iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 2892 2234
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 10866 4697

System Information

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Build 13F34) Mac OS X 10.12 (Build 16A238m)
Model iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Intel Core i5-3427U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 8192 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B59F58194171B iMac12,2 Apple Inc. Mac-2E6FAB96566FE58C MacBookAir5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.0047.B1F.1201241648 Apple Inc. MBA51.88Z.00EF.B04.1509111654
Memory 24.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Integer 2935 2184
Integer Multicore 12591 5107
AES 2926 2091
AES Multicore 7296 4091
Twofish 2924 2298
Twofish Multicore 12751 5796
SHA1 2933 2439
SHA1 Multicore 11734 4758
SHA2 2935 2791
SHA2 Multicore 11759 4824
BZip2 Compress 2907 2054
BZip2 Compress Multicore 14645 5474
BZip2 Decompress 2965 2156
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 14837 5635
JPEG Compress 2852 2119
JPEG Compress Multicore 13751 5306
JPEG Decompress 2954 2080
JPEG Decompress Multicore 11954 4503
PNG Compress 2903 2080
PNG Compress Multicore 15177 5727
PNG Decompress 2912 2088
PNG Decompress Multicore 13747 5525
Sobel 2898 2104
Sobel Multicore 12594 4667
Lua 2838 2065
Lua Multicore 12825 4926
Dijkstra 3233 2139
Dijkstra Multicore 12939 5514

Floating Point Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Floating Point 2958 2213
Floating Point Multicore 13191 5267
BlackScholes 3330 2514
BlackScholes Multicore 15669 6075
Mandelbrot 2927 2232
Mandelbrot Multicore 16462 7306
Sharpen Filter 2854 2045
Sharpen Filter Multicore 12053 4526
Blur Filter 2942 2149
Blur Filter Multicore 11824 4450
SGEMM 2796 1872
SGEMM Multicore 13056 4783
DGEMM 2999 2015
DGEMM Multicore 14109 5230
SFFT 2968 2166
SFFT Multicore 12347 4883
DFFT 2955 2336
DFFT Multicore 12805 5119
N-Body 2926 2772
N-Body Multicore 11492 5863
Ray Trace 2917 2162
Ray Trace Multicore 12968 5018

Memory Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Memory 2674 2376
Memory Multicore 2766 2741
Stream Copy 2689 2453
Stream Copy Multicore 2792 2755
Stream Scale 2703 2429
Stream Scale Multicore 2758 2816
Stream Add 2656 2207
Stream Add Multicore 2709 2668
Stream Triad 2652 2424
Stream Triad Multicore 2810 2729