MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3250 4591
Multi-Core Score 6178 15690
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.2.3 Pro

System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G9323) macOS 10.13.5 (Build 17F77)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7820HQ @ 2.90 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 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 3072 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2 Apple Inc. Mac-551B86E5744E2388 MacBookPro14,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 422.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP143.88Z.0175.B00.1804091703
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3250 4591
AES 2619
1.97 GB/sec 		3240
2.44 GB/sec
LZMA 3203
5.00 MB/sec 		4444
6.94 MB/sec
JPEG 3518
28.3 Mpixels/sec 		4950
39.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3110
43.1 Mpixels/sec 		4549
63.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2374
2.44 MB/sec 		4864
5.00 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3584
2.43 MTE/sec 		4554
3.08 MTE/sec
SQLite 2513
69.7 Krows/sec 		4320
119.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2708
12.3 MB/sec 		4008
18.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4128
3.74 MElements/sec 		5616
5.09 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2819
88.1 Mpixels/sec 		4426
138.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3798
100.9 Mpixels/sec 		5000
132.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4902
337.0 functions/sec 		8140
559.7 functions/sec
Camera 3547
9.84 images/sec 		5200
14.4 images/sec
SGEMM 1772
37.5 Gflops 		5225
110.5 Gflops
SFFT 3512
8.76 Gflops 		5406
13.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2905
2.17 Mpairs/sec 		4729
3.53 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2721
397.5 Kpixels/sec 		4422
645.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3874
11341.5 FPS 		5499
16099.2 FPS
HDR 3291
11.9 Mpixels/sec 		5845
21.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3304
57.9 Mpixels/sec 		5212
91.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2996
25.6 Words/sec 		5519
47.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3108
907.9 Ksubwindows/sec 		4745
1.39 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3437
9.52 GB/sec 		3376
9.35 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5051
85.7 ns 		3178
136.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2981
15.9 GB/sec 		3459
18.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 6178 15690
AES 4844
3.65 GB/sec 		15376
11.6 GB/sec
LZMA 7114
11.1 MB/sec 		17857
27.9 MB/sec
JPEG 8357
67.2 Mpixels/sec 		21850
175.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7194
99.8 Mpixels/sec 		17774
246.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5554
5.71 MB/sec 		17486
18.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8641
5.85 MTE/sec 		16755
11.3 MTE/sec
SQLite 5409
150.0 Krows/sec 		15260
423.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5780
26.2 MB/sec 		16159
73.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6514
5.90 MElements/sec 		17652
16.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6153
192.3 Mpixels/sec 		17426
544.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7747
205.8 Mpixels/sec 		18221
484.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11375
782.1 functions/sec 		35128
2.42 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8106
22.5 images/sec 		20887
57.9 images/sec
SGEMM 3157
66.7 Gflops 		15253
322.4 Gflops
SFFT 6694
16.7 Gflops 		20726
51.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6188
4.62 Mpairs/sec 		19066
14.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6119
893.7 Kpixels/sec 		18490
2.70 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9276
27154.5 FPS 		26099
76402.9 FPS
HDR 7202
26.1 Mpixels/sec 		22159
80.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6372
111.6 Mpixels/sec 		18832
329.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6076
52.0 Words/sec 		11730
100.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 6789
1.98 Msubwindows/sec 		20274
5.92 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4327
12.0 GB/sec 		4720
13.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5052
85.7 ns 		3129
138.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3429
18.3 GB/sec 		4215
22.5 GB/sec

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