MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Geekbench 2 Score 6358 6850

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.5 (Build 10H574) Mac OS X 10.8.3 (Build 12D78)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-620M @ 2.66 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Core i7-3667U @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 4096 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F22586C8 MacBookPro6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-66F35F19FE2A0D05 MacBookAir5,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP61.88Z.0057.B0C.1007261552 Apple Inc. MBA51.88Z.00EF.B02.1211271028
Memory 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Integer 5356 5179
Blowfish
single-core scalar
2089 2384
Blowfish
multi-core scalar
6660 7799
Text Compress
single-core scalar
2936 2746
Text Compress
multi-core scalar
7238 7044
Text Decompress
single-core scalar
3021 3030
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar
7676 7873
Image Compress
single-core scalar
2759 2308
Image Compress
multi-core scalar
6726 6127
Image Decompress
single-core scalar
2952 2397
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar
6227 5384
Lua
single-core scalar
5164 4785
Lua
multi-core scalar
10827 10280

Floating Point Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Floating Point 9398 9266
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar
2765 2790
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar
9157 10389
Dot Product
single-core scalar
4492 4260
Dot Product
single-core vector
5435 6601
Dot Product
multi-core scalar
8819 11738
Dot Product
multi-core vector
15087 14588
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar
1794 1415
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar
3950 2722
Primality Test
single-core scalar
7191 6536
Primality Test
multi-core scalar
13430 12651
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar
6918 6097
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar
19476 18671
Blur Image
single-core scalar
8694 7188
Blur Image
multi-core scalar
24376 24078

Memory Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Memory 4276 5985
Read Sequential
single-core scalar
4534 7081
Write Sequential
single-core scalar
7252 10248
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar
4216 4195
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar
2388 3550
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar
2991 4853

Stream Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2010) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Stream 3396 5974
Stream Copy
single-core scalar
3370 7071
Stream Copy
single-core vector
3744 7563
Stream Scale
single-core scalar
3371 7241
Stream Scale
single-core vector
3396 7430
Stream Add
single-core scalar
3182 2530
Stream Add
single-core vector
3769 7541
Stream Triad
single-core scalar
3522 2893
Stream Triad
single-core vector
2819 5527