Better M4 Pro Mini peformance with new OS version or chip quality difference?

[greenmike]

I've seen people review the 14-Core M4 Pro Mini and noticed during the 10 minute Cinebench 2024 test, they reached scores of 1580 (normal fan speed) to 1670 (apparently max fan speed).

On my Mini, I'm scoring 1729 points after running Cinebench 2024.

Is the score different due to the quality of the chip or due to Mac OS 15.2 / 15.3 compared to 15.1 that was used for most of the reviews late last year.

What do you think?

 

[Norbert Mikołajczyk]

Mine also hovers around ~1720 points.
I think different readings could be different os version, different installed apps working in the background, ambient temps etc.

EDIT: 60-100 points difference is rather tiny performance difference in daily usage