Mac mini (Late 2018) vs MacBook Air (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 6006 3877
Multi-Core Score 27453 7802
Geekbench 4.3.2 Pro Geekbench 4.3.1 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B2107)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 12288 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.260.170.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.5125.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 220.220.105.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.1582.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 6006 3877
AES 3814
2.87 GB/sec 		2592
1.95 GB/sec
LZMA 5222
8.16 MB/sec 		3814
5.96 MB/sec
JPEG 5917
47.6 Mpixels/sec 		4539
36.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5500
76.3 Mpixels/sec 		3538
49.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5790
5.95 MB/sec 		3581
3.68 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7869
5.33 MTE/sec 		4138
2.80 MTE/sec
SQLite 5133
142.3 Krows/sec 		3849
106.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5432
24.7 MB/sec 		2957
13.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6462
5.85 MElements/sec 		4733
4.29 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5302
165.7 Mpixels/sec 		3700
115.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6727
178.7 Mpixels/sec 		4900
130.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9595
659.7 functions/sec 		5780
397.4 functions/sec
Camera 6120
17.0 images/sec 		3825
10.6 images/sec
SGEMM 6277
132.7 Gflops 		3889
82.2 Gflops
SFFT 6484
16.2 Gflops 		3733
9.31 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5320
3.97 Mpairs/sec 		3351
2.50 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5209
760.7 Kpixels/sec 		4056
592.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6436
18843.2 FPS 		5100
14931.1 FPS
HDR 6999
25.4 Mpixels/sec 		4994
18.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6395
112.0 Mpixels/sec 		4835
84.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6539
56.0 Words/sec 		3939
33.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 5609
1.64 Msubwindows/sec 		4378
1.28 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6102
16.9 GB/sec 		3515
9.74 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6460
67.0 ns 		2839
152.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5692
30.4 GB/sec 		3607
19.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 27453 7802
AES 17147
12.9 GB/sec 		8346
6.29 GB/sec
LZMA 33814
52.8 MB/sec 		7841
12.2 MB/sec
JPEG 40016
322.0 Mpixels/sec 		9428
75.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 30192
418.7 Mpixels/sec 		8540
118.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 30896
31.8 MB/sec 		7564
7.77 MB/sec
Dijkstra 28929
19.6 MTE/sec 		10485
7.10 MTE/sec
SQLite 29055
805.5 Krows/sec 		7250
201.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 33291
151.1 MB/sec 		7365
33.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 32732
29.7 MElements/sec 		9723
8.81 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 33278
1.04 Gpixels/sec 		7791
243.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 33403
887.4 Mpixels/sec 		10178
270.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 60646
4.17 Kfunctions/sec 		15288
1.05 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 38940
108.0 images/sec 		9676
26.8 images/sec
SGEMM 23144
489.2 Gflops 		7220
152.6 Gflops
SFFT 35266
87.9 Gflops 		8863
22.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 35629
26.6 Mpairs/sec 		8235
6.15 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 30593
4.47 Mpixels/sec 		8212
1.20 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 45308
132633.1 FPS 		11210
32816.6 FPS
HDR 38939
141.2 Mpixels/sec 		10203
37.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 33606
588.7 Mpixels/sec 		8121
142.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 20512
175.5 Words/sec 		6437
55.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 37246
10.9 Msubwindows/sec 		8495
2.48 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 7285
20.2 GB/sec 		4460
12.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5546
78.1 ns 		2724
158.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5916
31.6 GB/sec 		4773
25.5 GB/sec

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