Mac Pro 2006 or Mac Mini 2014?

Hello everyone,
I want to buy a Mac. I have the choice between a used Mac Pro 2006 (8 cores with 2 quad core 2.66ghz, 32gigs of ram, wifi, bluetooth, superdrive, radeon hd4890 for mac, hdd 250gigs. Yosemite installed.) or a brand new Mac Mini (2.6GHz 4th Gen dual-core Intel Core i5 processor with 8GB of RAM and Intel Iris Graphics).
The price for each is 750$.
What would you do?
Thank you!
neuhaus3000

The new Mac Mini is a Joke.
Dual Cores, what is this early 2000's
Geekbench of 6000+
I don't see that paticulary MacPro, but even the original had a Geekbench score of around 6000.
You can check at everymac.com
As for video the ATI Radion hd4890 Seems to be much better
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=42&cmp[]=2692
The only real advantages are USB3,Thunder Bolt2 and size.

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