MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3303 4328
Multi-Core Score 10896 15128
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G14042) macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D42)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
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-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5
BIOS Apple Inc. 422.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3303 4328
AES 2551
1.92 GB/sec 		3630
2.73 GB/sec
LZMA 3373
5.27 MB/sec 		4136
6.46 MB/sec
JPEG 3558
28.6 Mpixels/sec 		4471
36.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3227
44.8 Mpixels/sec 		4133
57.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2400
2.47 MB/sec 		4198
4.31 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3629
2.46 MTE/sec 		4856
3.29 MTE/sec
SQLite 2573
71.4 Krows/sec 		3823
106.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2511
11.4 MB/sec 		3805
17.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4355
3.95 MElements/sec 		5087
4.61 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3046
95.2 Mpixels/sec 		3934
122.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3388
90.0 Mpixels/sec 		5096
135.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5422
372.9 functions/sec 		7407
509.3 functions/sec
Camera 3721
10.3 images/sec 		4534
12.6 images/sec
SGEMM 1870
39.5 Gflops 		3568
75.4 Gflops
SFFT 3597
8.97 Gflops 		4162
10.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2986
2.23 Mpairs/sec 		3716
2.78 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2757
402.7 Kpixels/sec 		3258
475.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4047
11849.8 FPS 		4461
13060.5 FPS
HDR 3306
12.0 Mpixels/sec 		4114
14.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3364
58.9 Mpixels/sec 		4227
74.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3806
32.6 Words/sec 		4340
37.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3203
935.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		4149
1.21 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3385
9.38 GB/sec 		3756
10.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4946
87.5 ns 		5276
82.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2854
15.2 GB/sec 		4720
25.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 10896 15128
AES 7272
5.48 GB/sec 		11590
8.73 GB/sec
LZMA 12656
19.8 MB/sec 		17366
27.1 MB/sec
JPEG 14377
115.7 Mpixels/sec 		21321
171.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13675
189.6 Mpixels/sec 		16702
231.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11029
11.3 MB/sec 		15091
15.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13183
8.92 MTE/sec 		26579
18.0 MTE/sec
SQLite 9425
261.3 Krows/sec 		14298
396.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 11348
51.5 MB/sec 		14808
67.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11100
10.1 MElements/sec 		19072
17.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12785
399.5 Mpixels/sec 		16156
504.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 11691
310.6 Mpixels/sec 		20000
531.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 23450
1.61 Kfunctions/sec 		30600
2.10 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16526
45.8 images/sec 		19706
54.6 images/sec
SGEMM 6803
143.8 Gflops 		13564
286.7 Gflops
SFFT 14157
35.3 Gflops 		17740
44.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12907
9.64 Mpairs/sec 		15647
11.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12927
1.89 Mpixels/sec 		14990
2.19 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19529
57170.1 FPS 		21939
64223.3 FPS
HDR 14648
53.1 Mpixels/sec 		18647
67.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13227
231.7 Mpixels/sec 		17209
301.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10383
88.8 Words/sec 		17439
149.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 14456
4.22 Msubwindows/sec 		16918
4.94 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4243
11.8 GB/sec 		5087
14.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5145
84.1 ns 		5219
82.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3105
16.6 GB/sec 		4637
24.8 GB/sec

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