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 4319 4121
Multi-Core Score 15281 14099
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.3.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 20G817) macOS 10.15 (Build 19A487m)
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. 433.140.2.0.0 Apple Inc. 257.0.0.0.0
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 4319 4121
AES 3639
2.74 GB/sec 		2688
2.02 GB/sec
LZMA 4128
6.45 MB/sec 		3031
4.73 MB/sec
JPEG 4508
36.3 Mpixels/sec 		4011
32.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4035
56.0 Mpixels/sec 		3622
50.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4061
4.17 MB/sec 		3663
3.76 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4744
3.21 MTE/sec 		3940
2.67 MTE/sec
SQLite 3835
106.3 Krows/sec 		3896
108.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4022
18.3 MB/sec 		3851
17.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5021
4.55 MElements/sec 		4680
4.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3914
122.3 Mpixels/sec 		4037
126.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5129
136.3 Mpixels/sec 		5422
144.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7340
504.7 functions/sec 		7295
501.6 functions/sec
Camera 4554
12.6 images/sec 		4736
13.1 images/sec
SGEMM 3561
75.3 Gflops 		4702
99.4 Gflops
SFFT 4081
10.2 Gflops 		4952
12.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3738
2.79 Mpairs/sec 		4263
3.18 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3289
480.3 Kpixels/sec 		3931
574.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4474
13097.6 FPS 		4863
14236.2 FPS
HDR 4191
15.2 Mpixels/sec 		5248
19.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4333
75.9 Mpixels/sec 		4755
83.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4490
38.4 Words/sec 		4351
37.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4072
1.19 Msubwindows/sec 		3935
1.15 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3615
10.0 GB/sec 		3610
10.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5269
82.2 ns 		3322
130.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4726
25.2 GB/sec 		3875
20.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016)
Multi-Core Score 15281 14099
AES 11576
8.72 GB/sec 		15098
11.4 GB/sec
LZMA 17513
27.4 MB/sec 		14922
23.3 MB/sec
JPEG 21118
169.9 Mpixels/sec 		19262
155.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16820
233.3 Mpixels/sec 		15175
210.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15075
15.5 MB/sec 		14759
15.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 26655
18.0 MTE/sec 		16300
11.0 MTE/sec
SQLite 14945
414.3 Krows/sec 		14722
408.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15015
68.2 MB/sec 		14867
67.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18774
17.0 MElements/sec 		12184
11.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17397
543.6 Mpixels/sec 		15631
488.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 20520
545.1 Mpixels/sec 		18877
501.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 30822
2.12 Kfunctions/sec 		30622
2.11 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 20298
56.3 images/sec 		19578
54.3 images/sec
SGEMM 13483
285.0 Gflops 		13358
282.4 Gflops
SFFT 16829
42.0 Gflops 		18218
45.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 16186
12.1 Mpairs/sec 		16313
12.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15152
2.21 Mpixels/sec 		16446
2.40 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22409
65600.0 FPS 		22974
67253.3 FPS
HDR 18646
67.6 Mpixels/sec 		19518
70.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 15616
273.6 Mpixels/sec 		18862
330.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 17927
153.4 Words/sec 		10268
87.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 18071
5.28 Msubwindows/sec 		17871
5.22 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5170
14.3 GB/sec 		4605
12.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5388
80.4 ns 		2950
146.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4674
25.0 GB/sec 		4464
23.8 GB/sec

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