MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Geekbench 3 Score 2677 1526
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 10646 10157

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.12.6 (Build 16G1314) Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Build 12F45)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
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 6144 KB x 2
L3 Cache 8192 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0C.1509111653 Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410
Memory 16.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Integer 2501 1693
Integer Multicore 11865 11942
AES 2279 128
AES Multicore 9249 934
Twofish 2414 2310
Twofish Multicore 12972 17115
SHA1 2718 2512
SHA1 Multicore 11132 19339
SHA2 2972 2569
SHA2 Multicore 11110 19704
BZip2 Compress 2092 2016
BZip2 Compress Multicore 10368 15063
BZip2 Decompress 2152 2158
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 11567 16316
JPEG Compress 2560 2052
JPEG Compress Multicore 13081 15623
JPEG Decompress 3412 1779
JPEG Decompress Multicore 14755 12177
PNG Compress 2378 1955
PNG Compress Multicore 13751 14936
PNG Decompress 2623 2117
PNG Decompress Multicore 13932 15070
Sobel 2795 1918
Sobel Multicore 12938 12127
Lua 2247 2042
Lua Multicore 10890 14640
Dijkstra 2197 1923
Dijkstra Multicore 9971 8829

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Floating Point 2664 1750
Floating Point Multicore 12692 12800
BlackScholes 3188 1789
BlackScholes Multicore 15759 12902
Mandelbrot 2338 1852
Mandelbrot Multicore 15571 13878
Sharpen Filter 2161 2203
Sharpen Filter Multicore 10824 15885
Blur Filter 1743 2169
Blur Filter Multicore 10035 16051
SGEMM 3224 1390
SGEMM Multicore 12926 10007
DGEMM 2918 1336
DGEMM Multicore 12509 9225
SFFT 2370 1921
SFFT Multicore 9860 14596
DFFT 2547 1723
DFFT Multicore 11417 12102
N-Body 3745 1538
N-Body Multicore 15779 11764
Ray Trace 3024 1802
Ray Trace Multicore 14173 13491

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Memory 3057 748
Memory Multicore 4119 1305
Stream Copy 4096 957
Stream Copy Multicore 5371 1550
Stream Scale 2947 740
Stream Scale Multicore 3752 1233
Stream Add 2666 644
Stream Add Multicore 3733 1214
Stream Triad 2716 690
Stream Triad Multicore 3830 1251