MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3387 5511
Multi-Core Score 11888 18476
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.2 (Build 19C57) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 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 6144 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 229.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3387 5511
AES 2923
2.20 GB/sec 		3748
2.82 GB/sec
LZMA 3531
5.52 MB/sec 		5167
8.07 MB/sec
JPEG 3865
31.1 Mpixels/sec 		5702
45.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3246
45.0 Mpixels/sec 		5213
72.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2153
2.21 MB/sec 		5681
5.84 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3815
2.58 MTE/sec 		6033
4.08 MTE/sec
SQLite 2712
75.2 Krows/sec 		5068
140.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3088
14.0 MB/sec 		4690
21.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4152
3.76 MElements/sec 		6604
5.98 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3047
95.2 Mpixels/sec 		5073
158.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3866
102.7 Mpixels/sec 		5397
143.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5298
364.3 functions/sec 		9608
660.6 functions/sec
Camera 3866
10.7 images/sec 		5880
16.3 images/sec
SGEMM 1885
39.9 Gflops 		5990
126.6 Gflops
SFFT 3801
9.48 Gflops 		6210
15.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3092
2.31 Mpairs/sec 		5487
4.10 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2840
414.8 Kpixels/sec 		5135
749.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3961
11597.4 FPS 		6367
18641.1 FPS
HDR 3526
12.8 Mpixels/sec 		6736
24.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3301
57.8 Mpixels/sec 		5985
104.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3909
33.4 Words/sec 		6434
55.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3213
938.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		5531
1.62 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3348
9.28 GB/sec 		4566
12.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5089
85.1 ns 		6632
65.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2695
14.4 GB/sec 		3558
19.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 11888 18476
AES 7963
6.00 GB/sec 		11618
8.75 GB/sec
LZMA 15775
24.6 MB/sec 		22443
35.1 MB/sec
JPEG 19379
155.9 Mpixels/sec 		26965
217.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14294
198.2 Mpixels/sec 		19935
276.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 11647
12.0 MB/sec 		21897
22.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13313
9.01 MTE/sec 		17794
12.0 MTE/sec
SQLite 12151
336.9 Krows/sec 		17511
485.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13265
60.2 MB/sec 		20319
92.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10751
9.74 MElements/sec 		22969
20.8 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14370
449.0 Mpixels/sec 		21499
671.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13777
366.0 Mpixels/sec 		19280
512.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24319
1.67 Kfunctions/sec 		44075
3.03 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17964
49.8 images/sec 		27157
75.3 images/sec
SGEMM 6731
142.3 Gflops 		13385
282.9 Gflops
SFFT 15387
38.4 Gflops 		25522
63.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 14023
10.5 Mpairs/sec 		24087
18.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 14069
2.05 Mpixels/sec 		23210
3.39 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 21428
62730.1 FPS 		32849
96161.4 FPS
HDR 15341
55.6 Mpixels/sec 		24856
90.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14685
257.3 Mpixels/sec 		25031
438.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9873
84.5 Words/sec 		13041
111.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 15705
4.59 Msubwindows/sec 		25169
7.35 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3935
10.9 GB/sec 		4665
12.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5601
77.3 ns 		6414
67.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3070
16.4 GB/sec 		4454
23.8 GB/sec

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