Mac mini (Mid 2011) vs MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Single-Core Score 2702 3707
Multi-Core Score 5426 12265
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System Information

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004) macOS 10.13.4 (Build 17E202)
Model Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-2860QM @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 3072 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E Macmini5,2 Apple Inc. Mac-942459F5819B171B MacBookPro8,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B14.1510261805 Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.004F.B00.1802022246
Memory 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Single-Core Score 2702 3707
AES 2077
1.56 GB/sec 		2823
2.13 GB/sec
LZMA 2149
3.36 MB/sec 		3752
5.86 MB/sec
JPEG 2852
23.0 Mpixels/sec 		3969
31.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2605
36.1 Mpixels/sec 		3311
45.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1951
2.01 MB/sec 		2596
2.67 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3146
2.13 MTE/sec 		4524
3.06 MTE/sec
SQLite 2205
61.2 Krows/sec 		2794
77.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2242
10.2 MB/sec 		2870
13.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3051
2.77 MElements/sec 		4524
4.10 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2509
78.4 Mpixels/sec 		3282
102.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2506
66.6 Mpixels/sec 		3635
96.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 2972
204.4 functions/sec 		5968
410.4 functions/sec
Camera 3037
8.42 images/sec 		3973
11.0 images/sec
SGEMM 1525
32.2 Gflops 		2088
44.1 Gflops
SFFT 3044
7.59 Gflops 		3798
9.47 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2170
1.62 Mpairs/sec 		2723
2.03 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2186
319.2 Kpixels/sec 		2913
425.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3528
10329.4 FPS 		4253
12450.4 FPS
HDR 2615
9.48 Mpixels/sec 		3391
12.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2693
47.2 Mpixels/sec 		3708
65.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2688
23.0 Words/sec 		4411
37.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 2754
804.7 Ksubwindows/sec 		3596
1.05 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2847
7.89 GB/sec 		4058
11.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5646
13.0 Moperations/sec 		7135
60.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2508
13.4 GB/sec 		3249
17.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Multi-Core Score 5426 12265
AES 4902
3.69 GB/sec 		11427
8.61 GB/sec
LZMA 6651
10.4 MB/sec 		16455
25.7 MB/sec
JPEG 8158
65.6 Mpixels/sec 		18588
149.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6727
93.3 Mpixels/sec 		14881
206.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5070
5.21 MB/sec 		11724
12.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8098
5.48 MTE/sec 		18020
12.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 4959
137.5 Krows/sec 		9686
268.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5126
23.3 MB/sec 		11602
52.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3194
2.89 MElements/sec 		15781
14.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5856
183.0 Mpixels/sec 		13548
423.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5914
157.1 Mpixels/sec 		13342
354.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6744
463.7 functions/sec 		24879
1.71 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7277
20.2 images/sec 		16683
46.3 images/sec
SGEMM 2915
61.6 Gflops 		6586
139.2 Gflops
SFFT 6487
16.2 Gflops 		14017
34.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4959
3.70 Mpairs/sec 		11280
8.42 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5623
821.2 Kpixels/sec 		12685
1.85 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 8609
25202.7 FPS 		19439
56904.8 FPS
HDR 6662
24.2 Mpixels/sec 		14691
53.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5845
102.4 Mpixels/sec 		12824
224.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5704
48.8 Words/sec 		13171
112.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 6563
1.92 Msubwindows/sec 		15378
4.49 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3388
9.39 GB/sec 		5267
14.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5639
13.0 Moperations/sec 		6692
64.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3042
16.2 GB/sec 		4542
24.3 GB/sec

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