MBP Retina 15'' mid 2012 vs MBP Retina 15'' mid 2014

Hi there,
I have a Mackbook Pro Retina 15'' mid 2012 and I am thinking on upgrading to a Mackbook Pro Retina 15'' mid 2014 (I believe it is the latest version), but I wanted to know your opinion on the specs, which is better and if its worth the try?
I know that there are some pretty significant differences between both, but the mid 2014 brings differences that some find not very good.
Can you please give me your honest opinion?
Thanks in advance

The only significant difference that I am aware of is that the new MBPs have PCIe storage and Ivy Bridge CPUs replaced by Haswell CPUs.  That said, if you look at the benchmark score, i see that the differences are not that dramatic and even more important, in real world operation, the differences would be noticeable only when running very, very resource intensive applications.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
In my opinion, a new one is not warranted, but it is your money, not mine.
Ciao.

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