MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Geekbench 3 Score 2870 1842
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 10602 13970

System Information

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.12.6 (Build 16G1618) Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Build 12E55)
Model MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Processor Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30 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 42 Stepping 7 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-942459F5819B171B MacBookPro8,3 Apple Inc. Mac-F221BEC8
BIOS Apple Inc. 82.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MP41.88Z.0081.B07.0910130729
Memory 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 24.00 GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Integer 2910 1738
Integer Multicore 12465 15251
AES 2784 156
AES Multicore 8019 1269
Twofish 2621 2017
Twofish Multicore 13178 20661
SHA1 2796 2412
SHA1 Multicore 11352 17081
SHA2 3002 2446
SHA2 Multicore 11405 17836
BZip2 Compress 2574 1788
BZip2 Compress Multicore 12328 17618
BZip2 Decompress 2527 1855
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 12673 19102
JPEG Compress 3189 2046
JPEG Compress Multicore 15393 21303
JPEG Decompress 4199 2853
JPEG Decompress Multicore 17354 23848
PNG Compress 2907 2172
PNG Compress Multicore 15216 21918
PNG Decompress 3025 2120
PNG Decompress Multicore 14357 21050
Sobel 3115 2065
Sobel Multicore 13918 16506
Lua 2810 1997
Lua Multicore 11678 18013
Dijkstra 2622 1938
Dijkstra Multicore 8655 12892

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Floating Point 3029 1979
Floating Point Multicore 12743 17562
BlackScholes 3680 2260
BlackScholes Multicore 17182 21739
Mandelbrot 2663 2139
Mandelbrot Multicore 14743 22727
Sharpen Filter 2685 2005
Sharpen Filter Multicore 11551 17698
Blur Filter 2157 1696
Blur Filter Multicore 10851 16412
SGEMM 3937 2224
SGEMM Multicore 14032 18050
DGEMM 3676 2092
DGEMM Multicore 13177 17568
SFFT 2715 1599
SFFT Multicore 10389 12295
DFFT 2705 1751
DFFT Multicore 10590 14717
N-Body 3017 1837
N-Body Multicore 11765 16017
Ray Trace 3576 2344
Ray Trace Multicore 14868 21162

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Memory 2476 1778
Memory Multicore 2594 4226
Stream Copy 2509 1854
Stream Copy Multicore 2633 4331
Stream Scale 2501 1827
Stream Scale Multicore 2556 4269
Stream Add 2466 1706
Stream Add Multicore 2534 4116
Stream Triad 2432 1732
Stream Triad Multicore 2655 4193