Just after Apple’s event introducing the new Mac mini models with M2 and M2 Pro chips, the first benchmark for the high-end M2 Pro chip-powered Mac mini machine appears to have surfaced over the internet.
Thanks to benchmarks that surfaced over at Geekbench. Take what you will from the scores displayed, but this Mac mini machine would top Geekbench’s charts. The Mac mini with M2 Pro has managed to sit atop the list with single-core and multi-core scores of 1,952 points and 15,013 points, respectively. The device that stopped through Geekbench showed up with a model number of “Mac14, 12,” running with 16GB of unified memory and macOS 13.2.
Based on these numbers, the M2 Pro Mac mini has outperformed the previous-gen M1 Mac mini machine, which achieved a single-core score of 1,715 and a multi-core score of 7,442 on the Geekbench platform.
The Mac mini with M2 Pro has access to four Thunderbolt 4 ports, an Ethernet port, Gigabit port (10 Gigabit option), an HDMI port, two USB-A ports, and a headphone jack. It also has Bluetooth 5.3, and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, which is the fastest wireless network standard. It can simultaneously play up to five streams of 8K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps, or up to 23 streams of 4K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps.
Via: MacRumors