Apple Mac mini i7 2.3 (Late 2012)
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Apple Mac mini i5 3.0 (2018)

Product comparison with benchmarks

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Device Information
Silver Colours Space Grey
799 $ / 829 € Price from 1,099 $ / 1,249 €
Q4/2012 Release date Q4/2018

Processor
Intel Core i7-3615QM Name Intel Core i5-8500B
Intel Manufacturer Intel
4 / 8 Cores / Threads 6 / 6
2.30 (3.30) GHz Frequency 3.00 (4.10) GHz
22 nm Structure 14 nm
Ivy Bridge H Architecture Coffee Lake S
Q2/2012 Release date Q1/2018

Memory
4 - 16 GB Memory Size 8 - 64 GB
DDR3 1600 Memory Type DDR4 2666
-- Memory Bandwith --
Yes Upgradeable? Yes

Graphic card
Intel HD Graphics 4000 Name Intel UHD Graphics 630
Internal Type Internal
0.65 (1.20) GHz Frequency 0.35 (1.15) GHz
0.50 GB Memory Size 1.50 GB
LPDDR3 Memory Type --
22 nm Structure 14 nm
Q1/2011 Release date Q4/2017

Screen
-- Size --
Resolution
-- Ratio --
-- Technology --
-- Max. Brightness --
No HDR support No
No Always On Display No
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 1. external display 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 2. external display 4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz
-- 3. external display --

Storage
1,024 GB Size 256 - 2,048 GB
Harddrive Type SSD
SATA 6 GB/s Interface PCIe
Yes Upgradeable? No
-- 2. drive --
SDXC Card reader --

Network
802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless LAN 802.11ac
1 Gbit LAN 1 Gbit
Bluetooth 4.0 Bluetooth Bluetooth 5.0
-- Cellular --

Camera
-- Front camera --
-- Back camera 1 --
-- Back camera 2 --
-- Back camera 3 --

Ports
1x HDMI 1x HDMI 2.0
-- DVI --
1x (Thunderbolt 1) DistplayPort --
1x Mini Display Port (Thunderbolt 1) Thunderbolt 4x USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB 3.1 Gen 2)
4x USB 3.0 USB 2x USB 3.0
-- USB-C 2x (Thunderbolt)
-- Lightning --
1x Firewire 800 Other --

Dimensions / Housing
36 mm Height 36 mm
197 mm Width 197 mm
197 mm Depth 197 mm
1,220 g Weight 1,300 g
-- Housing Material --
-- Glas Type --
-- IP Protection Class --

Additional data
A1347 Part-no A1993
Macmini6,2 Ident-No: Macmini8,1
2570 EMC-No: 3213
-- 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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