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

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Single-Core Score 3408 3484
Multi-Core Score 11339 11611
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.2.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H1419) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1212)
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. 422.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP101.88Z.00EE.B0B.1610201442
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Single-Core Score 3408 3484
AES 2783
2.10 GB/sec 		2843
2.14 GB/sec
LZMA 3547
5.54 MB/sec 		3549
5.54 MB/sec
JPEG 3643
29.3 Mpixels/sec 		3704
29.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3195
44.3 Mpixels/sec 		3294
45.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2520
2.59 MB/sec 		2489
2.56 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3864
2.61 MTE/sec 		3799
2.57 MTE/sec
SQLite 2685
74.5 Krows/sec 		2792
77.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2834
12.9 MB/sec 		2708
12.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4334
3.93 MElements/sec 		4415
4.00 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3080
96.3 Mpixels/sec 		3013
94.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4136
109.9 Mpixels/sec 		3521
93.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5438
373.9 functions/sec 		5673
390.1 functions/sec
Camera 3779
10.5 images/sec 		3772
10.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1938
41.0 Gflops 		1936
40.9 Gflops
SFFT 3604
8.98 Gflops 		3697
9.22 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2998
2.24 Mpairs/sec 		2999
2.24 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2884
421.2 Kpixels/sec 		2890
422.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4129
12089.4 FPS 		4026
11786.9 FPS
HDR 3472
12.6 Mpixels/sec 		3451
12.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3515
61.6 Mpixels/sec 		3449
60.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4001
34.2 Words/sec 		4030
34.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3316
968.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		3315
968.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3348
9.28 GB/sec 		3959
11.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4886
88.6 ns 		5442
79.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2810
15.0 GB/sec 		3027
16.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina)
Multi-Core Score 11339 11611
AES 9698
7.30 GB/sec 		10724
8.08 GB/sec
LZMA 14898
23.3 MB/sec 		15606
24.4 MB/sec
JPEG 16259
130.8 Mpixels/sec 		17505
140.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13720
190.3 Mpixels/sec 		14292
198.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11724
12.0 MB/sec 		11470
11.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13786
9.33 MTE/sec 		15194
10.3 MTE/sec
SQLite 11438
317.1 Krows/sec 		9384
260.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12158
55.2 MB/sec 		11590
52.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10867
9.85 MElements/sec 		12458
11.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12989
405.9 Mpixels/sec 		12678
396.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13629
362.1 Mpixels/sec 		12764
339.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 23624
1.62 Kfunctions/sec 		23823
1.64 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 15609
43.3 images/sec 		16382
45.4 images/sec
SGEMM 6532
138.1 Gflops 		6657
140.7 Gflops
SFFT 13874
34.6 Gflops 		14015
34.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 12992
9.70 Mpairs/sec 		12661
9.46 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12695
1.85 Mpixels/sec 		12738
1.86 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19494
57067.1 FPS 		19345
56631.0 FPS
HDR 14250
51.7 Mpixels/sec 		14592
52.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13481
236.2 Mpixels/sec 		13103
229.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10176
87.1 Words/sec 		11611
99.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 14438
4.22 Msubwindows/sec 		14464
4.22 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4135
11.5 GB/sec 		4874
13.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5092
85.0 ns 		5471
79.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3025
16.2 GB/sec 		3594
19.2 GB/sec

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