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

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Single-Core Score 3455 3435
Multi-Core Score 11859 9730
Geekbench 4.3.1 Pro Geekbench 4.1.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Operating System macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C54) macOS 10.13 (Build 17A291m)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 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 58 Stepping 9 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-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F MacBookPro10,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 222.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP101.88Z.00EF.B01.1706261418
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Single-Core Score 3455 3435
AES 2796
2.11 GB/sec 		2748
2.07 GB/sec
LZMA 3493
5.46 MB/sec 		3509
5.48 MB/sec
JPEG 3737
30.1 Mpixels/sec 		3592
28.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3322
46.1 Mpixels/sec 		3156
43.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2412
2.48 MB/sec 		2326
2.39 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4087
2.77 MTE/sec 		3923
2.66 MTE/sec
SQLite 2545
70.6 Krows/sec 		2626
72.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2735
12.4 MB/sec 		2669
12.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4219
3.82 MElements/sec 		4306
3.90 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2939
91.9 Mpixels/sec 		2940
91.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3879
103.1 Mpixels/sec 		3840
102.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5444
374.3 functions/sec 		5478
376.7 functions/sec
Camera 3710
10.3 images/sec 		3674
10.2 images/sec
SGEMM 1898
40.1 Gflops 		1914
40.5 Gflops
SFFT 3703
9.23 Gflops 		3696
9.22 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3046
2.28 Mpairs/sec 		2953
2.21 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2805
409.6 Kpixels/sec 		2848
416.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4141
12122.5 FPS 		4133
12099.5 FPS
HDR 3396
12.3 Mpixels/sec 		3247
11.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3469
60.8 Mpixels/sec 		3350
58.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3896
33.3 Words/sec 		3901
33.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3299
963.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		3317
968.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3897
10.8 GB/sec 		3910
10.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5417
79.9 ns 		5567
77.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2967
15.8 GB/sec 		2994
16.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Multi-Core Score 11859 9730
AES 10961
8.25 GB/sec 		9626
7.25 GB/sec
LZMA 15364
24.0 MB/sec 		12861
20.1 MB/sec
JPEG 17674
142.2 Mpixels/sec 		14167
114.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14297
198.3 Mpixels/sec 		12251
169.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11216
11.5 MB/sec 		8762
9.00 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15500
10.5 MTE/sec 		13603
9.20 MTE/sec
SQLite 11039
306.0 Krows/sec 		7084
196.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 11675
53.0 MB/sec 		8575
38.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12309
11.2 MElements/sec 		11329
10.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12848
401.5 Mpixels/sec 		9993
312.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 15039
399.5 Mpixels/sec 		12014
319.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 23938
1.65 Kfunctions/sec 		18779
1.29 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16174
44.8 images/sec 		13147
36.5 images/sec
SGEMM 6786
143.5 Gflops 		5198
109.9 Gflops
SFFT 14167
35.3 Gflops 		10824
27.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13053
9.75 Mpairs/sec 		10364
7.74 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12902
1.88 Mpixels/sec 		9759
1.43 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19637
57485.1 FPS 		15613
45707.3 FPS
HDR 14804
53.7 Mpixels/sec 		12076
43.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13424
235.2 Mpixels/sec 		10049
176.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11585
99.1 Words/sec 		10914
93.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 14520
4.24 Msubwindows/sec 		11887
3.47 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4957
13.7 GB/sec 		5066
14.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5589
77.5 ns 		5846
74.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3583
19.1 GB/sec 		3662
19.6 GB/sec

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