MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Geekbench 3 Score 3283 1711
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 12813 12327

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.9.4 (Build 13E28) Mac OS X 10.9 (Build 13A603)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Processor Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.26 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5
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 8192 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F221BEC8
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B08.1208081132 Apple Inc. MP41.88Z.0081.B07.0910130729
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 14.00 GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Integer 3270 1536
Integer Multicore 14121 13168
AES 2948 116
AES Multicore 6638 942
Twofish 3173 1966
Twofish Multicore 15321 17052
SHA1 3597 2257
SHA1 Multicore 13108 15857
SHA2 3912 2230
SHA2 Multicore 13613 15500
BZip2 Compress 2763 1773
BZip2 Compress Multicore 13999 17825
BZip2 Decompress 2861 1906
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 15209 19195
JPEG Compress 3299 1834
JPEG Compress Multicore 17445 18040
JPEG Decompress 4624 1765
JPEG Decompress Multicore 20174 14373
PNG Compress 3172 1870
PNG Compress Multicore 17852 17172
PNG Decompress 3415 1828
PNG Decompress Multicore 16911 17551
Sobel 3697 1669
Sobel Multicore 16858 14583
Lua 2936 1822
Lua Multicore 13984 16027
Dijkstra 2620 2038
Dijkstra Multicore 9177 14510

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Floating Point 3556 1857
Floating Point Multicore 16425 16016
BlackScholes 4222 2081
BlackScholes Multicore 20396 19804
Mandelbrot 3108 2140
Mandelbrot Multicore 20155 22659
Sharpen Filter 2892 1990
Sharpen Filter Multicore 14105 16013
Blur Filter 2320 1765
Blur Filter Multicore 12906 15046
SGEMM 4324 1962
SGEMM Multicore 16570 15712
DGEMM 3913 1894
DGEMM Multicore 16286 15227
SFFT 3175 1691
SFFT Multicore 12755 12717
DFFT 3420 1805
DFFT Multicore 14532 14947
N-Body 4958 1618
N-Body Multicore 20513 14132
Ray Trace 4042 1703
Ray Trace Multicore 18615 15989

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Memory 2765 1772
Memory Multicore 2974 3270
Stream Copy 3688 1846
Stream Copy Multicore 3816 3544
Stream Scale 2575 1824
Stream Scale Multicore 2717 3232
Stream Add 2437 1697
Stream Add Multicore 2707 3016
Stream Triad 2529 1729
Stream Triad Multicore 2788 3311