MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3755 5739
Multi-Core Score 11594 18384
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2338c)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
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 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 224.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B08.1604111319
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 64.00 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3755 5739
AES 3000
2.26 GB/sec 		3772
2.84 GB/sec
LZMA 3890
6.08 MB/sec 		5187
8.10 MB/sec
JPEG 4060
32.7 Mpixels/sec 		5890
47.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3626
50.3 Mpixels/sec 		5508
76.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2772
2.85 MB/sec 		5585
5.74 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4220
2.86 MTE/sec 		6343
4.29 MTE/sec
SQLite 2889
80.1 Krows/sec 		5149
142.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3038
13.8 MB/sec 		5009
22.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4783
4.33 MElements/sec 		5229
4.74 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3369
105.3 Mpixels/sec 		5368
167.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4637
123.2 Mpixels/sec 		5372
142.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6128
421.4 functions/sec 		6597
453.6 functions/sec
Camera 4130
11.5 images/sec 		6010
16.7 images/sec
SGEMM 2115
44.7 Gflops 		6164
130.3 Gflops
SFFT 4007
9.99 Gflops 		6342
15.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3363
2.51 Mpairs/sec 		5555
4.15 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3174
463.6 Kpixels/sec 		5094
743.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4514
13216.7 FPS 		6192
18128.1 FPS
HDR 3757
13.6 Mpixels/sec 		6714
24.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3854
67.5 Mpixels/sec 		5886
103.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4320
37.0 Words/sec 		6335
54.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3579
1.05 Msubwindows/sec 		5495
1.61 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3802
10.5 GB/sec 		6305
17.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5233
82.7 ns 		6799
15.7 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3203
17.1 GB/sec 		5715
30.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 11594 18384
AES 11287
8.50 GB/sec 		19561
14.7 GB/sec
LZMA 16360
25.6 MB/sec 		23447
36.6 MB/sec
JPEG 19372
155.9 Mpixels/sec 		28127
226.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15357
213.0 Mpixels/sec 		24253
336.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12465
12.8 MB/sec 		21675
22.3 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14995
10.1 MTE/sec 		25371
17.2 MTE/sec
SQLite 12591
349.1 Krows/sec 		6599
182.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12897
58.6 MB/sec 		20684
93.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12382
11.2 MElements/sec 		14476
13.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14110
440.9 Mpixels/sec 		22240
694.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 15753
418.5 Mpixels/sec 		23593
626.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 26169
1.80 Kfunctions/sec 		13015
894.9 functions/sec
Camera 16738
46.4 images/sec 		25582
70.9 images/sec
SGEMM 5333
112.7 Gflops 		19464
411.4 Gflops
SFFT 12063
30.1 Gflops 		26013
64.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 11399
8.51 Mpairs/sec 		24224
18.1 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 10409
1.52 Mpixels/sec 		23346
3.41 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 15582
45616.1 FPS 		29916
87576.2 FPS
HDR 11579
42.0 Mpixels/sec 		28526
103.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9633
168.8 Mpixels/sec 		25303
443.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10736
91.9 Words/sec 		17464
149.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 12440
3.63 Msubwindows/sec 		26126
7.63 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4821
13.4 GB/sec 		7609
21.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5395
80.2 ns 		6775
15.6 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3541
18.9 GB/sec 		6307
33.7 GB/sec

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