MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4528 4749
Multi-Core Score 15345 15712
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G84) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-4980HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7920HQ @ 3.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 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 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5 Apple Inc. Mac-551B86E5744E2388 MacBookPro14,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 194.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP143.88Z.0178.B00.1806261159
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4528 4749
AES 3973
2.99 GB/sec 		3375
2.54 GB/sec
LZMA 4487
7.01 MB/sec 		4615
7.21 MB/sec
JPEG 4792
38.6 Mpixels/sec 		5095
41.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4430
61.4 Mpixels/sec 		4848
67.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4497
4.62 MB/sec 		5064
5.20 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5117
3.46 MTE/sec 		4697
3.18 MTE/sec
SQLite 4241
117.6 Krows/sec 		4444
123.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4145
18.8 MB/sec 		4258
19.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5247
4.75 MElements/sec 		5832
5.28 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4195
131.1 Mpixels/sec 		4610
144.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4337
115.2 Mpixels/sec 		5150
136.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7595
522.2 functions/sec 		8427
579.4 functions/sec
Camera 4833
13.4 images/sec 		5470
15.2 images/sec
SGEMM 3782
80.0 Gflops 		5462
115.5 Gflops
SFFT 4122
10.3 Gflops 		5672
14.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3973
2.97 Mpairs/sec 		4922
3.68 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3569
521.2 Kpixels/sec 		4592
670.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4868
14252.6 FPS 		5632
16488.6 FPS
HDR 4425
16.0 Mpixels/sec 		6130
22.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4608
80.7 Mpixels/sec 		5342
93.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4392
37.6 Words/sec 		5712
48.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 4348
1.27 Msubwindows/sec 		4937
1.44 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3699
10.2 GB/sec 		3464
9.60 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5235
82.7 ns 		3110
139.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5097
27.2 GB/sec 		3451
18.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 15345 15712
AES 11556
8.70 GB/sec 		12759
9.61 GB/sec
LZMA 18671
29.2 MB/sec 		18375
28.7 MB/sec
JPEG 19037
153.2 Mpixels/sec 		22311
179.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 17817
247.1 Mpixels/sec 		18556
257.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 16282
16.7 MB/sec 		17485
18.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 26161
17.7 MTE/sec 		16355
11.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 15223
422.0 Krows/sec 		14730
408.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 16333
74.2 MB/sec 		16295
74.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 20095
18.2 MElements/sec 		17928
16.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 18234
569.7 Mpixels/sec 		18359
573.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 17350
460.9 Mpixels/sec 		18480
490.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 28345
1.95 Kfunctions/sec 		34299
2.36 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17323
48.0 images/sec 		21413
59.4 images/sec
SGEMM 13789
291.5 Gflops 		15066
318.5 Gflops
SFFT 17872
44.6 Gflops 		20235
50.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 16652
12.4 Mpairs/sec 		19740
14.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15057
2.20 Mpixels/sec 		17826
2.60 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22915
67082.6 FPS 		27106
79350.3 FPS
HDR 17964
65.1 Mpixels/sec 		22672
82.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17247
302.1 Mpixels/sec 		18437
323.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17911
153.2 Words/sec 		13533
115.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 19512
5.70 Msubwindows/sec 		20573
6.01 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5170
14.3 GB/sec 		4396
12.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5398
80.2 ns 		3053
141.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4606
24.6 GB/sec 		4034
21.5 GB/sec

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