Apple Mac mini i5 2.6 (Late 2014)
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Apple MacBook Pro 15" i7 2.7 Retina (Mid 2012)

Product comparison with benchmarks

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Device Information

Silver Colours Silver
699 $ / 719 € Price from 3,049 $ / 3,149 €
Q4/2014 Release date Q2/2012

Processor

Intel Core i5-4278U Name Intel Core i7-3820QM
Intel Manufacturer Intel
2 / 4 Cores / Threads 4 / 8
2.60 (3.10) GHz Frequency 2.70 (3.70) GHz
22 nm Structure 22 nm
Haswell U Architecture Ivy Bridge
Q3/2014 Release date Q2/2012

Memory

8 - 16 GB Memory Size 8 - 16 GB
LPDDR3 1600 Memory Type DDR3L 1600
-- Memory Bandwith --
No Upgradeable? Yes

Graphic card

Intel Iris Graphics 5100 Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - 1 GB
Internal Type Dedicated
0.20 (1.10) GHz Frequency 0.90 GHz
1.50 GB Memory Size 1.00 GB
LPDDR3 Memory Type GDDR5
22 nm Structure 28 nm
Q2/2013 Release date Q2/2012

Graphic card 2

-- Name Intel HD Graphics 4000
-- Type Internal
-- Frequency 0.65 (1.25) GHz
-- Memory Size 0.50 GB
-- Memory Type LPDDR3
-- Structure 22 nm
-- Release date Q1/2011

Screen

-- Size 15.4 inch
Resolution 2880 x 1800 @ 60 Hz (220 ppi)
-- Ratio 16:10
-- Technology IPS
-- Max. Brightness 300 nits
No HDR support No
No Always On Display No
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 1. external display 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 2. external display 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz
-- 3. external display --

Storage

1,024 GB Size 512 - 768 GB
Harddrive Type SSD
SATA 6 GB/s Interface SATA 6 GB/s
Yes Upgradeable? Yes
-- 2. drive --
SDXC Card reader SDXC

Battery

-- Type Lithium-Polymer
-- Capacity 95.00 Wh
-- Battery life 7.00 h
-- Charging MagSafe 2 @ 85 W

Network

802.11ac Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
1 Gbit LAN --
Bluetooth 4.0 Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.0
-- Cellular --

Camera

-- Front camera 0.9 MP, 720p
-- Back camera 1 --
-- Back camera 2 --
-- Back camera 3 --

Ports

1x HDMI 1.4 HDMI 1x HDMI 1.4
-- DVI --
2x (Thunderbolt 2) DistplayPort 2x Mini DisplayPort (Thunderbolt 1)
2x Mini Display Port (Thunderbolt 2) Thunderbolt 2x Thunderbolt 1 (Mini DisplayPort)
4x USB 3.0 USB 2x USB 3.0
-- USB-C --
-- Lightning --
-- Other --

Dimensions / Housing

36 mm Height 18 mm
197 mm Width 359 mm
197 mm Depth 247 mm
1,200 g Weight 2,020 g
-- Housing Material Aluminum
-- Glas Type --
-- IP Protection Class --

Additional data

A1347 Part-no A1398
Macmini7,1 Ident-No: MacBookPro10,1
2840 EMC-No: 2512
-- Security features --
Link to manufacturer data sheet Link to manufacturer

Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 6 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Cinebench R23 - Single Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




Cinebench R23 - Multi Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS) - FP32 (TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS. TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second. The larger this number, the faster the graphics card is.




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