Mac mini (Late 2012) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3444 3895
Multi-Core Score 11803 7518
Geekbench 4.2.3 Geekbench 4.4.2

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.13.5 (Build 17F77) macOS 10.15.1 (Build 19B88)
Model Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5257U @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4
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 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.010E.B00.1804111136 Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3444 3895
AES 2811
2.12 GB/sec 		3139
2.36 GB/sec
LZMA 3116
4.87 MB/sec 		3526
5.51 MB/sec
JPEG 3768
30.3 Mpixels/sec 		3873
31.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3405
47.2 Mpixels/sec 		3550
49.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2441
2.51 MB/sec 		3599
3.70 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3705
2.51 MTE/sec 		4419
2.99 MTE/sec
SQLite 2743
76.1 Krows/sec 		3265
90.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2773
12.6 MB/sec 		3435
15.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4434
4.02 MElements/sec 		4111
3.73 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3127
97.7 Mpixels/sec 		3510
109.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3458
91.9 Mpixels/sec 		4197
111.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5545
381.3 functions/sec 		6095
419.1 functions/sec
Camera 3958
11.0 images/sec 		3992
11.1 images/sec
SGEMM 1979
41.8 Gflops 		3415
72.2 Gflops
SFFT 3667
9.14 Gflops 		4131
10.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3113
2.33 Mpairs/sec 		3614
2.70 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2903
424.0 Kpixels/sec 		3480
508.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4262
12477.0 FPS 		4616
13515.5 FPS
HDR 3525
12.8 Mpixels/sec 		4268
15.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3493
61.2 Mpixels/sec 		3675
64.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3827
32.8 Words/sec 		3579
30.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 3485
1.02 Msubwindows/sec 		3724
1.09 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3558
9.86 GB/sec 		3559
9.86 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5307
81.6 ns 		5720
75.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2913
15.6 GB/sec 		3571
19.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2012) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 11803 7518
AES 8164
6.15 GB/sec 		6388
4.81 GB/sec
LZMA 15828
24.7 MB/sec 		8022
12.5 MB/sec
JPEG 19223
154.7 Mpixels/sec 		9683
77.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14123
195.8 Mpixels/sec 		8282
114.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12131
12.5 MB/sec 		6945
7.14 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14683
9.94 MTE/sec 		10146
6.87 MTE/sec
SQLite 9645
267.4 Krows/sec 		6973
193.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12234
55.5 MB/sec 		6963
31.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11900
10.8 MElements/sec 		6978
6.32 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13774
430.4 Mpixels/sec 		7913
247.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12467
331.2 Mpixels/sec 		9253
245.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24722
1.70 Kfunctions/sec 		14292
982.6 functions/sec
Camera 17769
49.3 images/sec 		9707
26.9 images/sec
SGEMM 6331
133.8 Gflops 		6021
127.3 Gflops
SFFT 15159
37.8 Gflops 		8276
20.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13900
10.4 Mpairs/sec 		8253
6.16 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13897
2.03 Mpixels/sec 		7873
1.15 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21169
61969.9 FPS 		11423
33440.8 FPS
HDR 15851
57.5 Mpixels/sec 		9644
35.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14133
247.6 Mpixels/sec 		8031
140.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11011
94.2 Words/sec 		6251
53.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 15429
4.51 Msubwindows/sec 		8631
2.52 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4406
12.2 GB/sec 		4438
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5371
80.6 ns 		5462
79.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3281
17.5 GB/sec 		3840
20.5 GB/sec

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