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 4330 5598
Multi-Core Score 15343 24360
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.3.3

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.15.6 (Build 19G2021) macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226)
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 i9-8950HK @ 2.90 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 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 162.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.250.366.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.4507.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 4330 5598
AES 3515
2.65 GB/sec 		3861
2.91 GB/sec
LZMA 3904
6.10 MB/sec 		5301
8.28 MB/sec
JPEG 4404
35.4 Mpixels/sec 		5964
48.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3930
54.5 Mpixels/sec 		5047
70.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4103
4.22 MB/sec 		5825
5.99 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4786
3.24 MTE/sec 		7012
4.75 MTE/sec
SQLite 3705
102.7 Krows/sec 		5171
143.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3990
18.1 MB/sec 		5017
22.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5002
4.53 MElements/sec 		6652
6.03 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4072
127.3 Mpixels/sec 		5226
163.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4982
132.4 Mpixels/sec 		7205
191.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7289
501.2 functions/sec 		9640
662.8 functions/sec
Camera 4606
12.8 images/sec 		6240
17.3 images/sec
SGEMM 3562
75.3 Gflops 		6255
132.2 Gflops
SFFT 4155
10.4 Gflops 		6311
15.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3722
2.78 Mpairs/sec 		5636
4.21 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3204
467.9 Kpixels/sec 		5251
766.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4466
13075.9 FPS 		6518
19082.4 FPS
HDR 4145
15.0 Mpixels/sec 		6947
25.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4318
75.6 Mpixels/sec 		6255
109.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4463
38.2 Words/sec 		6607
56.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 4193
1.22 Msubwindows/sec 		5589
1.63 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3783
10.5 GB/sec 		4423
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5551
78.0 ns 		3603
120.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4844
25.9 GB/sec 		4505
24.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Multi-Core Score 15343 24360
AES 11588
8.73 GB/sec 		17339
13.1 GB/sec
LZMA 17609
27.5 MB/sec 		27087
42.3 MB/sec
JPEG 20456
164.6 Mpixels/sec 		34263
275.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16900
234.4 Mpixels/sec 		28087
389.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15216
15.6 MB/sec 		28082
28.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 27276
18.5 MTE/sec 		24092
16.3 MTE/sec
SQLite 14534
402.9 Krows/sec 		27642
766.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15077
68.4 MB/sec 		26680
121.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18879
17.1 MElements/sec 		26419
23.9 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17389
543.3 Mpixels/sec 		31553
985.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 20163
535.7 Mpixels/sec 		33736
896.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 30913
2.13 Kfunctions/sec 		55606
3.82 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 20117
55.8 images/sec 		34113
94.6 images/sec
SGEMM 12235
258.6 Gflops 		20798
439.6 Gflops
SFFT 17597
43.9 Gflops 		34136
85.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15849
11.8 Mpairs/sec 		31502
23.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15439
2.25 Mpixels/sec 		27735
4.05 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22420
65632.9 FPS 		41071
120231.0 FPS
HDR 18745
68.0 Mpixels/sec 		34440
124.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18006
315.4 Mpixels/sec 		30440
533.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18056
154.5 Words/sec 		17129
146.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 18246
5.33 Msubwindows/sec 		34986
10.2 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5282
14.6 GB/sec 		5650
15.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5550
78.0 ns 		3275
132.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4729
25.3 GB/sec 		4845
25.9 GB/sec

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