Mac mini (Late 2018) vs MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)
Single-Core Score 5727 2986
Multi-Core Score 22255 5420
Geekbench 4.3.3 Geekbench 4.0.4 Tryout

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G29g) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2659)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i5-4260U @ 1.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 12288 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF MacBookAir6,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.270.44.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6529.5.2,0) Apple Inc. MBA61.88Z.0099.B22.1602221559
Memory 16.00 GB 0 MHz RAM 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)
Single-Core Score 5727 2986
AES 5048
3.80 GB/sec 		2577
1.94 GB/sec
LZMA 5253
8.21 MB/sec 		2944
4.60 MB/sec
JPEG 5900
47.5 Mpixels/sec 		3250
26.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5319
73.8 Mpixels/sec 		2882
40.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5772
5.93 MB/sec 		2894
2.97 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7495
5.07 MTE/sec 		3236
2.19 MTE/sec
SQLite 5089
141.1 Krows/sec 		2870
79.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5267
23.9 MB/sec 		2637
12.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6659
6.03 MElements/sec 		3150
2.85 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5299
165.6 Mpixels/sec 		2868
89.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7256
192.8 Mpixels/sec 		2741
72.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9711
667.7 functions/sec 		3704
254.7 functions/sec
Camera 6254
17.3 images/sec 		3221
8.93 images/sec
SGEMM 6240
131.9 Gflops 		2585
54.7 Gflops
SFFT 6439
16.1 Gflops 		3046
7.59 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5613
4.19 Mpairs/sec 		2755
2.06 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5217
761.8 Kpixels/sec 		2403
351.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6474
18952.6 FPS 		3130
9164.8 FPS
HDR 6883
25.0 Mpixels/sec 		3012
10.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6247
109.4 Mpixels/sec 		2940
51.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6652
56.9 Words/sec 		2749
23.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 5592
1.63 Msubwindows/sec 		3078
899.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4195
11.6 GB/sec 		2801
7.76 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5846
74.0 ns 		4162
9.61 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3308
17.7 GB/sec 		2875
15.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)
Multi-Core Score 22255 5420
AES 9408
7.08 GB/sec 		4883
3.68 GB/sec
LZMA 32902
51.4 MB/sec 		6112
9.55 MB/sec
JPEG 37192
299.3 Mpixels/sec 		7200
57.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 21108
292.7 Mpixels/sec 		6362
88.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 29977
30.8 MB/sec 		5024
5.16 MB/sec
Dijkstra 16831
11.4 MTE/sec 		7936
5.37 MTE/sec
SQLite 27050
749.9 Krows/sec 		4831
133.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 27846
126.4 MB/sec 		5072
23.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 26135
23.7 MElements/sec 		4134
3.75 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 31262
976.8 Mpixels/sec 		5809
181.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 21810
579.4 Mpixels/sec 		5792
153.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 55545
3.82 Kfunctions/sec 		6391
439.4 functions/sec
Camera 34736
96.3 images/sec 		7133
19.8 images/sec
SGEMM 12437
262.9 Gflops 		4859
102.7 Gflops
SFFT 33115
82.6 Gflops 		6165
15.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 31986
23.9 Mpairs/sec 		5465
4.08 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 28697
4.19 Mpixels/sec 		5491
801.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 44701
130855.5 FPS 		8132
23805.3 FPS
HDR 29167
105.7 Mpixels/sec 		6645
24.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 31664
554.7 Mpixels/sec 		6041
105.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11812
101.1 Words/sec 		5340
45.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 35343
10.3 Msubwindows/sec 		6239
1.82 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4093
11.3 GB/sec 		3622
10.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5535
78.2 ns 		4193
9.69 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3123
16.7 GB/sec 		3246
17.3 GB/sec

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