iMac Pro/i9 MBP/2018 Mac Mini Comparative Benchmarks

MacRS4 · 13 Nov 2018 at 12:49

Thought you may be interested in this - ran the same benchmarks on my kit.

MacRS4 · 13 Nov 2018 at 12:51

iMac Pro 8 core/64Gb RAM, Mac Mini 6 Core i7/32Gb RAM, MBP i9/32Gb RAM, SB2 i7/16Gb RAM.

Feek · 13 Nov 2018 at 16:39

That new Mac mini is quite impressive when it comes to the CPU but does show that the built in graphics are poor. This is my 2017 iMac i7/40Gb RAM.

GeekBench 4
Single Core - 5,625
Multi Core - 18,730
OpenCL - 133,743

Cinebench
CPU - 812
OpenGL - 114.17

Combat squirrel · 13 Nov 2018 at 17:28

Thanks for the benches, also, someones mad rich arn't they

Dream setup that - won't be able to afford for years, well, not without having to pay to live n what not lol

MacRS4 · 13 Nov 2018 at 17:30

It's a properly impressive piece of kit tbh, it's running all of my lab stuff now, and very well too. Makes me laugh a bit when people say the SB2 is fast - it simply isn't. If you want a laugh on one of my youtube vids you can see me do a video conversion on the Surface Book 2, and at the same time do the video conversion on my Macbook Pro in MacOS, run Windows in Parallels *AND* convert the video in Windows on the MBP.

It finished both of them way quicker than the SB2. Still, not a terrible machine in its own way, just wouldn't say it's fast!

EDITed to add, aha, not any more

Actually do use this stuff, they're not vanity toys. Honest.

ChrisD. · 13 Nov 2018 at 17:54

MacRS4 said:
It's a properly impressive piece of kit tbh, it's running all of my lab stuff now, and very well too. Makes me laugh a bit when people say the SB2 is fast - it simply isn't. If you want a laugh on one of my youtube vids you can see me do a video conversion on the Surface Book 2, and at the same time do the video conversion on my Macbook Pro in MacOS, run Windows in Parallels *AND* convert the video in Windows on the MBP.

Haha.

MacRS4 · 15 Nov 2018 at 00:34

You can see a video run through of the performance here:

Feek · 17 Nov 2018 at 21:56

Interesting to watch, thanks.

Journey · 18 Nov 2018 at 11:34

MacRS4 said:
It finished both of them way quicker than the SB2. Still, not a terrible machine in its own way, just wouldn't say it's fast!

A 6c/12t 45w TDP CPU being faster than a 4c/8t 15w TDP CPU. It was hardly worth the effort in comparison, it's like saying my AMG C63s is faster than your C220d.

MacRS4 · 18 Nov 2018 at 11:43

Yes, I know?! That was kind of my point though.

People banging on about how expensive MBPs are, and how powerful the SB2 is...and yet my 2017 MBP was both cheaper than and wiped the floor with the SB2.

Journey · 18 Nov 2018 at 11:50

MacRS4 said:
Yes, I know?! That was kind of my point though.

People banging on about how expensive MBPs are, and how powerful the SB2 is...and yet my 2017 MBP was both cheaper than and wiped the floor with the SB2.

It just proves people don't bother to look at the base hardware, or are just plain stupid. A tablet PC with a keyboard, Vs a dedicated performance notebook/laptop.

I suppose people's hardware idiocy keeps me in a job though.

MacRS4 · 18 Nov 2018 at 11:54

Yup! It was a follow up to some stupid on Facebook. Guy asking for something to process video in a car park (think car racing, nothing dodgy, honest!). It was all OMG SB2 is so much faster than a MBP for video. Derp.

I quite like the SB2 and it's become my meeting buddy, and sometimes in front of the telly, but it's an Office productivity type device really, hardly powerful. Trying to do video on it when you're used to something more powerful is just painful.

I took it to Australia on my most recent couple of week trip - simply gave up editing video on it.

glenimp617 · 22 Nov 2018 at 15:23

I'm seriously considering the very offer today, £650 for the new 2018 Mac Mini i3 (quad core 3.6ghz, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd).
Looks like the perfect mac os machine to me......and have the option to upgrade the ram and ssd later if needed.

Mmmmmm

dasyad · 22 Nov 2018 at 16:21

The SSD is soldered on isn’t it?

MacRS4 · 22 Nov 2018 at 16:25

glenimp617 · 22 Nov 2018 at 18:22

dasyad said:
The SSD is soldered on isn’t it?

Damn, will but something else

Thanks

Feek · 22 Nov 2018 at 20:38

TheOracle said:
Damn, will but something else

Thanks

Using it as a desktop machine? External SSD in a caddy. Sorted.

MacRS4 · 5 Dec 2018 at 18:03

This shows the performance with the eGPU.

Feek · 5 Dec 2018 at 18:23

Interesting, thank you.

MacRS4 · 5 Dec 2018 at 18:31

Doesn't work with Plex unfortunately. Well, I say it doesn't work - I mean it doesn't use it. Still uses the internal Intel UHD.