MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3236 6032
Multi-Core Score 5718 21553
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System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
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 3072 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2 Apple Inc. Mac-65CE76090165799A iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0166.B12.1602221953 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0110.B00.1708080012
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 64.00 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 3236 6032
AES 2709
2.04 GB/sec 		3869
2.91 GB/sec
LZMA 2862
4.47 MB/sec 		5295
8.27 MB/sec
JPEG 3373
27.1 Mpixels/sec 		5964
48.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3077
42.7 Mpixels/sec 		5527
76.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3125
3.21 MB/sec 		5794
5.96 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3533
2.39 MTE/sec 		6607
4.47 MTE/sec
SQLite 2982
82.7 Krows/sec 		5209
144.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2809
12.8 MB/sec 		5131
23.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3007
2.72 MElements/sec 		6740
6.11 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2948
92.1 Mpixels/sec 		5536
173.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2865
76.1 Mpixels/sec 		5944
157.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3691
253.8 functions/sec 		9856
677.7 functions/sec
Camera 3340
9.26 images/sec 		6214
17.2 images/sec
SGEMM 2930
61.9 Gflops 		6173
130.5 Gflops
SFFT 3527
8.79 Gflops 		6567
16.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3107
2.32 Mpairs/sec 		5634
4.21 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3025
441.8 Kpixels/sec 		5279
770.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3786
11083.7 FPS 		6528
19112.2 FPS
HDR 3575
13.0 Mpixels/sec 		7116
25.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2870
50.3 Mpixels/sec 		6440
112.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3064
26.2 Words/sec 		6634
56.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 3242
947.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		5610
1.64 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3052
8.46 GB/sec 		6392
17.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5316
12.3 Moperations/sec 		6623
65.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2990
16.0 GB/sec 		5852
31.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 5718 21553
AES 5068
3.82 GB/sec 		19696
14.8 GB/sec
LZMA 6517
10.2 MB/sec 		24183
37.8 MB/sec
JPEG 7706
62.0 Mpixels/sec 		29307
235.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6773
93.9 Mpixels/sec 		23979
332.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5481
5.63 MB/sec 		23331
24.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7787
5.27 MTE/sec 		24744
16.7 MTE/sec
SQLite 5214
144.6 Krows/sec 		19982
554.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5222
23.7 MB/sec 		21756
98.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4038
3.66 MElements/sec 		26708
24.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6044
188.9 Mpixels/sec 		22284
696.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6185
164.3 Mpixels/sec 		24974
663.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6623
455.4 functions/sec 		46657
3.21 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7596
21.1 images/sec 		29256
81.1 images/sec
SGEMM 4962
104.9 Gflops 		19373
409.5 Gflops
SFFT 6542
16.3 Gflops 		27287
68.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6490
4.85 Mpairs/sec 		25741
19.2 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6095
890.0 Kpixels/sec 		24700
3.61 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9135
26742.1 FPS 		34285
100366.1 FPS
HDR 7710
28.0 Mpixels/sec 		29082
105.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6190
108.5 Mpixels/sec 		26817
469.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5523
47.3 Words/sec 		17793
152.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 6918
2.02 Msubwindows/sec 		26671
7.79 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3641
10.1 GB/sec 		7699
21.3 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4592
10.6 Moperations/sec 		6550
66.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2967
15.8 GB/sec 		6380
34.1 GB/sec

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