MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs Mac mini (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3105 4777
Multi-Core Score 10199 14322
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004) macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i3-8100B @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0D.1602221713 Apple Inc. 220.250.366.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.4507.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3105 4777
AES 2481
1.87 GB/sec 		3093
2.33 GB/sec
LZMA 2987
4.67 MB/sec 		4110
6.42 MB/sec
JPEG 3392
27.3 Mpixels/sec 		4652
37.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3077
42.7 Mpixels/sec 		4317
59.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2290
2.35 MB/sec 		4561
4.69 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3377
2.29 MTE/sec 		5436
3.68 MTE/sec
SQLite 2653
73.6 Krows/sec 		4003
111.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2418
11.0 MB/sec 		4057
18.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3366
3.05 MElements/sec 		5212
4.72 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2733
85.4 Mpixels/sec 		4247
132.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3198
85.0 Mpixels/sec 		5426
144.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3444
236.8 functions/sec 		7649
525.9 functions/sec
Camera 3351
9.29 images/sec 		4872
13.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1773
37.5 Gflops 		4867
102.9 Gflops
SFFT 3542
8.83 Gflops 		5195
13.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2826
2.11 Mpairs/sec 		4436
3.31 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2712
396.1 Kpixels/sec 		4094
597.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3774
11047.8 FPS 		5133
15026.3 FPS
HDR 3150
11.4 Mpixels/sec 		5526
20.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3035
53.2 Mpixels/sec 		5025
88.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3434
29.4 Words/sec 		5024
43.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 3050
891.0 Ksubwindows/sec 		4517
1.32 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3564
9.88 GB/sec 		4448
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5183
12.0 Moperations/sec 		6212
69.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2746
14.7 GB/sec 		4649
24.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac mini (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 10199 14322
AES 8923
6.72 GB/sec 		13290
10.0 GB/sec
LZMA 14440
22.6 MB/sec 		14378
22.5 MB/sec
JPEG 16797
135.2 Mpixels/sec 		18328
147.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13590
188.5 Mpixels/sec 		15252
211.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 10768
11.1 MB/sec 		16376
16.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14348
9.71 MTE/sec 		14199
9.61 MTE/sec
SQLite 5434
150.7 Krows/sec 		14809
410.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 11091
50.4 MB/sec 		14859
67.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7002
6.34 MElements/sec 		18125
16.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12349
385.8 Mpixels/sec 		16557
517.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12069
320.7 Mpixels/sec 		17589
467.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9497
653.0 functions/sec 		27689
1.90 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 15858
44.0 images/sec 		19092
52.9 images/sec
SGEMM 6464
136.6 Gflops 		12844
271.5 Gflops
SFFT 13554
33.8 Gflops 		20369
50.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12519
9.35 Mpairs/sec 		17410
13.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12526
1.83 Mpixels/sec 		14438
2.11 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18753
54898.3 FPS 		19896
58244.1 FPS
HDR 14633
53.0 Mpixels/sec 		18699
67.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12470
218.5 Mpixels/sec 		19491
341.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10724
91.8 Words/sec 		11813
101.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 13941
4.07 Msubwindows/sec 		17862
5.22 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4743
13.1 GB/sec 		4656
12.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5444
12.6 Moperations/sec 		5898
73.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3496
18.7 GB/sec 		4685
25.0 GB/sec

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