MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) vs MacBook Pro (Retina)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Single-Core Score 5692 3467
Multi-Core Score 25285 11697
Geekbench 4.3.4 Geekbench 4.2.3 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F203) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G1114)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Processor Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 12288 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1 Apple Inc. Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F MacBookPro10,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.260.171.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.5200.0.0,0) Apple Inc. MBP101.88Z.00F2.B00.1708080809
Memory 32.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Single-Core Score 5692 3467
AES 5167
3.89 GB/sec 		2825
2.13 GB/sec
LZMA 5275
8.24 MB/sec 		3505
5.48 MB/sec
JPEG 5906
47.5 Mpixels/sec 		3550
28.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5426
75.3 Mpixels/sec 		3264
45.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5764
5.92 MB/sec 		2437
2.51 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7948
5.38 MTE/sec 		4002
2.71 MTE/sec
SQLite 5144
142.6 Krows/sec 		2653
73.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5846
26.5 MB/sec 		2787
12.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6633
6.01 MElements/sec 		4366
3.96 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5330
166.6 Mpixels/sec 		2942
91.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6751
179.4 Mpixels/sec 		3302
87.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9832
676.0 functions/sec 		5581
383.8 functions/sec
Camera 6042
16.8 images/sec 		3668
10.2 images/sec
SGEMM 6293
133.0 Gflops 		1920
40.6 Gflops
SFFT 6314
15.7 Gflops 		3711
9.25 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5639
4.21 Mpairs/sec 		2963
2.21 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5216
761.8 Kpixels/sec 		2862
417.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6539
19144.0 FPS 		4085
11959.5 FPS
HDR 6772
24.5 Mpixels/sec 		3450
12.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6120
107.2 Mpixels/sec 		3469
60.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6622
56.7 Words/sec 		3953
33.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 5408
1.58 Msubwindows/sec 		3286
959.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4458
12.4 GB/sec 		3940
10.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3650
118.6 ns 		5642
76.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4151
22.2 GB/sec 		3088
16.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Multi-Core Score 25285 11697
AES 16908
12.7 GB/sec 		11180
8.42 GB/sec
LZMA 28312
44.2 MB/sec 		15183
23.7 MB/sec
JPEG 37030
298.0 Mpixels/sec 		17659
142.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 27900
386.9 Mpixels/sec 		14178
196.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 29505
30.3 MB/sec 		11435
11.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24539
16.6 MTE/sec 		15645
10.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 28725
796.3 Krows/sec 		9274
257.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 32411
147.1 MB/sec 		11635
52.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 27795
25.2 MElements/sec 		12890
11.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 31756
992.2 Mpixels/sec 		12618
394.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 31851
846.2 Mpixels/sec 		12533
333.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 58508
4.02 Kfunctions/sec 		24088
1.66 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 37335
103.5 images/sec 		16055
44.5 images/sec
SGEMM 21160
447.3 Gflops 		6777
143.3 Gflops
SFFT 33241
82.9 Gflops 		14297
35.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 32154
24.0 Mpairs/sec 		12827
9.58 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 29005
4.24 Mpixels/sec 		12837
1.87 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 44929
131522.9 FPS 		19678
57604.6 FPS
HDR 36321
131.7 Mpixels/sec 		15009
54.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 30854
540.5 Mpixels/sec 		13072
229.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17515
149.9 Words/sec 		11742
100.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 36493
10.7 Msubwindows/sec 		14374
4.20 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5842
16.2 GB/sec 		5023
13.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3313
130.7 ns 		5609
77.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4881
26.1 GB/sec 		3647
19.5 GB/sec

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