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

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Single-Core Score 3466 4278
Multi-Core Score 11500 14899
Geekbench 4.1.3 Geekbench 4.2.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.13.1 (Build 17B48) macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C88)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-2760QM @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
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-94245A3940C91C80 MacBookPro8,2 Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.004D.B00.1708080655 Apple Inc. MBP112.88Z.0142.B00.1708080655
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Single-Core Score 3466 4278
AES 2640
1.99 GB/sec 		3634
2.74 GB/sec
LZMA 3589
5.61 MB/sec 		4172
6.52 MB/sec
JPEG 3836
30.9 Mpixels/sec 		4236
34.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3386
47.0 Mpixels/sec 		4141
57.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2543
2.61 MB/sec 		4188
4.30 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4249
2.88 MTE/sec 		4873
3.30 MTE/sec
SQLite 2593
71.9 Krows/sec 		3845
106.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2797
12.7 MB/sec 		3637
16.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3812
3.45 MElements/sec 		5010
4.54 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2621
81.9 Mpixels/sec 		4030
125.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3265
86.7 Mpixels/sec 		4177
111.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5725
393.6 functions/sec 		7426
510.6 functions/sec
Camera 3745
10.4 images/sec 		4595
12.7 images/sec
SGEMM 1907
40.3 Gflops 		3565
75.4 Gflops
SFFT 3307
8.24 Gflops 		4160
10.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2646
1.98 Mpairs/sec 		3351
2.50 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2795
408.2 Kpixels/sec 		3299
481.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4185
12253.4 FPS 		4449
13025.9 FPS
HDR 3314
12.0 Mpixels/sec 		4003
14.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3612
63.3 Mpixels/sec 		4295
75.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4183
35.8 Words/sec 		4172
35.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 3513
1.03 Msubwindows/sec 		4075
1.19 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3716
10.3 GB/sec 		3714
10.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6856
63.1 ns 		5593
77.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2895
15.5 GB/sec 		4711
25.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Multi-Core Score 11500 14899
AES 10974
8.26 GB/sec 		11906
8.97 GB/sec
LZMA 15533
24.3 MB/sec 		17012
26.6 MB/sec
JPEG 17899
144.0 Mpixels/sec 		19845
159.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14193
196.8 Mpixels/sec 		16971
235.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11300
11.6 MB/sec 		14994
15.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 16201
11.0 MTE/sec 		26235
17.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 9583
265.7 Krows/sec 		12746
353.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 11487
52.1 MB/sec 		13977
63.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 11407
10.3 MElements/sec 		19250
17.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 12719
397.4 Mpixels/sec 		16567
517.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 12153
322.9 Mpixels/sec 		16747
444.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24376
1.68 Kfunctions/sec 		30768
2.12 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 16064
44.5 images/sec 		19877
55.1 images/sec
SGEMM 6009
127.0 Gflops 		13419
283.7 Gflops
SFFT 13705
34.2 Gflops 		16955
42.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 10980
8.20 Mpairs/sec 		16111
12.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12538
1.83 Mpixels/sec 		14618
2.13 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18765
54933.4 FPS 		21508
62961.5 FPS
HDR 14378
52.1 Mpixels/sec 		18487
67.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12269
214.9 Mpixels/sec 		16871
295.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11661
99.8 Words/sec 		17668
151.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 14607
4.27 Msubwindows/sec 		17602
5.14 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4476
12.4 GB/sec 		5301
14.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6991
61.9 ns 		5693
76.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3778
20.2 GB/sec 		4829
25.8 GB/sec

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