2012 quad slower than 2016 dual?

[dogslobber]

http://barefeats.com/macmin14.html

If you extrapolate the numbers then there might be limited advantage to a 2012 quad for multi core processing. So,perhaps the market will become flooded with cheap quads before next month's intro?

 

[Andres Cantu]

I wouldn't go as far as to say that a 2016 dual-core Mac mini would be faster than a 2012 quad-core. But, it'll probably be really close, not to mention that it would have many generations better graphics (though still not very powerful compared to dGPUs).

 

[jpietrzak8]

If you extrapolate the numbers then there might be limited advantage to a 2012 quad for multi core processing.

I extrapolate that the 2012 Mini will be much, much faster than the 2016 Mini, as there won't be a 2016 Mini.

 

[campyguy]

I'm holding on to my personal and 6 work 2012 i7 Mini Servers, each upgraded with a Samsung 850 Pro (512GB +1TB stock HD in my personal and dual 1TB SSDs in RAID 0 in the work units, used as rendering machines). I'd like to see BF compare an upgraded 2012 quad-core against the newer Minis...

Oh, and mine are paid for!