MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4173 3708
Multi-Core Score 14304 7154
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.15.2 (Build 19C57) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A365)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-7820HQ @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 8192 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-551B86E5744E2388 MacBookPro14,3 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 203.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D7.B00.1708080744
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4173 3708
AES 2873
2.16 GB/sec 		3032
2.28 GB/sec
LZMA 3501
5.47 MB/sec 		3904
6.10 MB/sec
JPEG 4255
34.2 Mpixels/sec 		3981
32.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3853
53.4 Mpixels/sec 		3549
49.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4069
4.18 MB/sec 		2690
2.77 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3980
2.69 MTE/sec 		4154
2.81 MTE/sec
SQLite 3711
102.9 Krows/sec 		2941
81.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3781
17.2 MB/sec 		3005
13.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4720
4.28 MElements/sec 		4779
4.33 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3941
123.1 Mpixels/sec 		3333
104.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5254
139.6 Mpixels/sec 		3575
95.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6642
456.7 functions/sec 		6011
413.3 functions/sec
Camera 4614
12.8 images/sec 		3935
10.9 images/sec
SGEMM 4612
97.5 Gflops 		2094
44.3 Gflops
SFFT 4399
11.0 Gflops 		3846
9.59 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3833
2.86 Mpairs/sec 		3286
2.45 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3946
576.3 Kpixels/sec 		3120
455.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4857
14218.5 FPS 		4529
13259.7 FPS
HDR 4543
16.5 Mpixels/sec 		3829
13.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4382
76.8 Mpixels/sec 		3797
66.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4377
37.5 Words/sec 		3918
33.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3954
1.16 Msubwindows/sec 		3613
1.06 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3760
10.4 GB/sec 		3887
10.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4381
98.8 ns 		5597
77.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3961
21.2 GB/sec 		3278
17.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 14304 7154
AES 11322
8.53 GB/sec 		6032
4.54 GB/sec
LZMA 15202
23.7 MB/sec 		8531
13.3 MB/sec
JPEG 18992
152.8 Mpixels/sec 		9777
78.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16658
231.0 Mpixels/sec 		8394
116.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15611
16.0 MB/sec 		6235
6.41 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15536
10.5 MTE/sec 		10136
6.86 MTE/sec
SQLite 13865
384.4 Krows/sec 		6338
175.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14782
67.1 MB/sec 		6308
28.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 15012
13.6 MElements/sec 		9377
8.50 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 15564
486.3 Mpixels/sec 		7038
219.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 18584
493.7 Mpixels/sec 		7566
201.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 29736
2.04 Kfunctions/sec 		13436
923.8 functions/sec
Camera 20444
56.7 images/sec 		9063
25.1 images/sec
SGEMM 12888
272.4 Gflops 		3794
80.2 Gflops
SFFT 19325
48.2 Gflops 		7881
19.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 18013
13.5 Mpairs/sec 		7277
5.43 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 16626
2.43 Mpixels/sec 		7157
1.05 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22003
64411.4 FPS 		10671
31239.9 FPS
HDR 18043
65.4 Mpixels/sec 		8618
31.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18180
318.5 Mpixels/sec 		7114
124.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11876
101.6 Words/sec 		7391
63.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 18216
5.32 Msubwindows/sec 		7971
2.33 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5085
14.1 GB/sec 		4789
13.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4761
90.9 ns 		5688
76.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4395
23.5 GB/sec 		3589
19.2 GB/sec

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