MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 4713 4240
Multi-Core Score 15912 15186
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System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D109)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-6920HQ @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
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 8192 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C MacBookPro13,3 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5
BIOS Apple Inc. 256.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 4713 4240
AES 4165
3.14 GB/sec 		3455
2.60 GB/sec
LZMA 4350
6.79 MB/sec 		3890
6.08 MB/sec
JPEG 4792
38.6 Mpixels/sec 		4268
34.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4436
61.5 Mpixels/sec 		3912
54.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4747
4.88 MB/sec 		4093
4.21 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5263
3.56 MTE/sec 		4816
3.26 MTE/sec
SQLite 4175
115.8 Krows/sec 		3773
104.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4351
19.8 MB/sec 		3684
16.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5496
4.98 MElements/sec 		4807
4.36 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4224
132.0 Mpixels/sec 		3951
123.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6017
159.9 Mpixels/sec 		4917
130.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7887
542.3 functions/sec 		7326
503.7 functions/sec
Camera 5141
14.3 images/sec 		4482
12.4 images/sec
SGEMM 5167
109.2 Gflops 		3527
74.6 Gflops
SFFT 5350
13.3 Gflops 		4131
10.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4647
3.47 Mpairs/sec 		3730
2.79 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4264
622.7 Kpixels/sec 		3257
475.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5281
15461.1 FPS 		4451
13029.7 FPS
HDR 5703
20.7 Mpixels/sec 		4062
14.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5197
91.1 Mpixels/sec 		4208
73.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5398
46.2 Words/sec 		4316
36.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 4605
1.35 Msubwindows/sec 		4073
1.19 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3727
10.3 GB/sec 		3725
10.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3656
118.4 ns 		5216
83.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3805
20.3 GB/sec 		4615
24.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 15912 15186
AES 15194
11.4 GB/sec 		11445
8.62 GB/sec
LZMA 17642
27.6 MB/sec 		17372
27.1 MB/sec
JPEG 21300
171.4 Mpixels/sec 		21129
170.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 17724
245.8 Mpixels/sec 		16519
229.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 17004
17.5 MB/sec 		15009
15.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 17559
11.9 MTE/sec 		26224
17.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 16553
458.9 Krows/sec 		14207
393.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 16710
75.9 MB/sec 		14605
66.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 20144
18.3 MElements/sec 		19381
17.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 17187
537.0 Mpixels/sec 		16996
531.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 21642
575.0 Mpixels/sec 		20126
534.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 34536
2.37 Kfunctions/sec 		30910
2.13 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 21021
58.3 images/sec 		19816
54.9 images/sec
SGEMM 14624
309.1 Gflops 		13186
278.7 Gflops
SFFT 20124
50.2 Gflops 		17517
43.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 18499
13.8 Mpairs/sec 		15621
11.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 18053
2.64 Mpixels/sec 		15013
2.19 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 25193
73750.5 FPS 		22313
65318.6 FPS
HDR 21595
78.3 Mpixels/sec 		18633
67.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18596
325.8 Mpixels/sec 		17661
309.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 12011
102.8 Words/sec 		17820
152.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 19752
5.77 Msubwindows/sec 		17710
5.17 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5185
14.4 GB/sec 		5145
14.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3580
120.9 ns 		5322
81.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4597
24.5 GB/sec 		4571
24.4 GB/sec

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