M4 MacBook Air vs Mac mini (Late 2012)

Geekbench Scores

M4 MacBook Air Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 8255 3219
Multi-Core Score 36361 6139
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System Information

M4 MacBook Air Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System macOS 15.5 (Build 24F74) macOS 10.13.1 (Build 17B35a)
Model Mac16,12 Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor VirtualApple @ 2.50GHz @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 10 Cores 		Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 0 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 128 KB x 10 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 128 KB x 10 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 8192 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Mac16,12 Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.010B.B00.1708080649
Memory 16.00 GB 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

M4 MacBook Air Mac mini (Late 2012)
Single-Core Score 8255 3219
AES 6927
5.22 GB/sec 		2439
1.84 GB/sec
LZMA 6846
10.7 MB/sec 		3129
4.89 MB/sec
JPEG 8272
66.6 Mpixels/sec 		3477
28.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7935
110.0 Mpixels/sec 		2998
41.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 8003
8.23 MB/sec 		2301
2.36 MB/sec
Dijkstra 11649
7.88 MTE/sec 		3625
2.45 MTE/sec
SQLite 6992
193.9 Krows/sec 		2487
69.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 7883
35.8 MB/sec 		2579
11.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10685
9.68 MElements/sec 		4127
3.74 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 8160
255.0 Mpixels/sec 		2789
87.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12114
321.8 Mpixels/sec 		2951
78.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 17427
1.20 Kfunctions/sec 		5035
346.2 functions/sec
Camera 6828
18.9 images/sec 		3475
9.64 images/sec
SGEMM 2894
61.2 Gflops 		1758
37.2 Gflops
SFFT 5565
13.9 Gflops 		3458
8.62 Gflops
N-Body Physics 9498
7.09 Mpairs/sec 		2912
2.18 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7083
1.03 Mpixels/sec 		2655
387.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9652
28256.9 FPS 		3798
11119.5 FPS
HDR 10762
39.0 Mpixels/sec 		3237
11.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8427
147.6 Mpixels/sec 		3269
57.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9354
80.0 Words/sec 		3106
26.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 9352
2.73 Msubwindows/sec 		3120
911.5 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 9130
25.3 GB/sec 		3739
10.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4870
88.9 ns 		5397
80.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 10981
58.6 GB/sec 		2915
15.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

M4 MacBook Air Mac mini (Late 2012)
Multi-Core Score 36361 6139
AES 31707
23.9 GB/sec 		5089
3.83 GB/sec
LZMA 39908
62.3 MB/sec 		7133
11.1 MB/sec
JPEG 47721
384.0 Mpixels/sec 		8234
66.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 45230
627.2 Mpixels/sec 		7202
99.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 44017
45.2 MB/sec 		5282
5.43 MB/sec
Dijkstra 45436
30.7 MTE/sec 		8579
5.81 MTE/sec
SQLite 39968
1.11 Mrows/sec 		5351
148.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 45017
204.4 MB/sec 		5307
24.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 60433
54.8 MElements/sec 		6834
6.19 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 37835
1.18 Gpixels/sec 		6014
187.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 63875
1.70 Gpixels/sec 		6428
170.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 102268
7.03 Kfunctions/sec 		11346
780.1 functions/sec
Camera 42148
116.9 images/sec 		7972
22.1 images/sec
SGEMM 15310
323.6 Gflops 		3216
68.0 Gflops
SFFT 29088
72.5 Gflops 		6633
16.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 49399
36.9 Mpairs/sec 		6082
4.54 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 23631
3.45 Mpixels/sec 		6041
882.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 51638
151162.6 FPS 		9224
27003.6 FPS
HDR 56695
205.5 Mpixels/sec 		7380
26.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 41456
726.2 Mpixels/sec 		6177
108.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 41916
358.6 Words/sec 		6273
53.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 42650
12.5 Msubwindows/sec 		6787
1.98 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 12633
35.0 GB/sec 		4540
12.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4744
91.2 ns 		5494
78.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 11485
61.3 GB/sec 		3462
18.5 GB/sec

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