MacBook (Early 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 1096 2628
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 1811 10485

System Information

MacBook (Early 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.10 (Build 14A388a) Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Build 14F2315)
Model MacBook (Early 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 @ 2.13 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 3072 KB 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 0 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F22788AA Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MB52.88Z.0088.B06.0906031930 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0C.1509111653
Memory 4.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook (Early 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Integer 1158 2516
Integer Multicore 1923 11942
AES 88 2292
AES Multicore 135 9364
Twofish 1503 2436
Twofish Multicore 2925 13420
SHA1 1859 2750
SHA1 Multicore 2359 11352
SHA2 1684 3017
SHA2 Multicore 2454 11552
BZip2 Compress 1319 2113
BZip2 Compress Multicore 2071 10991
BZip2 Decompress 1433 2178
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 1924 11950
JPEG Compress 1458 2549
JPEG Compress Multicore 2640 13298
JPEG Decompress 1314 3479
JPEG Decompress Multicore 2174 15798
PNG Compress 1464 2383
PNG Compress Multicore 2823 13633
PNG Decompress 1569 2627
PNG Decompress Multicore 2965 12845
Sobel 1285 2818
Sobel Multicore 2385 12981
Lua 1330 2265
Lua Multicore 2228 10798
Dijkstra 1152 2151
Dijkstra Multicore 2124 9009

Floating Point Performance

MacBook (Early 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Floating Point 1285 2667
Floating Point Multicore 2284 12585
BlackScholes 1561 3190
BlackScholes Multicore 2659 15997
Mandelbrot 1322 2337
Mandelbrot Multicore 2330 15177
Sharpen Filter 1616 2164
Sharpen Filter Multicore 2720 10660
Blur Filter 1625 1745
Blur Filter Multicore 3150 9705
SGEMM 980 3219
SGEMM Multicore 1677 12888
DGEMM 917 2909
DGEMM Multicore 1855 12437
SFFT 1360 2381
SFFT Multicore 2442 9863
DFFT 1285 2564
DFFT Multicore 2297 11226
N-Body 1134 3748
N-Body Multicore 1889 15805
Ray Trace 1276 3029
Ray Trace Multicore 2209 14156

Memory Performance

MacBook (Early 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Memory 597 2775
Memory Multicore 643 3373
Stream Copy 892 3755
Stream Copy Multicore 1083 4332
Stream Scale 485 2677
Stream Scale Multicore 491 3094
Stream Add 586 2407
Stream Add Multicore 557 3071
Stream Triad 502 2452
Stream Triad Multicore 579 3148