Is 2011 mac mini faster then 2011 MBP?

Hello
I am thinking on buying a Mac Mini to replace my MBP for 'desktop' computing and keep the MBP for only portable work.
Is the 999$ 2.0 Ghz i7 Mac Mini faster or at least same speed as 1799$ 2.0 Ghz i7 early 2011 MBP ?
Thanks!

Be aware (if you have not looked already) that the new MacMini does not have an internal optical drive. One contributor discussions delayed if not abandoned buying new MacMini for this reason.
The tech specs page boast "DVD optical drive sharing wirelessly", but that is likely only Mac-to-mac.
Means those left at home without the MBP need an external optical drive. But ... that means you can buy a BluRay drive.
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Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
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L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB
L2 Cache: 3.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
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Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 1477, , 64.9 MB/sec
Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 3254, , 133.4 MB/sec
Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1575, , 5.04 MB/sec
Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3204, , 10.5 MB/sec
Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1426, , 5.86 MB/sec
Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3070, , 12.2 MB/sec
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Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3081, , 25.9 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1322, , 22.2 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 2579, , 42.1 Mpixels/sec
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Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 4822, , 1.85 Mnodes/sec
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Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 3259, , 2.13 Gflops
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Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 6285, , 2.86 Gflops
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Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 5399, , 5.61 Gflops
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Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 5454, , 4.32 Mpixels/sec
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Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2587, , 1.77 GB/sec
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Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 1922, , 2.59 GB/sec
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