Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB Mac mini (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 641 1224 52.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 3305 4146 79.7%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.5.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.3.1 Tryout

System Information

Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB Mac mini (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 12.6.3 (Build 21G419) macOS 11.1 (Build 20C69)
Model MacPro5,1 Mac mini (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Xeon X5690 @ 3.46 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Apple M1 @ 3.18 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2 Apple M1
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 6 128 KB x 1
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 6 64.0 KB x 1
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 4.00 MB x 1
L3 Cache 12.0 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-27AD2F918AE68F61 MacPro5,1 Macmini9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 9999.999.999.999.999
Memory 32.00 GB DDR3 16.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB Mac mini (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 641 1224 52.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 619 2063 30.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 604 977 61.8%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 411 1005 40.9%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 761 1227 62.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 597 1182 50.5%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 612 1017 60.2%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 671 1156 58.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 547 1209 45.2%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Clang 646 1075 60.1%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Camera 648 1151 56.3%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 584 1144 51.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 903 1249 72.3%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 580 1001 57.9%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 721 1702 42.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 720 1414 50.9%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1289 2270 56.8%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HDR 1224 1837 66.6%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 780 1762 44.3%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 536 1017 52.7%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 860 1059 81.2%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 326 890 36.6%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB Mac mini (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 3305 4146 79.7%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 2520 4757 53.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 5866 3072 191.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 3949 3941 100.2%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 2024 3310 61.1%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 3276 4286 76.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 3464 5381 64.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 3188 4050 78.7%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 2348 3483 67.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Clang 3956 4137 95.6%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Camera 2621 4010 65.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 3539 3966 89.2%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 5942 4697 126.5%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 3481 3850 90.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 4497 5057 88.9%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 3707 5352 69.3%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 5198 6761 76.9%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HDR 6104 6858 89.0%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 5216 7409 70.4%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 2454 3759 65.3%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 2205 2747 80.3%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1004 2482 40.5%
Mac Pro (Early 2009) 5,1 – 1x 3.46 6C #97/ 32 GB RAM 1333s / OWC 960 PCIe card / AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)