MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 3138 3778
Multi-Core Score 5849 15885
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G2208)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 3072 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2 Apple Inc. Mac-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0D.1602221713 Apple Inc. 15.16.6703.0.0,0
Memory 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 3138 3778
AES 2622
1.97 GB/sec 		3278
2.47 GB/sec
LZMA 3228
5.04 MB/sec 		2952
4.61 MB/sec
JPEG 3418
27.5 Mpixels/sec 		3727
30.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2959
41.0 Mpixels/sec 		3582
49.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2399
2.47 MB/sec 		3511
3.61 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3546
2.40 MTE/sec 		3972
2.69 MTE/sec
SQLite 2630
72.9 Krows/sec 		2758
76.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2514
11.4 MB/sec 		3242
14.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3555
3.22 MElements/sec 		4465
4.05 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2840
88.7 Mpixels/sec 		3659
114.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2938
78.1 Mpixels/sec 		3808
101.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3536
243.2 functions/sec 		6223
427.9 functions/sec
Camera 3445
9.55 images/sec 		4040
11.2 images/sec
SGEMM 1798
38.0 Gflops 		3783
80.0 Gflops
SFFT 2855
7.12 Gflops 		3857
9.62 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2904
2.17 Mpairs/sec 		3493
2.61 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2743
400.6 Kpixels/sec 		3252
474.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3813
11164.5 FPS 		4180
12238.0 FPS
HDR 3257
11.8 Mpixels/sec 		4876
17.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3184
55.8 Mpixels/sec 		4167
73.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3126
26.7 Words/sec 		3452
29.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 3120
911.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		2486
726.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3463
9.60 GB/sec 		3823
10.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5451
12.6 Moperations/sec 		4819
89.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2834
15.1 GB/sec 		3838
20.5 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Multi-Core Score 5849 15885
AES 5136
3.87 GB/sec 		10667
8.03 GB/sec
LZMA 7102
11.1 MB/sec 		18456
28.8 MB/sec
JPEG 8295
66.8 Mpixels/sec 		22653
182.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7110
98.6 Mpixels/sec 		16433
227.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5470
5.62 MB/sec 		15985
16.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8408
5.69 MTE/sec 		17881
12.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 5110
141.7 Krows/sec 		11942
331.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5396
24.5 MB/sec 		13733
62.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4326
3.92 MElements/sec 		20045
18.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5954
186.1 Mpixels/sec 		21409
668.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6292
167.2 Mpixels/sec 		19667
522.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7080
486.8 functions/sec 		32006
2.20 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7813
21.7 images/sec 		25082
69.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3222
68.1 Gflops 		11419
241.4 Gflops
SFFT 6648
16.6 Gflops 		24236
60.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6118
4.57 Mpairs/sec 		20409
15.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6094
889.9 Kpixels/sec 		16865
2.46 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9119
26695.8 FPS 		25028
73266.0 FPS
HDR 7388
26.8 Mpixels/sec 		22513
81.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6076
106.4 Mpixels/sec 		21970
384.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6063
51.9 Words/sec 		13609
116.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 6785
1.98 Msubwindows/sec 		22197
6.48 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4021
11.1 GB/sec 		5245
14.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5760
13.3 Moperations/sec 		5491
78.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3337
17.8 GB/sec 		5018
26.8 GB/sec

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