MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4717 3424
Multi-Core Score 15968 11139
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.13 (Build 17A365) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-7820HQ @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 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 8192 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-551B86E5744E2388 MacBookPro14,3 Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP143.88Z.0167.B00.1708080129 Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0D.1602221713
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4717 3424
AES 4253
3.20 GB/sec 		2894
2.18 GB/sec
LZMA 3883
6.07 MB/sec 		3547
5.54 MB/sec
JPEG 4975
40.0 Mpixels/sec 		3847
31.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4582
63.5 Mpixels/sec 		3430
47.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4905
5.04 MB/sec 		2618
2.69 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5165
3.50 MTE/sec 		3769
2.55 MTE/sec
SQLite 4345
120.5 Krows/sec 		2932
81.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4216
19.1 MB/sec 		2724
12.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5696
5.16 MElements/sec 		3887
3.52 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4259
133.1 Mpixels/sec 		3102
96.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4975
132.2 Mpixels/sec 		3567
94.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8272
568.8 functions/sec 		3816
262.4 functions/sec
Camera 5276
14.6 images/sec 		3729
10.3 images/sec
SGEMM 5202
110.0 Gflops 		1973
41.7 Gflops
SFFT 5451
13.6 Gflops 		3818
9.52 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4777
3.57 Mpairs/sec 		3143
2.35 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4291
626.7 Kpixels/sec 		2941
429.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5498
16096.7 FPS 		4242
12420.1 FPS
HDR 5845
21.2 Mpixels/sec 		3488
12.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5224
91.5 Mpixels/sec 		3523
61.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5518
47.2 Words/sec 		4017
34.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 4762
1.39 Msubwindows/sec 		3454
1.01 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3735
10.3 GB/sec 		3595
9.96 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3409
127.0 ns 		5241
12.1 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3833
20.5 GB/sec 		2891
15.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 15968 11139
AES 15326
11.5 GB/sec 		9608
7.24 GB/sec
LZMA 18747
29.3 MB/sec 		15908
24.8 MB/sec
JPEG 21797
175.4 Mpixels/sec 		19223
154.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 17953
249.0 Mpixels/sec 		14837
205.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 17733
18.2 MB/sec 		12350
12.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 17505
11.8 MTE/sec 		14902
10.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 14793
410.1 Krows/sec 		6177
171.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15924
72.3 MB/sec 		12422
56.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 20356
18.4 MElements/sec 		7346
6.66 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17417
544.2 Mpixels/sec 		13832
432.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 18601
494.2 Mpixels/sec 		13339
354.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 35431
2.44 Kfunctions/sec 		10100
694.4 functions/sec
Camera 22111
61.3 images/sec 		17773
49.3 images/sec
SGEMM 15711
332.1 Gflops 		6959
147.1 Gflops
SFFT 20741
51.7 Gflops 		15233
38.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 18656
13.9 Mpairs/sec 		13843
10.3 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 18419
2.69 Mpixels/sec 		13950
2.04 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 26040
76228.2 FPS 		21008
61500.2 FPS
HDR 22430
81.3 Mpixels/sec 		16139
58.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20050
351.2 Mpixels/sec 		13818
242.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11882
101.7 Words/sec 		11238
96.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 20354
5.95 Msubwindows/sec 		15589
4.55 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4814
13.3 GB/sec 		4698
13.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3172
136.5 ns 		5523
12.8 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4220
22.5 GB/sec 		3484
18.6 GB/sec

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