Mac mini (Late 2012) vs MacBook (Late 2008)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Single-Core Score 3212 1351
Multi-Core Score 6175 2177
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H2026) macOS 10.12 (Build 16A323)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
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 3072 KB
L3 Cache 3072 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 Macmini6,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F42D89C8 Proto
BIOS Apple Inc. 429.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MB51.88Z.007D.B03.0904271443
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Single-Core Score 3212 1351
AES 2582
1.94 GB/sec 		78
60.2 MB/sec
LZMA 3139
4.90 MB/sec 		1711
2.67 MB/sec
JPEG 3510
28.2 Mpixels/sec 		1884
15.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2975
41.3 Mpixels/sec 		1548
21.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2218
2.28 MB/sec 		1364
1.40 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3658
2.48 MTE/sec 		1615
1.09 MTE/sec
SQLite 2471
68.5 Krows/sec 		1217
33.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2720
12.4 MB/sec 		1380
6.27 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3973
3.60 MElements/sec 		2032
1.84 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2826
88.3 Mpixels/sec 		1587
49.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3674
97.6 Mpixels/sec 		1279
34.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4963
341.3 functions/sec 		1737
119.5 functions/sec
Camera 3389
9.40 images/sec 		1657
4.60 images/sec
SGEMM 1737
36.7 Gflops 		518
11.0 Gflops
SFFT 3360
8.38 Gflops 		731
1.82 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2899
2.17 Mpairs/sec 		832
621.7 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2631
384.3 Kpixels/sec 		1142
166.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3819
11179.9 FPS 		1842
5394.4 FPS
HDR 3223
11.7 Mpixels/sec 		1634
5.93 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3291
57.7 Mpixels/sec 		890
15.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2908
24.9 Words/sec 		1706
14.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 3040
888.1 Ksubwindows/sec 		1685
492.2 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3614
10.0 GB/sec 		1048
2.91 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5227
82.8 ns 		3960
9.15 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2852
15.2 GB/sec 		869
4.64 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Multi-Core Score 6175 2177
AES 5238
3.94 GB/sec 		150
116.4 MB/sec
LZMA 7128
11.1 MB/sec 		3357
5.24 MB/sec
JPEG 8339
67.1 Mpixels/sec 		3619
29.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7200
99.8 Mpixels/sec 		2910
40.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5225
5.37 MB/sec 		2300
2.36 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8882
6.01 MTE/sec 		2595
1.76 MTE/sec
SQLite 5343
148.1 Krows/sec 		2214
61.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5757
26.1 MB/sec 		2409
10.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6512
5.90 MElements/sec 		2277
2.06 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6165
192.6 Mpixels/sec 		3108
97.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7586
201.5 Mpixels/sec 		2137
56.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10887
748.5 functions/sec 		2803
192.8 functions/sec
Camera 8075
22.4 images/sec 		3370
9.35 images/sec
SGEMM 3215
68.0 Gflops 		939
19.9 Gflops
SFFT 6708
16.7 Gflops 		1446
3.60 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6090
4.55 Mpairs/sec 		1708
1.28 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5966
871.2 Kpixels/sec 		2201
321.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9263
27118.0 FPS 		3640
10656.3 FPS
HDR 7266
26.3 Mpixels/sec 		3098
11.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6352
111.3 Mpixels/sec 		1660
29.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5951
50.9 Words/sec 		2485
21.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 6779
1.98 Msubwindows/sec 		3385
988.9 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4389
12.2 GB/sec 		1190
3.30 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5316
81.4 ns 		3905
9.02 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3403
18.2 GB/sec 		860
4.60 GB/sec

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