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

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Single-Core Score 3226 1147
Multi-Core Score 10786 1847
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System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 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 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 3072 KB
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-F42D89C8 Proto
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B0A.1509111654 Apple Inc. MB51.88Z.007D.B03.0904271443
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 0 MHz RAM

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Single-Core Score 3226 1147
AES 2876
2.17 GB/sec 		64
50.1 MB/sec
LZMA 3277
5.12 MB/sec 		1560
2.44 MB/sec
JPEG 3455
27.8 Mpixels/sec 		1527
12.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3122
43.3 Mpixels/sec 		1282
17.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2478
2.55 MB/sec 		1154
1.19 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3464
2.34 MTE/sec 		1489
1.01 MTE/sec
SQLite 2744
76.1 Krows/sec 		1055
29.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2630
11.9 MB/sec 		1102
5.01 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3085
2.80 MElements/sec 		1731
1.57 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2989
93.4 Mpixels/sec 		1290
40.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3444
91.5 Mpixels/sec 		1111
29.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3671
252.4 functions/sec 		1486
102.2 functions/sec
Camera 3728
10.3 images/sec 		1372
3.81 images/sec
SGEMM 1792
37.9 Gflops 		416
8.80 Gflops
SFFT 3769
9.40 Gflops 		581
1.45 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3100
2.32 Mpairs/sec 		695
519.4 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2444
357.0 Kpixels/sec 		917
134.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4063
11894.2 FPS 		1467
4295.2 FPS
HDR 3437
12.5 Mpixels/sec 		1307
4.74 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3400
59.6 Mpixels/sec 		715
12.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3356
28.7 Words/sec 		1457
12.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3331
973.0 Ksubwindows/sec 		1360
397.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3492
9.68 GB/sec 		919
2.55 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5156
11.9 Moperations/sec 		3555
8.21 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2737
14.6 GB/sec 		782
4.18 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook (Late 2008)
Multi-Core Score 10786 1847
AES 8017
6.04 GB/sec 		128
99.4 MB/sec
LZMA 15208
23.8 MB/sec 		2837
4.43 MB/sec
JPEG 18078
145.5 Mpixels/sec 		3005
24.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14364
199.2 Mpixels/sec 		2343
32.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11954
12.3 MB/sec 		2200
2.26 MB/sec
Dijkstra 12880
8.72 MTE/sec 		2384
1.61 MTE/sec
SQLite 5992
166.1 Krows/sec 		2050
56.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12021
54.6 MB/sec 		2138
9.71 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7212
6.53 MElements/sec 		2292
2.08 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13791
430.9 Mpixels/sec 		2544
79.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12596
334.6 Mpixels/sec 		1753
46.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11415
784.9 functions/sec 		2716
186.8 functions/sec
Camera 17465
48.4 images/sec 		2683
7.44 images/sec
SGEMM 6898
145.8 Gflops 		811
17.1 Gflops
SFFT 15453
38.5 Gflops 		1155
2.88 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13800
10.3 Mpairs/sec 		1367
1.02 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13863
2.02 Mpixels/sec 		1764
257.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 20964
61370.0 FPS 		2885
8447.9 FPS
HDR 15720
57.0 Mpixels/sec 		2460
8.92 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13947
244.3 Mpixels/sec 		1310
23.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10902
93.3 Words/sec 		2084
17.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 14992
4.38 Msubwindows/sec 		2685
784.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4169
11.6 GB/sec 		861
2.39 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5354
12.4 Moperations/sec 		3487
8.06 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3203
17.1 GB/sec 		714
3.82 GB/sec

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