MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Single-Core Score 3775 3959
Multi-Core Score 12930 11112
Geekbench 4.2.2 Geekbench 4.3.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.13.3 (Build 17D102) macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2.70 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 58 Stepping 9 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 8192 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D7.B00.1708080744 Apple Inc. 153.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Single-Core Score 3775 3959
AES 3080
2.32 GB/sec 		3311
2.49 GB/sec
LZMA 3981
6.22 MB/sec 		3321
5.19 MB/sec
JPEG 4126
33.2 Mpixels/sec 		4035
32.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3606
50.0 Mpixels/sec 		3756
52.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2718
2.79 MB/sec 		3690
3.79 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4387
2.97 MTE/sec 		4623
3.13 MTE/sec
SQLite 3026
83.9 Krows/sec 		3407
94.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2936
13.3 MB/sec 		3549
16.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4896
4.44 MElements/sec 		4300
3.90 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3427
107.1 Mpixels/sec 		3596
112.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3902
103.7 Mpixels/sec 		4555
121.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6169
424.2 functions/sec 		6434
442.4 functions/sec
Camera 4215
11.7 images/sec 		4125
11.4 images/sec
SGEMM 2076
43.9 Gflops 		3424
72.4 Gflops
SFFT 4045
10.1 Gflops 		3861
9.63 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3372
2.52 Mpairs/sec 		3367
2.52 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3196
466.8 Kpixels/sec 		3169
462.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4638
13579.9 FPS 		4282
12535.2 FPS
HDR 3822
13.9 Mpixels/sec 		3578
13.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3889
68.1 Mpixels/sec 		3887
68.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4606
39.4 Words/sec 		3768
32.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3688
1.08 Msubwindows/sec 		3578
1.05 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3768
10.4 GB/sec 		3583
9.93 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5242
82.6 ns 		5261
82.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3280
17.5 GB/sec 		4503
24.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Multi-Core Score 12930 11112
AES 10791
8.13 GB/sec 		10101
7.61 GB/sec
LZMA 17288
27.0 MB/sec 		12576
19.6 MB/sec
JPEG 20034
161.2 Mpixels/sec 		14251
114.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 15605
216.4 Mpixels/sec 		12568
174.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12315
12.7 MB/sec 		9748
10.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 16124
10.9 MTE/sec 		18545
12.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 10586
293.5 Krows/sec 		9662
267.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12346
56.1 MB/sec 		10451
47.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 17700
16.0 MElements/sec 		13852
12.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14342
448.1 Mpixels/sec 		11911
372.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 14386
382.2 Mpixels/sec 		14447
383.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 26534
1.82 Kfunctions/sec 		21175
1.46 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 18202
50.5 images/sec 		14429
40.0 images/sec
SGEMM 7777
164.4 Gflops 		8575
181.3 Gflops
SFFT 16038
40.0 Gflops 		11998
29.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 14496
10.8 Mpairs/sec 		11089
8.28 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14356
2.10 Mpixels/sec 		10016
1.46 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 22054
64562.5 FPS 		15916
46593.1 FPS
HDR 16493
59.8 Mpixels/sec 		13657
49.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14963
262.1 Mpixels/sec 		12704
222.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 12695
108.6 Words/sec 		14138
121.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 16263
4.75 Msubwindows/sec 		13522
3.95 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4831
13.4 GB/sec 		5025
13.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5447
79.5 ns 		5376
80.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3512
18.8 GB/sec 		4236
22.6 GB/sec

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