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

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 3913 3245
Multi-Core Score 12130 10300
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29) macOS 10.12.5 (Build 16F73)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-2720QM @ 2.20 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 6144 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.0047.B32.1702180130
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 3913 3245
AES 3317
2.50 GB/sec 		2661
2.00 GB/sec
LZMA 3208
5.01 MB/sec 		3258
5.09 MB/sec
JPEG 4082
32.8 Mpixels/sec 		3480
28.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3703
51.4 Mpixels/sec 		3083
42.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3652
3.75 MB/sec 		2284
2.35 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4308
2.92 MTE/sec 		3761
2.55 MTE/sec
SQLite 3474
96.3 Krows/sec 		2600
72.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3332
15.1 MB/sec 		2675
12.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4614
4.18 MElements/sec 		4156
3.77 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3337
104.3 Mpixels/sec 		2737
85.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3770
100.2 Mpixels/sec 		2973
79.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6298
433.1 functions/sec 		5440
374.1 functions/sec
Camera 4104
11.4 images/sec 		3536
9.81 images/sec
SGEMM 3356
70.9 Gflops 		1906
40.3 Gflops
SFFT 3986
9.94 Gflops 		3472
8.66 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3378
2.52 Mpairs/sec 		2561
1.91 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3213
469.2 Kpixels/sec 		2667
389.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4226
12371.5 FPS 		3957
11584.6 FPS
HDR 3688
13.4 Mpixels/sec 		3093
11.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3770
66.1 Mpixels/sec 		3393
59.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3949
33.8 Words/sec 		3840
32.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 3610
1.05 Msubwindows/sec 		3309
966.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3629
10.1 GB/sec 		3109
8.61 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5276
82.1 ns 		5773
75.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4463
23.8 GB/sec 		2740
14.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011)
Multi-Core Score 12130 10300
AES 11145
8.39 GB/sec 		9184
6.92 GB/sec
LZMA 15233
23.8 MB/sec 		14261
22.3 MB/sec
JPEG 16544
133.1 Mpixels/sec 		16822
135.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14877
206.3 Mpixels/sec 		12808
177.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11395
11.7 MB/sec 		10622
10.9 MB/sec
Dijkstra 21370
14.5 MTE/sec 		13110
8.87 MTE/sec
SQLite 9478
262.8 Krows/sec 		8450
234.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 10797
49.0 MB/sec 		10839
49.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 14193
12.9 MElements/sec 		7823
7.09 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12788
399.6 Mpixels/sec 		12012
375.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13344
354.5 Mpixels/sec 		10020
266.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24165
1.66 Kfunctions/sec 		22723
1.56 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 15969
44.3 images/sec 		15326
42.5 images/sec
SGEMM 10579
223.6 Gflops 		5902
124.8 Gflops
SFFT 13702
34.2 Gflops 		13403
33.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13164
9.83 Mpairs/sec 		10299
7.69 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 11684
1.71 Mpixels/sec 		11652
1.70 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 17388
50901.8 FPS 		18242
53401.5 FPS
HDR 15692
56.9 Mpixels/sec 		13111
47.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12856
225.2 Mpixels/sec 		12185
213.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 14737
126.1 Words/sec 		9850
84.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 14635
4.27 Msubwindows/sec 		13989
4.09 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5085
14.1 GB/sec 		3607
9.99 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5358
80.8 ns 		5600
77.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3763
20.1 GB/sec 		3091
16.5 GB/sec

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