210.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4011
11741.8 FPS 		2292
6709.7 FPS
HDR 3352
12.2 Mpixels/sec 		2029
7.36 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3355
58.8 Mpixels/sec 		1085
19.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3978
34.0 Words/sec 		2097
17.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3199
934.4 Ksubwindows/sec 		2128
621.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3525
9.77 GB/sec 		1129
3.13 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4956
87.3 ns 		4018
107.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3037
16.2 GB/sec 		900
4.81 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2009)
Multi-Core Score 11343 2863
AES 9207
6.93 GB/sec 		204
157.8 MB/sec
LZMA 15159
23.7 MB/sec 		4389
6.86 MB/sec
JPEG 17891
144.0 Mpixels/sec 		4759
38.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13064
181.2 Mpixels/sec 		3396
47.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11513
11.8 MB/sec 		3583
3.68 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13701
9.27 MTE/sec 		3204
2.17 MTE/sec
SQLite 11450
317.4 Krows/sec 		3203
88.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12093
54.9 MB/sec 		3191
14.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10837
9.82 MElements/sec 		4632
4.20 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12882
402.5 Mpixels/sec 		3769
117.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14210
377.5 Mpixels/sec 		2464
65.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 21117
1.45 Kfunctions/sec 		7012
482.2 functions/sec
Camera 16612
46.1 images/sec 		4207
11.7 images/sec
SGEMM 6666
140.9 Gflops 		1289
27.3 Gflops
SFFT 14040
35.0 Gflops 		1867
4.66 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13162
9.83 Mpairs/sec 		2188
1.63 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12814
1.87 Mpixels/sec 		2811
410.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19785
57918.2 FPS 		4668
13665.9 FPS
HDR 14960
54.2 Mpixels/sec 		3734
13.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13031
228.3 Mpixels/sec 		2073
36.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9360
80.1 Words/sec 		2804
24.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 13002
3.80 Msubwindows/sec 		4238
1.24 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4615
12.8 GB/sec 		1207
3.34 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5086
85.1 ns 		3969
109.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3421
18.3 GB/sec 		917
4.90 GB/sec

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