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These results, I think, lend credence to the reports others have made about macOS High Sierra on older Macs giving them better levels of performance. I enjoy the fact that I can continue to use a seven-year-old Mac with the most modern operating system, and not have to worry about it bogging down and becoming inefficient. While not surprising, it’s welcome to see. This doesn’t surprise me too terribly much, since I’ve found the tiny beast to consistently perform slightly better with new versions of OS X/macOS. To make a long story short, High Sierra provides a modest performance boost for Gandalf, my mid–2010 Mac mini. Whew, those were a lot of geeky numbers and phrases. The memory bandwidth with multiple cores was boosted to 3.8GB/second, for a score of 3616. Face detection scored 2682, a 45 point boost. Speech recognition got a score of 2147, processing 18.4 words per second.

In multi-core performance, the Mac mini scored 1909, a 238 point difference. Multi-core performance, too, improves in High Sierra compared to Sierraīy way of contrast, the single-core overall score for High Sierra on Gandalf was 1169. Memory bandwidth was 3.41GB/second, getting a score of 639 according to Geekbench 4’s test parameters. Face detection occurred at 770.3 Ksubwindows per second, leading to a score of 2637. Using both cores, the Mac mini processed speech recognition tasks at 14.5 words per second, for a 1691 score.

Under macOS Sierra, the single- and multi-core scores were 10 respectively. Single-core performance of Sierra versus High Sierra shows some improvement with the newer operating system

Regardless of whether the test was single-core or multi-core, High Sierra provided consistently better performance in the analysis. If you aren’t quite so interested in exact numbers, feel free to skip ahead to “Interpreting the Benchmarks.” The Benchmark ResultsĪs you’ll see in the charts below, macOS High Sierra performed modestly better in all categories. Now for the scores – if you’re into geekspeak, keep reading the results. Then I downloaded Geekbench again, after the initial time of Spotlight indexing was finished, and ran another series of tests. After obtaining the Geekbench 4 results for Sierra, I downloaded and performed a clean install of macOS High Sierra.

Speed up mac mini mid 2010