Mac mini (Late 2012) vs Mac Pro (Early 2008)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Single-Core Score 3222 1900
Multi-Core Score 11686 10225
Geekbench 4.4.2 Geekbench 4.2.3 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G2136) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G21013)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 6144 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1
BIOS Apple Inc. 280.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Single-Core Score 3222 1900
AES 2852
2.15 GB/sec 		116
89.8 MB/sec
LZMA 2578
4.03 MB/sec 		2825
4.41 MB/sec
JPEG 3368
27.1 Mpixels/sec 		2717
21.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2901
40.2 Mpixels/sec 		2093
29.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2280
2.34 MB/sec 		2091
2.15 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3327
2.25 MTE/sec 		2494
1.69 MTE/sec
SQLite 2692
74.6 Krows/sec 		1854
51.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2595
11.8 MB/sec 		1834
8.33 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4201
3.81 MElements/sec 		2608
2.36 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2935
91.7 Mpixels/sec 		2187
68.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3136
83.3 Mpixels/sec 		2258
60.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4601
316.4 functions/sec 		4250
292.3 functions/sec
Camera 3674
10.2 images/sec 		2424
6.72 images/sec
SGEMM 1681
35.5 Gflops 		737
15.6 Gflops
SFFT 3183
7.94 Gflops 		994
2.48 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2785
2.08 Mpairs/sec 		1227
916.7 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2556
373.3 Kpixels/sec 		1608
234.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3985
11666.4 FPS 		2607
7633.2 FPS
HDR 3260
11.8 Mpixels/sec 		2307
8.37 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3231
56.6 Mpixels/sec 		1218
21.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3997
34.2 Words/sec 		3149
27.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 3586
1.05 Msubwindows/sec 		2371
692.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3683
10.2 GB/sec 		1095
3.04 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5309
81.6 ns 		4102
105.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2778
14.8 GB/sec 		950
5.08 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Multi-Core Score 11686 10225
AES 8924
6.72 GB/sec 		921
710.4 MB/sec
LZMA 15572
24.3 MB/sec 		19843
31.0 MB/sec
JPEG 18894
152.0 Mpixels/sec 		20492
164.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14762
204.7 Mpixels/sec 		10979
152.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11735
12.1 MB/sec 		14177
14.6 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15348
10.4 MTE/sec 		11517
7.79 MTE/sec
SQLite 8167
226.4 Krows/sec 		6015
166.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12107
55.0 MB/sec 		11054
50.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12185
11.0 MElements/sec 		20086
18.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13369
417.7 Mpixels/sec 		15674
489.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12852
341.4 Mpixels/sec 		11889
315.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24082
1.66 Kfunctions/sec 		28587
1.97 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17067
47.3 images/sec 		16817
46.6 images/sec
SGEMM 6304
133.3 Gflops 		5582
118.0 Gflops
SFFT 15260
38.0 Gflops 		7861
19.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13948
10.4 Mpairs/sec 		9566
7.14 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13640
1.99 Mpixels/sec 		8742
1.28 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20893
61162.7 FPS 		17326
50721.1 FPS
HDR 15397
55.8 Mpixels/sec 		13529
49.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13796
241.7 Mpixels/sec 		8762
153.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10153
86.9 Words/sec 		11493
98.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 15011
4.38 Msubwindows/sec 		18711
5.47 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4703
13.0 GB/sec 		2448
6.78 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5497
78.8 ns 		3202
135.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3382
18.1 GB/sec 		1810
9.67 GB/sec

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