MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 1578 3265
Multi-Core Score 2630 6239
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.12.3 (Build 16D32) macOS 10.15 (Build 19A583)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-5257U @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP121.88Z.0167.B21.1612230252 Apple Inc. 229.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 1578 3265
AES 1378
1.04 GB/sec 		2648
1.99 GB/sec
LZMA 1013
1.58 MB/sec 		3284
5.13 MB/sec
JPEG 2208
17.8 Mpixels/sec 		3466
27.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 1907
26.5 Mpixels/sec 		3059
42.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1722
1.77 MB/sec 		2252
2.31 MB/sec
Dijkstra 1206
816.1 KTE/sec 		3650
2.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 1558
43.2 Krows/sec 		2480
68.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1675
7.61 MB/sec 		2828
12.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 600
544.5 KElements/sec 		4119
3.73 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 1960
61.3 Mpixels/sec 		2918
91.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 1439
38.2 Mpixels/sec 		3786
100.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 1644
113.1 functions/sec 		5074
348.9 functions/sec
Camera 2228
6.18 images/sec 		3552
9.85 images/sec
SGEMM 1371
29.0 Gflops 		1814
38.3 Gflops
SFFT 2164
5.40 Gflops 		3454
8.61 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1887
1.41 Mpairs/sec 		2868
2.14 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1982
289.5 Kpixels/sec 		2670
389.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2828
8281.4 FPS 		3834
11225.0 FPS
HDR 2543
9.22 Mpixels/sec 		3262
11.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1751
30.7 Mpixels/sec 		3051
53.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 935
8.00 Words/sec 		3117
26.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 1858
542.8 Ksubwindows/sec 		3123
912.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1057
2.93 GB/sec 		3543
9.82 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2319
5.36 Moperations/sec 		5184
83.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 1081
5.77 GB/sec 		2982
15.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 2630 6239
AES 2325
1.75 GB/sec 		5244
3.95 GB/sec
LZMA 2258
3.53 MB/sec 		7178
11.2 MB/sec
JPEG 4031
32.4 Mpixels/sec 		8440
67.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3334
46.2 Mpixels/sec 		7206
99.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3061
3.15 MB/sec 		5336
5.48 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2285
1.55 MTE/sec 		8789
5.95 MTE/sec
SQLite 2881
79.9 Krows/sec 		5509
152.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2809
12.8 MB/sec 		5858
26.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 985
892.9 KElements/sec 		6596
5.98 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3687
115.2 Mpixels/sec 		6181
193.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2668
70.9 Mpixels/sec 		7743
205.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3001
206.4 functions/sec 		11287
776.1 functions/sec
Camera 4454
12.4 images/sec 		8098
22.5 images/sec
SGEMM 1682
35.6 Gflops 		3253
68.8 Gflops
SFFT 3535
8.81 Gflops 		6626
16.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2983
2.23 Mpairs/sec 		6228
4.65 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3621
528.9 Kpixels/sec 		6036
881.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4867
14249.6 FPS 		9265
27122.9 FPS
HDR 4131
15.0 Mpixels/sec 		7284
26.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3271
57.3 Mpixels/sec 		6374
111.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 1555
13.3 Words/sec 		6191
53.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 3459
1.01 Msubwindows/sec 		6815
1.99 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 1512
4.19 GB/sec 		4457
12.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2329
5.38 Moperations/sec 		5223
82.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 1449
7.74 GB/sec 		3478
18.6 GB/sec

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