Thunderbolt external graphics card for late 2012 mac mini

#Thunderbolt external graphics card for late 2012 mac mini pro

On the other hand, besides the lack of a Quad-Core option, the 2014 Mac mini memory is not user serviceable. The 2014 Mac mini's other advantages include fast flash storage option, Fusion drive option, dual Thunderbolt 2.0 ports, and WiFi 802.11ac.

#Thunderbolt external graphics card for late 2012 mac mini pro

Before 2014 mini owners get too cocky, check out the included results for the 'late 2013' Retina MacBook Pro with a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M graphics processor. In those scenarios, the 2014 Dual-Core i7 with Intel Iris graphics wins. However, the tables are turned when it comes to single-core CPU intensive tasks or GPU intensive tasks. Notice we included the 'late 2013' Retina MacBook Pro's test results to demonstrate further the potential of a Quad-Core 2014 Mac mini. The 'beating' would have been even worse if we had access to the CTO 2.6GHz Quad-Core i7 Mac mini from 2012. )ДЇor multi-core CPU intensive tasks, the Quad-Core 2012 Mac mini excelled even with a lower core clock speed. ( RED bar means FASTEST in Frames Per Second. We chose 16 levels (usually the max that games use) at 640x480 Windowed with anti-aliasing disabled.

The higher the tessellation level, the more GPU processing power is required. Tessellation is the ability of the GPU to divide a polygon into smaller ones (according to the tessellation level factor) in order to increase polygon density: the higher the tessellation level, the higher the polygon density. We ran the test at 640x480 Windowed with anti-aliasing disabled. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool for the graphics card. This is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. ( RED graph bar means FASTEST in Thousands of Samples per Second.) We rendered the Sala scene using GPUs only. ( RED graph bar means FASTEST time in SECONDS. The Gaussian Blur effect is GPU intensive.

We imported a two minute 1440x1080 Apple ProRes 422 video clip. WHAT THE 2014 DUAL-CORE MAC MINI DOES BETTER The first effect we rendered, Aged Film, is CPU intensive. ( RED bar indicates the fastest time in SECONDS. We converted a two minute 1440x1080 Apple ProRes 422 video to iPad preset (1280x720 H.264). HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. The overall score is an amalgam of Integer, Floating Point, and Memory performance tests. Primate Labs' cross-platform processor benchmark uses a scoring system. The RED bar in the graphs signifies the fastest Mac miniД¬inebench R15 - Render 3D Model using all CPU cores. WHAT THE 2012 MAC MINI QUAD-CORE DOES BETTER Many thanks to Other World Computing, PowerMax, and Create Pro for providing support and resources for benchmarking the three models of Mac mini. Why? The best way to answer is with a shootout between the quad-core 2012 and the dual-core 2014.Дў013 rMBP Quad i7 2.6 = 'late 2013' Retina MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Quad-Core i7 GeForce GT 750M and Intel Iris Pro GraphicsДў012 mini Quad i7 2.3 = 'late 2012' Mac mini 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 Intel HD Graphics 4000Дў014 mini Dual i7 3.0 = 'late 2014' Mac mini 3.0GHz Dual-Core i7 Intel Iris GraphicsДў014 mini Dual i5 2.8 = 'late 2014' Mac mini 2.8GHz Dual-Core i5 Intel Iris Graphics The next day the 2012 Mac mini quad-core started disappearing off the shelves. When the 2014 Mac mini was announced and there was no quad-core i7 option. Posted December 12th, 2014 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist