MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3027 4003
Multi-Core Score 9707 6683
Geekbench 4.3.1 Tryout Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G87)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-2720QM @ 2.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-94245A3940C91C80 MacBookPro8,2 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0047.B3A.1706170652 Apple Inc. 194.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3027 4003
AES 2469
1.86 GB/sec 		3456
2.60 GB/sec
LZMA 2977
4.65 MB/sec 		4097
6.40 MB/sec
JPEG 3349
27.0 Mpixels/sec 		4483
36.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3002
41.6 Mpixels/sec 		4119
57.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2200
2.26 MB/sec 		4210
4.33 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3333
2.26 MTE/sec 		4615
3.12 MTE/sec
SQLite 2396
66.4 Krows/sec 		3647
101.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2474
11.2 MB/sec 		3944
17.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3863
3.50 MElements/sec 		4903
4.44 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2568
80.2 Mpixels/sec 		3941
123.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3048
81.0 Mpixels/sec 		5075
134.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4772
328.1 functions/sec 		7193
494.6 functions/sec
Camera 3233
8.97 images/sec 		4216
11.7 images/sec
SGEMM 1612
34.1 Gflops 		3526
74.5 Gflops
SFFT 3200
7.98 Gflops 		4173
10.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2438
1.82 Mpairs/sec 		3289
2.46 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2481
362.4 Kpixels/sec 		3250
474.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3591
10514.8 FPS 		4436
12988.1 FPS
HDR 2816
10.2 Mpixels/sec 		3766
13.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3167
55.5 Mpixels/sec 		4102
71.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3441
29.4 Words/sec 		3946
33.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 3064
895.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		3950
1.15 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2971
8.23 GB/sec 		3727
10.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5592
77.4 ns 		5082
85.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2578
13.8 GB/sec 		2068
11.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 9707 6683
AES 7805
5.88 GB/sec 		3076
2.32 GB/sec
LZMA 13567
21.2 MB/sec 		6052
9.45 MB/sec
JPEG 16286
131.0 Mpixels/sec 		8162
65.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 12261
170.0 Mpixels/sec 		9163
127.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 9823
10.1 MB/sec 		8689
8.93 MB/sec
Dijkstra 12984
8.79 MTE/sec 		16408
11.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 8063
223.5 Krows/sec 		8527
236.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 9836
44.7 MB/sec 		7554
34.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8044
7.29 MElements/sec 		9183
8.32 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 10618
331.8 Mpixels/sec 		7811
244.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 9917
263.5 Mpixels/sec 		8264
219.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 20646
1.42 Kfunctions/sec 		12189
838.1 functions/sec
Camera 14335
39.7 images/sec 		7330
20.3 images/sec
SGEMM 5024
106.2 Gflops 		5080
107.4 Gflops
SFFT 12444
31.0 Gflops 		6055
15.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 9871
7.37 Mpairs/sec 		5364
4.01 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 10929
1.60 Mpixels/sec 		6686
976.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 17035
49868.4 FPS 		6933
20295.9 FPS
HDR 12439
45.1 Mpixels/sec 		3522
12.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11424
200.1 Mpixels/sec 		3274
57.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9458
80.9 Words/sec 		6765
57.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 13330
3.89 Msubwindows/sec 		7285
2.13 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3520
9.75 GB/sec 		4422
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5640
76.8 ns 		4853
89.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3020
16.1 GB/sec 		4587
24.5 GB/sec

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