Noise Ninja is a Plugin for Aperture for removing noise and grain from digital photographs. ( LOWER number in seconds is FASTER)Īpple Aperture 3's first task was to convert 50 RAW images to original size JPEG and export them. ( LOWER number in seconds is FASTER)Īpple Final Cut Pro X leans hard on the GPU when rendering the Directional Blur effect on our sample project made up of eight HD clips. ( LOWER number in seconds is FASTER)Ī Photoshop CS6 filter that's more CPU intensive is 'Reduce Noise.' The mini does better on this test - actually beating our RMBP. The OpenCL advanced setting is grayed out in the case of the Mac mini so its CPU has to do the heavy lifting. Mac mini quad i7 = 2012 Mac mini with 2.6GHz CPU Quad-Core i7 and integrated Intel HD 4000 GPUĪdobe Photoshop CS6 uses OpenCL acceleration on certain filters like Field Blur, Iris Blur, and Tilt/Shift. Therefore we believe some insights can be gained by the Mac faithful trying to decide whether to jump on the Mac mini to run their pro apps or sit tight until the 'very late 2012' iMac ships.ġ5' RMBP quad i7 = 2012 Retina MacBook Pro with 2.7GHz Quad-Core i7 CPU and GeForce GT 650M GPU - (Surrogate for the soon-to-be released 21.5' iMac with similar specs) Plus the 2.7GHz RMBP has a core clock speed very close to our 2.6GHz Mac mini test unit.

Now the 'late 2012' iMac with the 21.5' screen will have a Quad-Core i7 'Ivy Bridge' processor running at a higher clock speed (3.1GHz) than the RMBP, but it will have the same GPU (GeForce GT 650M). Since the 2012 iMac isn't available yet, we decided to use a 'surrogate': the 2012 Retina 15' MacBook Pro which has similar 'guts' - an 'Ivy Bridge' Quad-Core i7 and discrete GeForce GT 650M GPU. Mac mini with a Quad-Core i7 processor can match the performance of a 'late 2012' iMac with Quad-Core i7 processor when running real world applications. Some readers are asking if the 'late 2012'

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