Mac mini (Late 2012) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina)
Single-Core Score 2870 3640
Multi-Core Score 5469 6822
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina)
Operating System macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2657) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1 Apple Inc. Mac-AFD8A9D944EA4843 MacBookPro10,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0A.1509111654 Apple Inc. MBP102.88Z.0106.B0A.1509130955
Memory 6.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina)
Single-Core Score 2870 3640
AES 2510
1.89 GB/sec 		2931
2.21 GB/sec
LZMA 3104
4.85 MB/sec 		3848
6.01 MB/sec
JPEG 3181
25.6 Mpixels/sec 		4051
32.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2993
41.5 Mpixels/sec 		3552
49.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2187
2.25 MB/sec 		2811
2.89 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3169
2.14 MTE/sec 		4086
2.77 MTE/sec
SQLite 2407
66.7 Krows/sec 		3222
89.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2565
11.6 MB/sec 		2957
13.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3337
3.02 MElements/sec 		4182
3.79 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2591
81.0 Mpixels/sec 		3321
103.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2833
75.3 Mpixels/sec 		3582
95.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3342
229.8 functions/sec 		4231
291.0 functions/sec
Camera 3222
8.94 images/sec 		4019
11.1 images/sec
SGEMM 1697
35.9 Gflops 		2107
44.6 Gflops
SFFT 3103
7.74 Gflops 		4043
10.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2762
2.06 Mpairs/sec 		3374
2.52 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2616
382.1 Kpixels/sec 		3145
459.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3559
10419.9 FPS 		4453
13037.2 FPS
HDR 2914
10.6 Mpixels/sec 		3812
13.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3014
52.8 Mpixels/sec 		3720
65.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3032
25.9 Words/sec 		4077
34.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3101
906.0 Ksubwindows/sec 		3632
1.06 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2691
7.46 GB/sec 		3690
10.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4898
11.3 Moperations/sec 		5893
13.6 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2057
11.0 GB/sec 		3005
16.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina)
Multi-Core Score 5469 6822
AES 4923
3.71 GB/sec 		6015
4.53 GB/sec
LZMA 6861
10.7 MB/sec 		8295
13.0 MB/sec
JPEG 8319
66.9 Mpixels/sec 		9762
78.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6819
94.6 Mpixels/sec 		8322
115.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5232
5.38 MB/sec 		6409
6.59 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7461
5.05 MTE/sec 		9530
6.45 MTE/sec
SQLite 4850
134.5 Krows/sec 		6245
173.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5446
24.7 MB/sec 		6380
29.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3796
3.44 MElements/sec 		5974
5.41 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5781
180.7 Mpixels/sec 		6937
216.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5835
155.0 Mpixels/sec 		7618
202.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7045
484.4 functions/sec 		8418
578.8 functions/sec
Camera 7800
21.6 images/sec 		9093
25.2 images/sec
SGEMM 3144
66.5 Gflops 		3829
81.0 Gflops
SFFT 6650
16.6 Gflops 		7746
19.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6123
4.57 Mpairs/sec 		7314
5.46 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6049
883.4 Kpixels/sec 		7183
1.05 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9119
26696.6 FPS 		10826
31692.9 FPS
HDR 7193
26.1 Mpixels/sec 		8598
31.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5948
104.2 Mpixels/sec 		7140
125.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5486
46.9 Words/sec 		7192
61.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 6779
1.98 Msubwindows/sec 		8031
2.35 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3017
8.36 GB/sec 		4250
11.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5100
11.8 Moperations/sec 		6040
14.0 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2157
11.5 GB/sec 		3428
18.3 GB/sec

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