MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 2242 3311
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 4809 6829

System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mac OS X 10.9.0
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-94245B3640C91C81 MacBookPro8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0047.B27.1201241646 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B08.1208081132
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Integer 2042 3249
Integer Multicore 5266 7649
AES 2276 3017
AES Multicore 4479 6004
Twofish 2112 3151
Twofish Multicore 5098 8377
SHA1 2311 3615
SHA1 Multicore 4730 7202
SHA2 1809 3844
SHA2 Multicore 4321 7296
BZip2 Compress 2107 2785
BZip2 Compress Multicore 5110 6840
BZip2 Decompress 2129 2894
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 5564 7543
JPEG Compress 1946 3395
JPEG Compress Multicore 5855 8319
JPEG Decompress 2091 4251
JPEG Decompress Multicore 7147 9912
PNG Compress 2430 3157
PNG Compress Multicore 6593 8704
PNG Decompress 2583 3462
PNG Decompress Multicore 6140 8790
Sobel 1655 3571
Sobel Multicore 4996 8173
Lua 1683 2979
Lua Multicore 4468 6716
Dijkstra 1684 2526
Dijkstra Multicore 4782 6504

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Floating Point 2215 3420
Floating Point Multicore 5314 7873
BlackScholes 3092 4228
BlackScholes Multicore 7272 10064
Mandelbrot 2196 3106
Mandelbrot Multicore 6201 9849
Sharpen Filter 1622 2894
Sharpen Filter Multicore 4122 6811
Blur Filter 1227 2253
Blur Filter Multicore 4678 6160
SGEMM 2856 3432
SGEMM Multicore 5873 8064
DGEMM 3023 3836
DGEMM Multicore 5696 7790
SFFT 2024 3134
SFFT Multicore 4165 5954
DFFT 2293 3374
DFFT Multicore 4761 6830
N-Body 1861 4938
N-Body Multicore 4727 9916
Ray Trace 2833 3729
Ray Trace Multicore 6595 8696

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Memory 2700 3221
Memory Multicore 2889 3103
Stream Copy 2885 4354
Stream Copy Multicore 2950 3906
Stream Scale 2893 2994
Stream Scale Multicore 3003 2910
Stream Add 2810 2836
Stream Add Multicore 2857 2766
Stream Triad 2269 2914
Stream Triad Multicore 2754 2952