Mac mini (Late 2014) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2014) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3452 3287
Multi-Core Score 6414 5835
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2014) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31) macOS 10.12 (Build 16A323)
Model Mac mini (Late 2014) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-4308U @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4
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 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF Macmini7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MM71.88Z.0220.B07.1602221546 Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0166.B12.1602221953
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3452 3287
AES 3098
2.33 GB/sec 		2747
2.07 GB/sec
LZMA 3109
4.86 MB/sec 		3076
4.80 MB/sec
JPEG 3890
31.3 Mpixels/sec 		3369
27.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3405
47.2 Mpixels/sec 		3095
42.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3544
3.64 MB/sec 		3140
3.23 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3514
2.38 MTE/sec 		3543
2.40 MTE/sec
SQLite 3422
94.9 Krows/sec 		2875
79.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3203
14.5 MB/sec 		2801
12.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3569
3.23 MElements/sec 		2950
2.67 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3396
106.1 Mpixels/sec 		2940
91.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3261
86.6 Mpixels/sec 		2916
77.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4151
285.4 functions/sec 		3667
252.2 functions/sec
Camera 3806
10.6 images/sec 		3351
9.29 images/sec
SGEMM 3011
63.7 Gflops 		2965
62.7 Gflops
SFFT 3599
8.97 Gflops 		3595
8.96 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3278
2.45 Mpairs/sec 		3125
2.33 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2963
432.7 Kpixels/sec 		3024
441.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3834
11225.2 FPS 		3829
11210.2 FPS
HDR 3539
12.8 Mpixels/sec 		3603
13.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3494
61.2 Mpixels/sec 		2924
51.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3049
26.1 Words/sec 		3121
26.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 3592
1.05 Msubwindows/sec 		3250
949.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3029
8.39 GB/sec 		3357
9.30 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5150
11.9 Moperations/sec 		5309
12.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2856
15.3 GB/sec 		3117
16.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2014) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 6414 5835
AES 5882
4.43 GB/sec 		5083
3.83 GB/sec
LZMA 7263
11.3 MB/sec 		6492
10.1 MB/sec
JPEG 9411
75.7 Mpixels/sec 		7682
61.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7731
107.2 Mpixels/sec 		6832
94.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6827
7.02 MB/sec 		5643
5.80 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8005
5.42 MTE/sec 		8363
5.66 MTE/sec
SQLite 6283
174.2 Krows/sec 		5344
148.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6388
29.0 MB/sec 		5356
24.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3856
3.49 MElements/sec 		4125
3.74 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7433
232.2 Mpixels/sec 		5993
187.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7040
187.1 Mpixels/sec 		6220
165.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8142
559.9 functions/sec 		6652
457.4 functions/sec
Camera 9258
25.7 images/sec 		7596
21.1 images/sec
SGEMM 5026
106.2 Gflops 		5066
107.1 Gflops
SFFT 7560
18.8 Gflops 		6661
16.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6990
5.22 Mpairs/sec 		6443
4.81 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6759
987.0 Kpixels/sec 		6268
915.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9762
28577.5 FPS 		8810
25790.4 FPS
HDR 8412
30.5 Mpixels/sec 		7878
28.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7623
133.5 Mpixels/sec 		6073
106.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5393
46.1 Words/sec 		5850
50.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 7991
2.33 Msubwindows/sec 		6929
2.02 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3726
10.3 GB/sec 		3830
10.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5041
11.6 Moperations/sec 		4803
11.1 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2958
15.8 GB/sec 		3375
18.0 GB/sec

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