MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3410 5701
Multi-Core Score 11349 20061
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.1.3

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H1519) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 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 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 424.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 40.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3410 5701
AES 2767
2.08 GB/sec 		3692
2.78 GB/sec
LZMA 3562
5.56 MB/sec 		5181
8.09 MB/sec
JPEG 3727
30.0 Mpixels/sec 		5634
45.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3186
44.2 Mpixels/sec 		5207
72.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2435
2.50 MB/sec 		5586
5.74 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3878
2.62 MTE/sec 		5456
3.69 MTE/sec
SQLite 2673
74.1 Krows/sec 		5064
140.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2857
13.0 MB/sec 		4563
20.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4334
3.93 MElements/sec 		6631
6.01 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3100
96.9 Mpixels/sec 		4959
155.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4143
110.1 Mpixels/sec 		5775
153.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5466
375.9 functions/sec 		9606
660.5 functions/sec
Camera 3787
10.5 images/sec 		6043
16.8 images/sec
SGEMM 1846
39.0 Gflops 		5985
126.5 Gflops
SFFT 3558
8.87 Gflops 		6310
15.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3091
2.31 Mpairs/sec 		5544
4.14 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2859
417.5 Kpixels/sec 		5105
745.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4139
12116.6 FPS 		6373
18656.7 FPS
HDR 3479
12.6 Mpixels/sec 		6917
25.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3521
61.7 Mpixels/sec 		5769
101.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3944
33.8 Words/sec 		6443
55.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3300
964.0 Ksubwindows/sec 		5563
1.62 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3426
9.49 GB/sec 		5843
16.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4951
87.4 ns 		6243
69.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2786
14.9 GB/sec 		5316
28.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 11349 20061
AES 8943
6.74 GB/sec 		17171
12.9 GB/sec
LZMA 15064
23.5 MB/sec 		23084
36.1 MB/sec
JPEG 17551
141.2 Mpixels/sec 		27375
220.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 13823
191.7 Mpixels/sec 		22409
310.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11608
11.9 MB/sec 		22062
22.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13884
9.39 MTE/sec 		22112
15.0 MTE/sec
SQLite 11477
318.2 Krows/sec 		18020
499.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12218
55.5 MB/sec 		19818
90.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10787
9.77 MElements/sec 		26138
23.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13162
411.3 Mpixels/sec 		21301
665.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13561
360.3 Mpixels/sec 		23435
622.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 23145
1.59 Kfunctions/sec 		44493
3.06 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16150
44.8 images/sec 		27594
76.5 images/sec
SGEMM 6527
138.0 Gflops 		17939
379.2 Gflops
SFFT 14226
35.5 Gflops 		26141
65.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13246
9.89 Mpairs/sec 		24819
18.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12782
1.87 Mpixels/sec 		23178
3.38 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19734
57769.4 FPS 		32526
95216.9 FPS
HDR 14624
53.0 Mpixels/sec 		26888
97.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13608
238.4 Mpixels/sec 		24881
435.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9570
81.9 Words/sec 		16076
137.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 14315
4.18 Msubwindows/sec 		24267
7.09 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4102
11.4 GB/sec 		6864
19.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5031
86.0 ns 		6215
69.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2806
15.0 GB/sec 		5655
30.2 GB/sec

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