Mac mini (Late 2012) vs MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009)
Single-Core Score 2970 1811
Multi-Core Score 9813 1771
Geekbench 4.0.0 Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004) macOS 13.6.1 (Build 22G313)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 @ 2.66 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 6144 KB
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-F2268EC8
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0A.1509111654 Apple Inc. MBP52.88Z.008E.B05.0905042202
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009)
Single-Core Score 2970 1811
AES 2635
1.99 GB/sec 		110
85.4 MB/sec
LZMA 3120
4.87 MB/sec 		2695
4.21 MB/sec
JPEG 3427
27.6 Mpixels/sec 		2559
20.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3037
42.1 Mpixels/sec 		2031
28.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2132
2.19 MB/sec 		2023
2.08 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3291
2.23 MTE/sec 		2462
1.67 MTE/sec
SQLite 2335
64.7 Krows/sec 		1286
35.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2386
10.8 MB/sec 		1642
7.46 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3163
2.87 MElements/sec 		2652
2.40 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2609
81.5 Mpixels/sec 		1852
57.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3012
80.0 Mpixels/sec 		2504
66.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3165
217.7 functions/sec 		4200
288.8 functions/sec
Camera 3435
9.53 images/sec 		2290
6.35 images/sec
SGEMM 1717
36.3 Gflops 		696
14.7 Gflops
SFFT 3226
8.04 Gflops 		987
2.46 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2646
1.98 Mpairs/sec 		1169
873.7 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2662
388.8 Kpixels/sec 		1486
217.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3540
10365.2 FPS 		2459
7198.5 FPS
HDR 3048
11.0 Mpixels/sec 		2130
7.72 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2966
52.0 Mpixels/sec 		1169
20.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3080
26.4 Words/sec 		2975
25.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 2809
820.7 Ksubwindows/sec 		2235
652.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3299
9.14 GB/sec 		1188
3.29 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4951
11.4 Moperations/sec 		4152
104.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2574
13.7 GB/sec 		900
4.81 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009)
Multi-Core Score 9813 1771
AES 8057
6.07 GB/sec 		109
84.1 MB/sec
LZMA 13537
21.1 MB/sec 		2580
4.03 MB/sec
JPEG 16920
136.1 Mpixels/sec 		2497
20.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 12971
179.9 Mpixels/sec 		2033
28.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 10244
10.5 MB/sec 		1925
1.98 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13555
9.17 MTE/sec 		2291
1.55 MTE/sec
SQLite 5049
140.0 Krows/sec 		1692
46.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 10467
47.5 MB/sec 		1971
8.95 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6824
6.18 MElements/sec 		2716
2.46 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12416
388.0 Mpixels/sec 		2163
67.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 11565
307.2 Mpixels/sec 		2271
60.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9849
677.2 functions/sec 		4047
278.3 functions/sec
Camera 15738
43.6 images/sec 		2330
6.46 images/sec
SGEMM 5410
114.4 Gflops 		668
14.1 Gflops
SFFT 13350
33.3 Gflops 		926
2.31 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12330
9.21 Mpairs/sec 		949
709.3 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12503
1.83 Mpixels/sec 		1380
201.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18466
54057.2 FPS 		1995
5840.3 FPS
HDR 14469
52.5 Mpixels/sec 		2077
7.53 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12492
218.8 Mpixels/sec 		1160
20.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10314
88.2 Words/sec 		2774
23.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 13551
3.96 Msubwindows/sec 		3148
919.7 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4272
11.8 GB/sec 		1157
3.21 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5294
12.2 Moperations/sec 		2583
167.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3230
17.2 GB/sec 		905
4.83 GB/sec

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