MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4653 3679
Multi-Core Score 16442 7230
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.2 (Build 18C54) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G3020)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-4980HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 149.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 230.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4653 3679
AES 3920
2.95 GB/sec 		2917
2.20 GB/sec
LZMA 4515
7.05 MB/sec 		3887
6.07 MB/sec
JPEG 4879
39.3 Mpixels/sec 		3984
32.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4402
61.0 Mpixels/sec 		3528
48.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4544
4.67 MB/sec 		2565
2.64 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5301
3.59 MTE/sec 		3993
2.70 MTE/sec
SQLite 4158
115.3 Krows/sec 		2859
79.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4154
18.9 MB/sec 		3187
14.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4874
4.42 MElements/sec 		4684
4.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4276
133.6 Mpixels/sec 		3361
105.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5493
145.9 Mpixels/sec 		4185
111.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8025
551.8 functions/sec 		6077
417.8 functions/sec
Camera 4912
13.6 images/sec 		4057
11.3 images/sec
SGEMM 3885
82.1 Gflops 		2038
43.1 Gflops
SFFT 4429
11.0 Gflops 		3991
9.95 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4020
3.00 Mpairs/sec 		3002
2.24 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3539
516.8 Kpixels/sec 		3112
454.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4867
14249.0 FPS 		4367
12783.9 FPS
HDR 4450
16.1 Mpixels/sec 		3790
13.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4644
81.4 Mpixels/sec 		3808
66.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4841
41.4 Words/sec 		3873
33.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 4314
1.26 Msubwindows/sec 		3433
1.00 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3906
10.8 GB/sec 		3789
10.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5623
77.0 ns 		5496
78.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 5170
27.6 GB/sec 		3205
17.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 16442 7230
AES 12121
9.13 GB/sec 		6142
4.63 GB/sec
LZMA 19115
29.9 MB/sec 		8609
13.4 MB/sec
JPEG 23202
186.7 Mpixels/sec 		9806
78.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 18019
249.9 Mpixels/sec 		8361
115.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 16561
17.0 MB/sec 		6323
6.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 28672
19.4 MTE/sec 		9827
6.65 MTE/sec
SQLite 15662
434.2 Krows/sec 		6435
178.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 15979
72.5 MB/sec 		6728
30.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 20219
18.3 MElements/sec 		9221
8.35 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 18856
589.2 Mpixels/sec 		7210
225.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 22137
588.1 Mpixels/sec 		8943
237.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 33875
2.33 Kfunctions/sec 		13642
938.0 functions/sec
Camera 21863
60.6 images/sec 		9410
26.1 images/sec
SGEMM 14140
298.9 Gflops 		3886
82.2 Gflops
SFFT 18829
46.9 Gflops 		7658
19.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 17144
12.8 Mpairs/sec 		7091
5.30 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 15792
2.31 Mpixels/sec 		7139
1.04 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 23779
69610.7 FPS 		10782
31565.5 FPS
HDR 19891
72.1 Mpixels/sec 		8516
30.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18522
324.5 Mpixels/sec 		7444
130.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 19192
164.2 Words/sec 		7253
62.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 19394
5.66 Msubwindows/sec 		7829
2.29 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5366
14.9 GB/sec 		4664
12.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5591
77.4 ns 		5601
77.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4831
25.8 GB/sec 		3537
18.9 GB/sec

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