Mini Server vs. MacPro 2x 2.8GHz Quad Core

[DHart]

At present I'm using this machine with 10GB of RAM:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8

almost exclusively for LightRoom 3.5 editing of large (Canon 5DMkII) RAW files. Seems like this may be more machine than I need, overall, for this purpose. SO I'm thinking of doing a trade in on the new Mini Server, maxed out with RAM and processor.

The MacPro works great. But I'm wondering how close to this performance I might get with the new Mini Server, a maxed-out version.

Does anyone know how these two machines might compare for LR3 processing of large RAW files?

 

[DustinT]

Double posting is a bad idea. You have the same thread in the Mac Mini forum which is not recommended. Once is enough.

 

[DHart]

There was no response of any kind, after days, with the other thread. It was only after seeing no activity there that I decided to try in this different forum.

 

[fs454]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1193336/

they Geekbench around 9400. My 2.8ghz octo mac pro hits 10-11,000.

I got a bit sad reading that actually, I've put my MP on a pedestal for so long and a Mac Mini almost matched its benchmarks.

You still have four processing cores on top of what the Mini has. Parallel processing is great to have when editing video/encoding, but honestly, it's getting close.