They put the power of the new Mac mini to the test!
Apple may have delayed the launch of the Mac mini until January of this year, but with its arrival imminent this week, we wasted no time comparing its most interesting new feature, such as the performance of the versions with M2 and M2 Pro processor compared to the M1 released in 2020.
Of course, the Geekbench test result of the updated model was higher than the Mac mini M1 and they achieved speeds that Apple says were previously unobtainable in such a small unit.
Mac mini M1 vs. Mac mini M2
The Mac mini with M2 chip has an 8-core processor (4 for performance and 4 for efficiency) and a 10-core GPU. For its part, the M2 Pro chip has a 10-core processor (6 performance and 4 efficiency) and a 16-core GPU. Both versions feature the 16-core Neural Engine.
For the base model Mac mini with the M2 processor, single-core performance improved from 1651 to 1951, an increase of 18%. But it is in multi-core use that the power of the M2 chip takes on its full meaning. Here, the score went from 5181 to 9003, an improvement of 73%.
For its part, the M2 Pro is essentially the same as the base M2 in terms of single-core performance, but it hits 15013 in the multi-core test, making it 66% faster than the M2 and 189% faster than the M1.
Overall, the Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro offers faster performance, even more unified memory, and advanced connectivity, including support for up to two displays on the M2 model and three displays on the M2 Pro model.
This year’s new Mac mini will hit the market with a base price of 719 dollars on January 24, 2023, although they are already available for booking.
In practice, the power of the Mac mini 2023, in either of its two presentations, speeds up speed-demanding tasks like video editing in Final Cut Pro. Notably, the M2 model can also simultaneously play up to two 8K ProRes 422 video streams at 30 fps, or up to 12 4K ProRes 422 video streams at 30 fps.
Learn more about the Mac mini 2023 in the following Apple video:
