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 3058 3756
Multi-Core Score 5774 13497
Geekbench 4.3.4 Geekbench 4.1.2 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A362a)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 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 3072 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5 MacBookPro11,4
BIOS Apple Inc. 226.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP114.88Z.0177.B00.1708080033
Memory 8.00 GB 0 MHz RAM 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 3058 3756
AES 1940
1.46 GB/sec 		3294
2.48 GB/sec
LZMA 3271
5.11 MB/sec 		3361
5.25 MB/sec
JPEG 3499
28.2 Mpixels/sec 		3962
31.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3017
41.9 Mpixels/sec 		3583
49.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2203
2.26 MB/sec 		3795
3.90 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3517
2.38 MTE/sec 		4103
2.78 MTE/sec
SQLite 2584
71.6 Krows/sec 		3591
99.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2736
12.4 MB/sec 		3444
15.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4142
3.75 MElements/sec 		3644
3.30 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2806
87.7 Mpixels/sec 		3197
99.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3498
92.9 Mpixels/sec 		3749
99.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5119
352.0 functions/sec 		6300
433.2 functions/sec
Camera 3505
9.72 images/sec 		3943
10.9 images/sec
SGEMM 1762
37.3 Gflops 		3137
66.3 Gflops
SFFT 3298
8.22 Gflops 		3744
9.34 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2902
2.17 Mpairs/sec 		3421
2.56 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2707
395.4 Kpixels/sec 		2778
405.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3880
11359.0 FPS 		3970
11621.9 FPS
HDR 3233
11.7 Mpixels/sec 		3307
12.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3288
57.6 Mpixels/sec 		3792
66.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3104
26.6 Words/sec 		3440
29.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3095
904.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		3656
1.07 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2477
6.86 GB/sec 		3379
9.36 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5847
74.0 ns 		4978
87.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 1940
10.4 GB/sec 		4286
22.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 5774 13497
AES 5076
3.82 GB/sec 		10900
8.21 GB/sec
LZMA 7239
11.3 MB/sec 		15629
24.4 MB/sec
JPEG 8438
67.9 Mpixels/sec 		19167
154.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6748
93.6 Mpixels/sec 		15045
208.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5276
5.42 MB/sec 		13595
14.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7281
4.93 MTE/sec 		23066
15.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 5527
153.2 Krows/sec 		10609
294.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5769
26.2 MB/sec 		13041
59.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5710
5.17 MElements/sec 		17990
16.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6166
192.7 Mpixels/sec 		15072
470.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6659
176.9 Mpixels/sec 		15359
408.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11284
775.9 functions/sec 		27528
1.89 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8033
22.3 images/sec 		18216
50.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3167
66.9 Gflops 		12323
260.5 Gflops
SFFT 6726
16.8 Gflops 		15927
39.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6185
4.62 Mpairs/sec 		14444
10.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6107
891.9 Kpixels/sec 		12412
1.81 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9237
27040.0 FPS 		19581
57320.5 FPS
HDR 7103
25.7 Mpixels/sec 		16281
59.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6371
111.6 Mpixels/sec 		15392
269.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5433
46.5 Words/sec 		16231
138.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 6805
1.99 Msubwindows/sec 		16390
4.79 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2582
7.16 GB/sec 		4815
13.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5609
77.2 ns 		4963
87.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 1815
9.69 GB/sec 		4285
22.9 GB/sec

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