MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4376 3191
Multi-Core Score 15536 6087
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.1.3 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G4032) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 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 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 159.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B15.1702171521
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4376 3191
AES 3661
2.76 GB/sec 		2618
1.97 GB/sec
LZMA 4200
6.56 MB/sec 		3220
5.03 MB/sec
JPEG 4469
36.0 Mpixels/sec 		3411
27.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4093
56.8 Mpixels/sec 		3018
41.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4236
4.35 MB/sec 		2184
2.25 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5019
3.40 MTE/sec 		3586
2.43 MTE/sec
SQLite 3790
105.1 Krows/sec 		2528
70.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4016
18.2 MB/sec 		2582
11.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5058
4.58 MElements/sec 		4175
3.78 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3962
123.8 Mpixels/sec 		2837
88.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5091
135.3 Mpixels/sec 		2950
78.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7484
514.6 functions/sec 		5212
358.4 functions/sec
Camera 4577
12.7 images/sec 		3446
9.56 images/sec
SGEMM 3568
75.4 Gflops 		1604
33.9 Gflops
SFFT 4072
10.2 Gflops 		3333
8.31 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3731
2.79 Mpairs/sec 		2652
1.98 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3277
478.5 Kpixels/sec 		2749
401.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4462
13063.3 FPS 		3888
11384.2 FPS
HDR 4125
15.0 Mpixels/sec 		3259
11.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4321
75.7 Mpixels/sec 		3253
57.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4412
37.8 Words/sec 		3122
26.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 4066
1.19 Msubwindows/sec 		3122
911.9 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3806
10.5 GB/sec 		3397
9.41 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5547
78.0 ns 		5576
77.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4814
25.7 GB/sec 		2815
15.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 15536 6087
AES 11959
9.01 GB/sec 		5133
3.87 GB/sec
LZMA 17457
27.3 MB/sec 		7157
11.2 MB/sec
JPEG 20930
168.4 Mpixels/sec 		8314
66.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16790
232.8 Mpixels/sec 		7074
98.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15712
16.1 MB/sec 		5282
5.43 MB/sec
Dijkstra 27486
18.6 MTE/sec 		8483
5.74 MTE/sec
SQLite 14839
411.4 Krows/sec 		5396
149.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15176
68.9 MB/sec 		5425
24.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18904
17.1 MElements/sec 		6737
6.10 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17449
545.2 Mpixels/sec 		6042
188.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 20415
542.4 Mpixels/sec 		6287
167.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 31546
2.17 Kfunctions/sec 		11477
789.1 functions/sec
Camera 20394
56.5 images/sec 		7916
22.0 images/sec
SGEMM 13657
288.7 Gflops 		3186
67.4 Gflops
SFFT 17432
43.5 Gflops 		6690
16.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 16198
12.1 Mpairs/sec 		6170
4.61 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15383
2.25 Mpixels/sec 		6098
890.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22472
65786.3 FPS 		9309
27251.7 FPS
HDR 18611
67.5 Mpixels/sec 		7318
26.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17954
314.5 Mpixels/sec 		6226
109.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18291
156.5 Words/sec 		5920
50.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 18160
5.30 Msubwindows/sec 		6623
1.93 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5309
14.7 GB/sec 		3997
11.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5632
76.9 ns 		5613
77.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4839
25.8 GB/sec 		3340
17.8 GB/sec

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