MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 3388 3054

System Information

MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.9 (Build 13A497d) Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Build 12E55)
Model MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 3072 KB 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F42D86C8 Proto Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP51.88Z.007E.B06.1202061253 Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202
Memory 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Integer 2753 2966
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1661 2489
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
3489 10636
Text Compress
single-core scalar
1849 954
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
3497 4478
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
1671 799
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
3148 4584
Image Compress
single-core scalar
1694 454
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
3325 2617
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1513 531
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
2990 2436
Lua
single-core scalar
2756 1008
Lua
multi-core scalar
5450 4613

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Floating Point 4804 3751
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
1786 1026
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
3629 7292
Dot Product
single-core scalar
3288 1587
Dot Product
single-core vector
2646 1398
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
6936 8464
Dot Product
multi-core vector
6066 6408
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
691 312
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
1188 1103
Primality Test
single-core scalar
3929 2431
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
5731 8773
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
4973 731
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
9864 4126
Blur Image
single-core scalar
5763 1271
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
10778 7597

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Memory 2652 1933
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
3282 1299
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2807 2118
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
2141 1303
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2539 2191
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2494 2756

Stream Performance

MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Mac mini (Late 2012)
Stream 2136 3171
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
2134 2550
Stream Copy
single-core vector
2313 4317
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
2217 2673
Stream Scale
single-core vector
2245 4473
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1863 977
Stream Add
single-core vector
2467 5199
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
2027 1117
Stream Triad
single-core vector
1828 4068