MacBook i5 High Sierra (Mid 2017) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook i5 High Sierra (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3852 4035
Multi-Core Score 7242 11106
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System Information

MacBook i5 High Sierra (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.13.1 (Build 17B48) macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C38b)
Model MacBook (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-7Y54 @ 1.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
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 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-EE2EBD4B90B839A8 MacBook10,1 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5
BIOS Apple Inc. MB101.88Z.0154.B00.1708080122 Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook i5 High Sierra (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3852 4035
AES 2688
2.02 GB/sec 		3415
2.57 GB/sec
LZMA 3632
5.67 MB/sec 		3496
5.46 MB/sec
JPEG 3980
32.0 Mpixels/sec 		4059
32.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3760
52.1 Mpixels/sec 		3774
52.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3975
4.09 MB/sec 		3614
3.71 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4125
2.79 MTE/sec 		4404
2.98 MTE/sec
SQLite 3562
98.7 Krows/sec 		3414
94.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3462
15.7 MB/sec 		3466
15.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4713
4.27 MElements/sec 		4680
4.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3429
107.2 Mpixels/sec 		3680
115.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3638
96.7 Mpixels/sec 		4769
126.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6766
465.2 functions/sec 		6487
446.0 functions/sec
Camera 4241
11.8 images/sec 		4294
11.9 images/sec
SGEMM 4018
85.0 Gflops 		3483
73.6 Gflops
SFFT 4406
11.0 Gflops 		4096
10.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3857
2.88 Mpairs/sec 		3520
2.63 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3621
528.8 Kpixels/sec 		3311
483.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4517
13223.6 FPS 		4436
12988.2 FPS
HDR 4699
17.0 Mpixels/sec 		3971
14.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4275
74.9 Mpixels/sec 		4051
71.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3994
34.2 Words/sec 		4235
36.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3902
1.14 Msubwindows/sec 		3856
1.13 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3236
8.97 GB/sec 		3618
10.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3330
130.0 ns 		5099
84.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3401
18.2 GB/sec 		4252
22.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook i5 High Sierra (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 7242 11106
AES 7517
5.66 GB/sec 		9050
6.82 GB/sec
LZMA 7334
11.5 MB/sec 		9911
15.5 MB/sec
JPEG 8912
71.7 Mpixels/sec 		12706
102.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7970
110.5 Mpixels/sec 		9133
126.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6784
6.97 MB/sec 		8683
8.92 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9960
6.74 MTE/sec 		13109
8.87 MTE/sec
SQLite 6836
189.5 Krows/sec 		7774
215.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6427
29.2 MB/sec 		7991
36.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8864
8.03 MElements/sec 		11218
10.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7071
220.9 Mpixels/sec 		11440
357.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7946
211.1 Mpixels/sec 		15873
421.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 14340
986.0 functions/sec 		23587
1.62 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8951
24.8 images/sec 		13523
37.5 images/sec
SGEMM 6914
146.2 Gflops 		8008
169.3 Gflops
SFFT 8171
20.4 Gflops 		15192
37.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7599
5.68 Mpairs/sec 		14283
10.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7552
1.10 Mpixels/sec 		13822
2.02 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10604
31044.5 FPS 		21807
63837.2 FPS
HDR 9407
34.1 Mpixels/sec 		17517
63.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8124
142.3 Mpixels/sec 		14743
258.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6643
56.8 Words/sec 		16621
142.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 8160
2.38 Msubwindows/sec 		17328
5.06 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4114
11.4 GB/sec 		5027
13.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2936
147.4 ns 		5189
83.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4191
22.4 GB/sec 		4479
23.9 GB/sec

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