MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4248 3248
Multi-Core Score 13151 10599
Geekbench 4.0.3 Geekbench 4.0.1

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2659) macOS 10.12 (Build 16A323)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-6820HQ @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
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 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C MacBookPro13,3 Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP133.88Z.0226.B00.1610231055 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0D.1602221713
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4248 3248
AES 3995
3.01 GB/sec 		2722
2.05 GB/sec
LZMA 3701
5.78 MB/sec 		3372
5.27 MB/sec
JPEG 4405
35.4 Mpixels/sec 		3558
28.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4269
59.2 Mpixels/sec 		3068
42.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4299
4.42 MB/sec 		2431
2.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4127
2.79 MTE/sec 		3518
2.38 MTE/sec
SQLite 3598
99.7 Krows/sec 		2698
74.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3949
17.9 MB/sec 		2577
11.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3838
3.48 MElements/sec 		3579
3.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3666
114.5 Mpixels/sec 		2884
90.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4048
107.6 Mpixels/sec 		3097
82.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4550
312.9 functions/sec 		3664
251.9 functions/sec
Camera 4264
11.8 images/sec 		3491
9.68 images/sec
SGEMM 4747
100.4 Gflops 		1847
39.0 Gflops
SFFT 5058
12.6 Gflops 		3582
8.93 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4326
3.23 Mpairs/sec 		2973
2.22 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4053
591.9 Kpixels/sec 		2750
401.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4892
14321.7 FPS 		3839
11239.9 FPS
HDR 5035
18.3 Mpixels/sec 		3187
11.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4266
74.7 Mpixels/sec 		3261
57.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4996
42.7 Words/sec 		3756
32.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3962
1.16 Msubwindows/sec 		3212
938.4 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4472
12.4 GB/sec 		3780
10.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4116
9.51 Moperations/sec 		5345
12.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4244
22.7 GB/sec 		2868
15.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 13151 10599
AES 13453
10.1 GB/sec 		9569
7.21 GB/sec
LZMA 17041
26.6 MB/sec 		14845
23.2 MB/sec
JPEG 19323
155.5 Mpixels/sec 		17627
141.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16836
233.5 Mpixels/sec 		14126
195.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15910
16.4 MB/sec 		11482
11.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 16776
11.4 MTE/sec 		14597
9.88 MTE/sec
SQLite 5846
162.1 Krows/sec 		5614
155.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14944
67.8 MB/sec 		11389
51.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9955
9.02 MElements/sec 		7513
6.81 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 15732
491.6 Mpixels/sec 		12410
387.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 16854
447.7 Mpixels/sec 		12552
333.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10124
696.1 functions/sec 		11025
758.1 functions/sec
Camera 19344
53.6 images/sec 		16262
45.1 images/sec
SGEMM 14182
299.8 Gflops 		6771
143.1 Gflops
SFFT 18291
45.6 Gflops 		14213
35.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17532
13.1 Mpairs/sec 		12687
9.48 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 16677
2.44 Mpixels/sec 		12611
1.84 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22937
67146.4 FPS 		19296
56488.8 FPS
HDR 20719
75.1 Mpixels/sec 		14893
54.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17886
313.3 Mpixels/sec 		12606
220.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 12240
104.7 Words/sec 		11360
97.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 17764
5.19 Msubwindows/sec 		14367
4.20 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5378
14.9 GB/sec 		4872
13.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4073
9.41 Moperations/sec 		5578
12.9 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4105
21.9 GB/sec 		3559
19.0 GB/sec

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