MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Single-Core Score 4253 3268
Multi-Core Score 14924 8051
Geekbench 4.1.2 Geekbench 4.2.2 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29) macOS 10.13.5 (Build 17F70a)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-2860QM @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
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-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-942459F5819B171B MacBookPro8,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP112.88Z.0138.B40.1706201157 Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0050.B00.1804101331
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Single-Core Score 4253 3268
AES 3498
2.63 GB/sec 		2643
1.99 GB/sec
LZMA 3728
5.82 MB/sec 		3357
5.24 MB/sec
JPEG 4380
35.2 Mpixels/sec 		3683
29.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4025
55.8 Mpixels/sec 		3279
45.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4183
4.30 MB/sec 		2366
2.43 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4423
2.99 MTE/sec 		3721
2.52 MTE/sec
SQLite 3970
110.1 Krows/sec 		2625
72.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3766
17.1 MB/sec 		2650
12.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4587
4.16 MElements/sec 		4108
3.72 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3832
119.7 Mpixels/sec 		2992
93.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4161
110.6 Mpixels/sec 		3311
88.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7355
505.7 functions/sec 		5367
369.0 functions/sec
Camera 4552
12.6 images/sec 		3724
10.3 images/sec
SGEMM 3527
74.6 Gflops 		1927
40.7 Gflops
SFFT 4162
10.4 Gflops 		3478
8.67 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3729
2.79 Mpairs/sec 		2613
1.95 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3328
486.0 Kpixels/sec 		2781
406.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4481
13119.2 FPS 		4078
11939.2 FPS
HDR 4031
14.6 Mpixels/sec 		3006
10.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4200
73.6 Mpixels/sec 		3442
60.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4406
37.7 Words/sec 		3926
33.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 4205
1.23 Msubwindows/sec 		3375
985.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3771
10.4 GB/sec 		2903
8.04 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5525
78.4 ns 		5759
75.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4814
25.7 GB/sec 		2503
13.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011)
Multi-Core Score 14924 8051
AES 12091
9.11 GB/sec 		7019
5.29 GB/sec
LZMA 17354
27.1 MB/sec 		10971
17.1 MB/sec
JPEG 20631
166.0 Mpixels/sec 		11916
95.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 16729
232.0 Mpixels/sec 		10110
140.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 15610
16.0 MB/sec 		7134
7.33 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24804
16.8 MTE/sec 		12141
8.22 MTE/sec
SQLite 12749
353.5 Krows/sec 		5765
159.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 14216
64.5 MB/sec 		7406
33.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 18944
17.2 MElements/sec 		10747
9.74 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 15876
496.1 Mpixels/sec 		9279
290.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 16444
436.9 Mpixels/sec 		8696
231.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 31102
2.14 Kfunctions/sec 		17435
1.20 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 20068
55.6 images/sec 		11046
30.6 images/sec
SGEMM 13185
278.7 Gflops 		3758
79.4 Gflops
SFFT 17115
42.7 Gflops 		8986
22.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15590
11.6 Mpairs/sec 		7545
5.64 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15040
2.20 Mpixels/sec 		8095
1.18 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22382
65520.4 FPS 		12665
37076.6 FPS
HDR 18338
66.5 Mpixels/sec 		9908
35.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17140
300.3 Mpixels/sec 		8651
151.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 18020
154.2 Words/sec 		8883
76.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 17734
5.18 Msubwindows/sec 		10258
3.00 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5352
14.8 GB/sec 		3352
9.29 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5482
79.0 ns 		5675
76.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4805
25.7 GB/sec 		2908
15.5 GB/sec

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