MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 4366 4705
Multi-Core Score 15510 20872
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G2022) macOS 10.16 (Build 21G83)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-8850H @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 6144 KB 9216 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 157.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1731.140.2.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.16066.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 4366 4705
AES 3535
2.66 GB/sec 		3224
2.43 GB/sec
LZMA 4193
6.55 MB/sec 		4155
6.49 MB/sec
JPEG 4481
36.1 Mpixels/sec 		4935
39.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4089
56.7 Mpixels/sec 		4400
61.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4197
4.31 MB/sec 		4935
5.07 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4996
3.38 MTE/sec 		5037
3.41 MTE/sec
SQLite 3871
107.3 Krows/sec 		4586
127.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3831
17.4 MB/sec 		4374
19.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5081
4.60 MElements/sec 		6057
5.49 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4017
125.5 Mpixels/sec 		4816
150.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5073
134.8 Mpixels/sec 		6924
183.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7424
510.5 functions/sec 		8205
564.1 functions/sec
Camera 4573
12.7 images/sec 		4958
13.7 images/sec
SGEMM 3540
74.8 Gflops 		4893
103.4 Gflops
SFFT 4065
10.1 Gflops 		4728
11.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3730
2.79 Mpairs/sec 		4544
3.39 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3290
480.5 Kpixels/sec 		4075
595.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4468
13079.6 FPS 		5185
15180.9 FPS
HDR 4186
15.2 Mpixels/sec 		5003
18.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4296
75.3 Mpixels/sec 		4961
86.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4525
38.7 Words/sec 		4922
42.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 4000
1.17 Msubwindows/sec 		4598
1.34 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3842
10.6 GB/sec 		3800
10.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5540
78.2 ns 		4443
97.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4790
25.6 GB/sec 		3629
19.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Multi-Core Score 15510 20872
AES 11883
8.95 GB/sec 		14685
11.1 GB/sec
LZMA 17577
27.5 MB/sec 		24751
38.7 MB/sec
JPEG 21118
169.9 Mpixels/sec 		29574
238.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16897
234.3 Mpixels/sec 		24738
343.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15713
16.1 MB/sec 		25396
26.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 26993
18.3 MTE/sec 		19794
13.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 14515
402.4 Krows/sec 		22641
627.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15005
68.1 MB/sec 		21347
96.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 19341
17.5 MElements/sec 		21858
19.8 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17418
544.2 Mpixels/sec 		27728
866.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 20495
544.5 Mpixels/sec 		25288
671.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 31611
2.17 Kfunctions/sec 		49935
3.43 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 20155
55.9 images/sec 		29852
82.8 images/sec
SGEMM 13201
279.0 Gflops 		15556
328.8 Gflops
SFFT 17712
44.2 Gflops 		28830
71.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 16164
12.1 Mpairs/sec 		28513
21.3 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15325
2.24 Mpixels/sec 		24073
3.52 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22313
65320.5 FPS 		38058
111409.8 FPS
HDR 18869
68.4 Mpixels/sec 		27396
99.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18179
318.5 Mpixels/sec 		26704
467.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18069
154.6 Words/sec 		14217
121.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 18119
5.29 Msubwindows/sec 		30690
8.96 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5257
14.6 GB/sec 		4942
13.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5722
75.7 ns 		4236
102.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4804
25.7 GB/sec 		4409
23.5 GB/sec

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