MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Single-Core Score 4206 4233
Multi-Core Score 15310 13217
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.2.0

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H15) macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C88)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
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-A5C67F76ED83108C MacBookPro13,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 162.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP133.88Z.0233.B00.1708080034
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Single-Core Score 4206 4233
AES 3353
2.53 GB/sec 		2930
2.21 GB/sec
LZMA 3103
4.85 MB/sec 		4005
6.26 MB/sec
JPEG 3936
31.7 Mpixels/sec 		4318
34.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3948
54.8 Mpixels/sec 		4120
57.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3579
3.68 MB/sec 		4153
4.27 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4720
3.19 MTE/sec 		4342
2.94 MTE/sec
SQLite 3698
102.5 Krows/sec 		3809
105.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3883
17.6 MB/sec 		3634
16.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4766
4.32 MElements/sec 		5128
4.65 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3912
122.3 Mpixels/sec 		4002
125.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4845
128.7 Mpixels/sec 		4352
115.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7163
492.5 functions/sec 		7378
507.3 functions/sec
Camera 4613
12.8 images/sec 		4690
13.0 images/sec
SGEMM 3529
74.6 Gflops 		4624
97.8 Gflops
SFFT 4158
10.4 Gflops 		4922
12.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3730
2.79 Mpairs/sec 		4277
3.19 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3268
477.3 Kpixels/sec 		3881
566.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4448
13022.6 FPS 		4878
14282.2 FPS
HDR 4066
14.7 Mpixels/sec 		5170
18.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4259
74.6 Mpixels/sec 		4649
81.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4502
38.5 Words/sec 		4556
39.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 4138
1.21 Msubwindows/sec 		4245
1.24 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3841
10.6 GB/sec 		3653
10.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5527
78.3 ns 		3450
125.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4710
25.2 GB/sec 		3883
20.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Multi-Core Score 15310 13217
AES 11900
8.96 GB/sec 		15161
11.4 GB/sec
LZMA 17725
27.7 MB/sec 		14803
23.1 MB/sec
JPEG 20445
164.5 Mpixels/sec 		19401
156.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16647
230.9 Mpixels/sec 		16002
221.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15578
16.0 MB/sec 		15357
15.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 26966
18.2 MTE/sec 		15994
10.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 14522
402.6 Krows/sec 		11174
309.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14639
66.5 MB/sec 		12726
57.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18436
16.7 MElements/sec 		11687
10.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 16994
531.0 Mpixels/sec 		14048
438.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 20042
532.5 Mpixels/sec 		15011
398.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 31013
2.13 Kfunctions/sec 		26829
1.84 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 19849
55.0 images/sec 		17262
47.9 images/sec
SGEMM 13474
284.8 Gflops 		11293
238.7 Gflops
SFFT 17598
43.9 Gflops 		16044
40.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 16209
12.1 Mpairs/sec 		15300
11.4 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14643
2.14 Mpixels/sec 		14640
2.14 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21368
62553.7 FPS 		20242
59258.2 FPS
HDR 18939
68.7 Mpixels/sec 		19811
71.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18278
320.2 Mpixels/sec 		17862
312.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17897
153.1 Words/sec 		10569
90.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 17970
5.25 Msubwindows/sec 		17977
5.25 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5267
14.6 GB/sec 		4961
13.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5640
76.8 ns 		3237
133.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4731
25.3 GB/sec 		4409
23.5 GB/sec

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