MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4689 3156
Multi-Core Score 16549 11129
Geekbench 4.4.2 Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.15.1 (Build 19B88) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G1918)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-4980HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 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 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 157.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 224.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4689 3156
AES 3982
3.00 GB/sec 		2782
2.10 GB/sec
LZMA 4551
7.11 MB/sec 		3453
5.39 MB/sec
JPEG 4813
38.7 Mpixels/sec 		3515
28.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4432
61.5 Mpixels/sec 		3205
44.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4493
4.62 MB/sec 		2300
2.36 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5273
3.57 MTE/sec 		3499
2.37 MTE/sec
SQLite 4222
117.1 Krows/sec 		2400
66.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4398
20.0 MB/sec 		2555
11.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5376
4.87 MElements/sec 		4006
3.63 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4409
137.8 Mpixels/sec 		2733
85.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5460
145.1 Mpixels/sec 		2946
78.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7639
525.3 functions/sec 		4947
340.2 functions/sec
Camera 4942
13.7 images/sec 		3294
9.14 images/sec
SGEMM 3879
82.0 Gflops 		1653
34.9 Gflops
SFFT 4495
11.2 Gflops 		3271
8.15 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4089
3.05 Mpairs/sec 		2787
2.08 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3549
518.4 Kpixels/sec 		2684
392.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4874
14268.1 FPS 		3729
10916.5 FPS
HDR 4467
16.2 Mpixels/sec 		3155
11.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4699
82.3 Mpixels/sec 		3011
52.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4821
41.2 Words/sec 		3514
30.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 4393
1.28 Msubwindows/sec 		2969
867.2 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3926
10.9 GB/sec 		3470
9.61 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5605
77.2 ns 		4948
87.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5136
27.4 GB/sec 		2721
14.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 16549 11129
AES 12052
9.08 GB/sec 		9768
7.36 GB/sec
LZMA 18969
29.6 MB/sec 		15066
23.5 MB/sec
JPEG 22910
184.3 Mpixels/sec 		17706
142.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 18302
253.8 Mpixels/sec 		13533
187.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 16606
17.1 MB/sec 		11136
11.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 28381
19.2 MTE/sec 		13751
9.31 MTE/sec
SQLite 15707
435.4 Krows/sec 		8249
228.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 16431
74.6 MB/sec 		11301
51.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 20573
18.6 MElements/sec 		11342
10.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 18985
593.2 Mpixels/sec 		12608
393.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 21942
582.9 Mpixels/sec 		11769
312.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 33686
2.32 Kfunctions/sec 		23391
1.61 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 21828
60.5 images/sec 		16159
44.8 images/sec
SGEMM 14239
301.0 Gflops 		6640
140.4 Gflops
SFFT 18685
46.6 Gflops 		14111
35.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17517
13.1 Mpairs/sec 		12511
9.34 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 16099
2.35 Mpixels/sec 		12743
1.86 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 23753
69534.0 FPS 		19673
57590.2 FPS
HDR 20605
74.7 Mpixels/sec 		14468
52.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 19672
344.6 Mpixels/sec 		13038
228.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 19323
165.3 Words/sec 		10494
89.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 19655
5.74 Msubwindows/sec 		14377
4.20 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5317
14.7 GB/sec 		4248
11.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5559
77.9 ns 		5303
81.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4836
25.8 GB/sec 		3103
16.6 GB/sec

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