MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Single-Core Score 3441 3724
Multi-Core Score 11710 13046
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.1.0

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H1519) macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6820HQ @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 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 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C MacBookPro13,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 424.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP133.88Z.0226.B15.1702161827
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Single-Core Score 3441 3724
AES 2769
2.09 GB/sec 		2650
2.00 GB/sec
LZMA 3567
5.57 MB/sec 		3597
5.62 MB/sec
JPEG 3643
29.3 Mpixels/sec 		3604
29.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3183
44.1 Mpixels/sec 		3692
51.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2383
2.45 MB/sec 		3717
3.82 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3835
2.60 MTE/sec 		5779
3.91 MTE/sec
SQLite 2684
74.4 Krows/sec 		3413
94.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2820
12.8 MB/sec 		3190
14.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4303
3.90 MElements/sec 		4838
4.38 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3047
95.2 Mpixels/sec 		3433
107.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4114
109.3 Mpixels/sec 		3902
103.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5378
369.8 functions/sec 		7002
481.5 functions/sec
Camera 3775
10.5 images/sec 		3358
9.31 images/sec
SGEMM 1896
40.1 Gflops 		1611
34.1 Gflops
SFFT 3705
9.24 Gflops 		3839
9.57 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2999
2.24 Mpairs/sec 		3569
2.67 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2901
423.7 Kpixels/sec 		3293
481.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4133
12100.4 FPS 		4006
11729.6 FPS
HDR 3504
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		2908
10.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3490
61.1 Mpixels/sec 		4410
77.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4034
34.5 Words/sec 		4769
40.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 3316
968.8 Ksubwindows/sec 		4072
1.19 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3659
10.1 GB/sec 		3944
10.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5039
85.9 ns 		3467
124.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2984
15.9 GB/sec 		3850
20.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Multi-Core Score 11710 13046
AES 10277
7.74 GB/sec 		13336
10.0 GB/sec
LZMA 15069
23.5 MB/sec 		13811
21.6 MB/sec
JPEG 17770
143.0 Mpixels/sec 		15929
128.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14088
195.4 Mpixels/sec 		15849
219.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11208
11.5 MB/sec 		14140
14.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14457
9.78 MTE/sec 		21466
14.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 11520
319.4 Krows/sec 		11661
323.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12226
55.5 MB/sec 		12421
56.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11679
10.6 MElements/sec 		21095
19.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 13070
408.4 Mpixels/sec 		14271
445.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14735
391.5 Mpixels/sec 		14067
373.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 23639
1.63 Kfunctions/sec 		31720
2.18 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16425
45.5 images/sec 		16645
46.2 images/sec
SGEMM 6712
141.9 Gflops 		5566
117.7 Gflops
SFFT 13928
34.7 Gflops 		15599
38.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13031
9.73 Mpairs/sec 		15280
11.4 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12963
1.89 Mpixels/sec 		14283
2.09 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19710
57699.4 FPS 		18444
53994.1 FPS
HDR 14869
53.9 Mpixels/sec 		18653
67.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 13541
237.2 Mpixels/sec 		17392
304.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 10805
92.4 Words/sec 		12106
103.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 14502
4.24 Msubwindows/sec 		16343
4.77 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4706
13.0 GB/sec 		4726
13.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5209
83.1 ns 		3164
136.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3478
18.6 GB/sec 		4647
24.8 GB/sec

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