Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Geekbench 2 Score 3161 9586

System Information

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.5 (Build 10H568) Mac OS X 10.7.3
Model Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i7-2635QM @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 3072 KB 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F22C86C8 Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2794B2CDB12 Macmini5,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MM31.88Z.0081.B06.0904271717 Apple Inc. MM51.88Z.0077.B10.1201241549
Memory 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Integer 2772 8220
Blowfish
single-core scalar
1297 1766
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
2721 11085
Text Compress
single-core scalar
1795 2839
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
3302 13371
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
1552 3118
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
3008 14978
Image Compress
single-core scalar
1717 1769
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
3232 10834
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
1721 2553
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
3327 11552
Lua
single-core scalar
3292 4949
Lua
multi-core scalar
6303 19827

Floating Point Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Floating Point 4299 14416
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
1487 2438
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
2933 16156
Dot Product
single-core scalar
2695 3974
Dot Product
single-core vector
2090 4799
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
5517 18383
Dot Product
multi-core vector
4705 25782
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1089 2161
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
2157 3612
Primality Test
single-core scalar
3893 6693
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
5716 24605
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
4209 5669
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
8429 35932
Blur Image
single-core scalar
5224 6643
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
10043 44978

Memory Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Memory 2497 5151
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
3037 5419
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
2662 7875
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
1976 3740
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2473 3773
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2341 4951

Stream Performance

Mac mini (Early 2009) Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Stream 1872 6332
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
1923 5687
Stream Copy
single-core vector
2000 7464
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
1753 5573
Stream Scale
single-core vector
1838 7046
Stream Add
single-core scalar
1772 5627
Stream Add
single-core vector
2172 7502
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
1941 6034
Stream Triad
single-core vector
1582 5726