Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Geekbench 2 Score 3241 6445

System Information

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.8.1 (Build 12B19) Mac OS X 10.8 (Build 12A269)
Model Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 3072 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F22C86C8 Apple Inc. Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1 Macmini5,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM31.88Z.0081.B06.0904271717 Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549
Memory 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Integer 2897 5062
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1309 1740
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
2765 5741
Text Compress
single-core scalar
1809 2815
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
3490 6973
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
1523 2975
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
3127 7851
Image Compress
single-core scalar
1721 2606
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
3356 6665
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1768 2953
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
3468 6704
Lua
single-core scalar
3502 4194
Lua
multi-core scalar
6926 9537

Floating Point Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Floating Point 4293 8634
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
1489 2340
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
3007 8317
Dot Product
single-core scalar
2714 3778
Dot Product
single-core vector
2103 4662
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
5710 9884
Dot Product
multi-core vector
4821 13636
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1186 1940
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
1493 3269
Primality Test
single-core scalar
3831 6245
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
5864 13142
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
4248 5665
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
8480 18612
Blur Image
single-core scalar
5062 6277
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
10103 23118

Memory Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Memory 2548 4918
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
3117 5099
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2680 7524
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
1985 3356
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2529 3747
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2432 4864

Stream Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Stream 2156 6682
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
2029 6179
Stream Copy
single-core vector
2271 7818
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2120 5843
Stream Scale
single-core vector
2180 7331
Stream Add
single-core scalar
2117 5855
Stream Add
single-core vector
2434 8084
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2309 6354
Stream Triad
single-core vector
1793 5992