MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 4969 4665
Multi-Core Score 21431 16405
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H2026) macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C54)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-8850H @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4980HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 6 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 9216 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5
BIOS Apple Inc. 1916.60.2.0.0 (iBridge: 20.16.2059.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 4969 4665
AES 3455
2.60 GB/sec 		3924
2.96 GB/sec
LZMA 4770
7.45 MB/sec 		4520
7.06 MB/sec
JPEG 5016
40.4 Mpixels/sec 		4889
39.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4618
64.0 Mpixels/sec 		4498
62.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5258
5.40 MB/sec 		4522
4.65 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5265
3.56 MTE/sec 		5083
3.44 MTE/sec
SQLite 4520
125.3 Krows/sec 		4141
114.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4379
19.9 MB/sec 		4136
18.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5673
5.14 MElements/sec 		5481
4.97 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4714
147.3 Mpixels/sec 		4386
137.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6533
173.6 Mpixels/sec 		5517
146.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8491
583.8 functions/sec 		8026
551.8 functions/sec
Camera 5302
14.7 images/sec 		4926
13.7 images/sec
SGEMM 5046
106.7 Gflops 		3891
82.3 Gflops
SFFT 5648
14.1 Gflops 		4542
11.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4952
3.70 Mpairs/sec 		4042
3.02 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4848
707.9 Kpixels/sec 		3625
529.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6009
17591.5 FPS 		4870
14256.4 FPS
HDR 5804
21.0 Mpixels/sec 		4530
16.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5806
101.7 Mpixels/sec 		4682
82.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5640
48.3 Words/sec 		4794
41.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 5013
1.46 Msubwindows/sec 		4509
1.32 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3848
10.7 GB/sec 		3767
10.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4558
95.0 ns 		5332
81.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3612
19.3 GB/sec 		5189
27.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 21431 16405
AES 14306
10.8 GB/sec 		11848
8.92 GB/sec
LZMA 24681
38.5 MB/sec 		18696
29.2 MB/sec
JPEG 31905
256.7 Mpixels/sec 		23208
186.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 25221
349.7 Mpixels/sec 		17830
247.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 27155
27.9 MB/sec 		16643
17.1 MB/sec
Dijkstra 20261
13.7 MTE/sec 		28910
19.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 23997
665.3 Krows/sec 		16036
444.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 22154
100.6 MB/sec 		16237
73.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 14851
13.5 MElements/sec 		20605
18.7 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 30582
955.5 Mpixels/sec 		18952
592.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 24688
655.9 Mpixels/sec 		21976
583.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 49994
3.44 Kfunctions/sec 		33971
2.34 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 32617
90.4 images/sec 		21515
59.7 images/sec
SGEMM 16787
354.8 Gflops 		13900
293.8 Gflops
SFFT 32046
79.9 Gflops 		17967
44.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 31136
23.3 Mpairs/sec 		17607
13.1 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 25338
3.70 Mpixels/sec 		15693
2.29 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 39674
116139.9 FPS 		22745
66583.3 FPS
HDR 28859
104.6 Mpixels/sec 		20347
73.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 29032
508.6 Mpixels/sec 		19655
344.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 14293
122.3 Words/sec 		19040
162.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 34538
10.1 Msubwindows/sec 		19632
5.73 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4833
13.4 GB/sec 		5127
14.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4166
103.9 ns 		5318
81.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4419
23.6 GB/sec 		4733
25.3 GB/sec

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