Mac mini (Late 2012) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3699 6029
Multi-Core Score 12330 27591
Geekbench 4.2.2 Tryout Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.13.3 (Build 17D102) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 6144 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.010B.B00.1708080649 Apple Inc. 220.270.99.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6571.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3699 6029
AES 3036
2.29 GB/sec 		4943
3.72 GB/sec
LZMA 3872
6.05 MB/sec 		5253
8.20 MB/sec
JPEG 4058
32.7 Mpixels/sec 		5945
47.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3493
48.5 Mpixels/sec 		5503
76.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2658
2.73 MB/sec 		5701
5.86 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4125
2.79 MTE/sec 		8081
5.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 2873
79.6 Krows/sec 		5157
143.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2875
13.1 MB/sec 		5750
26.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4772
4.32 MElements/sec 		6505
5.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3331
104.1 Mpixels/sec 		5296
165.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3822
101.5 Mpixels/sec 		6903
183.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6081
418.1 functions/sec 		9754
670.7 functions/sec
Camera 4113
11.4 images/sec 		6097
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 2117
44.8 Gflops 		6300
133.2 Gflops
SFFT 4011
10.00 Gflops 		6440
16.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3379
2.52 Mpairs/sec 		5669
4.23 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3171
463.2 Kpixels/sec 		5205
760.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4515
13219.5 FPS 		6511
19061.8 FPS
HDR 3792
13.7 Mpixels/sec 		6994
25.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3810
66.8 Mpixels/sec 		6427
112.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4371
37.4 Words/sec 		6705
57.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3629
1.06 Msubwindows/sec 		5731
1.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3871
10.7 GB/sec 		5875
16.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5348
80.9 ns 		5884
73.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3004
16.0 GB/sec 		5171
27.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 12330 27591
AES 10667
8.03 GB/sec 		17113
12.9 GB/sec
LZMA 16058
25.1 MB/sec 		34149
53.3 MB/sec
JPEG 19153
154.1 Mpixels/sec 		41054
330.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15215
211.0 Mpixels/sec 		29293
406.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12408
12.8 MB/sec 		31575
32.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15274
10.3 MTE/sec 		26842
18.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 10682
296.2 Krows/sec 		30355
841.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12024
54.6 MB/sec 		33610
152.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12798
11.6 MElements/sec 		32594
29.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13851
432.8 Mpixels/sec 		33414
1.04 Gpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13560
360.3 Mpixels/sec 		35354
939.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 26275
1.81 Kfunctions/sec 		62317
4.28 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17930
49.7 images/sec 		40956
113.6 images/sec
SGEMM 7406
156.6 Gflops 		21749
459.7 Gflops
SFFT 15638
39.0 Gflops 		36330
90.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12201
9.11 Mpairs/sec 		35996
26.9 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14264
2.08 Mpixels/sec 		31622
4.62 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21458
62816.6 FPS 		47098
137874.8 FPS
HDR 15952
57.8 Mpixels/sec 		38064
138.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14569
255.2 Mpixels/sec 		33984
595.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11512
98.5 Words/sec 		19587
167.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 15976
4.67 Msubwindows/sec 		37404
10.9 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4850
13.4 GB/sec 		6796
18.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5379
80.5 ns 		5729
75.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3520
18.8 GB/sec 		5580
29.8 GB/sec

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