MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3818 3191
Multi-Core Score 7384 6087
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-5257U @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP121.88Z.0167.B24.1702161608 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B15.1702171521
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3818 3191
AES 3137
2.36 GB/sec 		2618
1.97 GB/sec
LZMA 3476
5.43 MB/sec 		3220
5.03 MB/sec
JPEG 3825
30.8 Mpixels/sec 		3411
27.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3528
48.9 Mpixels/sec 		3018
41.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3624
3.72 MB/sec 		2184
2.25 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4086
2.76 MTE/sec 		3586
2.43 MTE/sec
SQLite 3302
91.6 Krows/sec 		2528
70.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3242
14.7 MB/sec 		2582
11.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4144
3.75 MElements/sec 		4175
3.78 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3364
105.1 Mpixels/sec 		2837
88.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3383
89.9 Mpixels/sec 		2950
78.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6277
431.6 functions/sec 		5212
358.4 functions/sec
Camera 3897
10.8 images/sec 		3446
9.56 images/sec
SGEMM 3386
71.6 Gflops 		1604
33.9 Gflops
SFFT 4161
10.4 Gflops 		3333
8.31 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3592
2.68 Mpairs/sec 		2652
1.98 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3499
511.1 Kpixels/sec 		2749
401.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4605
13482.7 FPS 		3888
11384.2 FPS
HDR 4133
15.0 Mpixels/sec 		3259
11.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3577
62.7 Mpixels/sec 		3253
57.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3469
29.7 Words/sec 		3122
26.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 3736
1.09 Msubwindows/sec 		3122
911.9 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3544
9.82 GB/sec 		3397
9.41 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5596
77.4 ns 		5576
77.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3555
19.0 GB/sec 		2815
15.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 7384 6087
AES 6391
4.81 GB/sec 		5133
3.87 GB/sec
LZMA 7902
12.3 MB/sec 		7157
11.2 MB/sec
JPEG 9475
76.2 Mpixels/sec 		8314
66.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8418
116.7 Mpixels/sec 		7074
98.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7087
7.28 MB/sec 		5282
5.43 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9455
6.40 MTE/sec 		8483
5.74 MTE/sec
SQLite 7054
195.6 Krows/sec 		5396
149.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6727
30.5 MB/sec 		5425
24.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6857
6.21 MElements/sec 		6737
6.10 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7541
235.6 Mpixels/sec 		6042
188.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7473
198.5 Mpixels/sec 		6287
167.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 14623
1.01 Kfunctions/sec 		11477
789.1 functions/sec
Camera 9540
26.5 images/sec 		7916
22.0 images/sec
SGEMM 5999
126.8 Gflops 		3186
67.4 Gflops
SFFT 8333
20.8 Gflops 		6690
16.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8241
6.16 Mpairs/sec 		6170
4.61 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7827
1.14 Mpixels/sec 		6098
890.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11412
33409.3 FPS 		9309
27251.7 FPS
HDR 9653
35.0 Mpixels/sec 		7318
26.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7841
137.4 Mpixels/sec 		6226
109.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6259
53.6 Words/sec 		5920
50.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 8489
2.48 Msubwindows/sec 		6623
1.93 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4383
12.1 GB/sec 		3997
11.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5329
81.2 ns 		5613
77.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3904
20.9 GB/sec 		3340
17.8 GB/sec

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