MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3502 3938
Multi-Core Score 6777 13863
Geekbench 4.3.3 Geekbench 4.2.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D109) macOS 10.13.1 (Build 17B48)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4770HQ @ 2.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5 MacBookPro11,4
BIOS Apple Inc. 222.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP114.88Z.0177.B00.1708080033
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3502 3938
AES 2784
2.10 GB/sec 		3378
2.54 GB/sec
LZMA 3404
5.32 MB/sec 		3399
5.31 MB/sec
JPEG 3967
31.9 Mpixels/sec 		3870
31.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3375
46.8 Mpixels/sec 		3623
50.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2499
2.57 MB/sec 		3796
3.90 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3763
2.55 MTE/sec 		4306
2.91 MTE/sec
SQLite 2677
74.2 Krows/sec 		3355
93.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2884
13.1 MB/sec 		3460
15.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4527
4.10 MElements/sec 		4656
4.22 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3236
101.1 Mpixels/sec 		3600
112.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3968
105.4 Mpixels/sec 		3819
101.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5445
374.4 functions/sec 		6857
471.5 functions/sec
Camera 3691
10.2 images/sec 		4144
11.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1943
41.1 Gflops 		3253
68.8 Gflops
SFFT 3713
9.26 Gflops 		3731
9.30 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3215
2.40 Mpairs/sec 		3440
2.57 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2963
432.7 Kpixels/sec 		2971
433.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4291
12561.9 FPS 		4064
11899.2 FPS
HDR 3499
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		3793
13.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3642
63.8 Mpixels/sec 		3958
69.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3485
29.8 Words/sec 		4058
34.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 3477
1.02 Msubwindows/sec 		3765
1.10 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3543
9.82 GB/sec 		3640
10.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5421
79.9 ns 		5180
83.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3119
16.7 GB/sec 		4469
23.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 6777 13863
AES 5764
4.34 GB/sec 		11210
8.44 GB/sec
LZMA 8008
12.5 MB/sec 		15879
24.8 MB/sec
JPEG 9496
76.4 Mpixels/sec 		19226
154.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8052
111.7 Mpixels/sec 		15554
215.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4744
4.88 MB/sec 		13774
14.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8207
5.55 MTE/sec 		23844
16.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 4683
129.8 Krows/sec 		12018
333.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5094
23.1 MB/sec 		13157
59.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9085
8.23 MElements/sec 		17981
16.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7029
219.6 Mpixels/sec 		15108
472.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8774
233.1 Mpixels/sec 		15287
406.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12149
835.3 functions/sec 		28522
1.96 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9372
26.0 images/sec 		18316
50.8 images/sec
SGEMM 3718
78.6 Gflops 		12307
260.1 Gflops
SFFT 7678
19.1 Gflops 		15791
39.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7253
5.42 Mpairs/sec 		14466
10.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7115
1.04 Mpixels/sec 		13498
1.97 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10759
31496.6 FPS 		20128
58922.3 FPS
HDR 8601
31.2 Mpixels/sec 		17119
62.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7481
131.1 Mpixels/sec 		15825
277.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 7135
61.1 Words/sec 		16733
143.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 7888
2.30 Msubwindows/sec 		16654
4.86 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4634
12.8 GB/sec 		5104
14.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5535
78.2 ns 		5293
81.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3461
18.5 GB/sec 		4626
24.7 GB/sec

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