MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Single-Core Score 3544 2218
Multi-Core Score 6983 4480
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.14 (Build 18A391) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-4260U @ 1.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 4096 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2 Apple Inc. Mac-7DF21CB3ED6977E5 MacBookAir6,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00DA.B00.1804091930 Apple Inc. MBA61.88Z.0099.B22.1602221559
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Single-Core Score 3544 2218
AES 3030
2.28 GB/sec 		1477
1.11 GB/sec
LZMA 3918
6.12 MB/sec 		1779
2.78 MB/sec
JPEG 4080
32.8 Mpixels/sec 		1902
15.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3570
49.5 Mpixels/sec 		2193
30.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2382
2.45 MB/sec 		1990
2.05 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4097
2.77 MTE/sec 		3246
2.20 MTE/sec
SQLite 2913
80.8 Krows/sec 		2018
56.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3061
13.9 MB/sec 		1897
8.61 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4828
4.37 MElements/sec 		2783
2.52 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3382
105.7 Mpixels/sec 		2012
62.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4234
112.5 Mpixels/sec 		1993
53.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6133
421.7 functions/sec 		2520
173.3 functions/sec
Camera 3803
10.5 images/sec 		2259
6.27 images/sec
SGEMM 2102
44.4 Gflops 		896
18.9 Gflops
SFFT 3986
9.94 Gflops 		2165
5.40 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3187
2.38 Mpairs/sec 		2034
1.52 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3100
452.8 Kpixels/sec 		1618
236.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4297
12580.5 FPS 		2230
6529.7 FPS
HDR 3673
13.3 Mpixels/sec 		2448
8.88 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3794
66.5 Mpixels/sec 		2384
41.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3840
32.9 Words/sec 		2185
18.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 2744
801.7 Ksubwindows/sec 		2410
704.0 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3013
8.35 GB/sec 		2315
6.42 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5306
81.6 ns 		4087
9.44 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2658
14.2 GB/sec 		2491
13.3 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Multi-Core Score 6983 4480
AES 5868
4.42 GB/sec 		3752
2.83 GB/sec
LZMA 8206
12.8 MB/sec 		5012
7.83 MB/sec
JPEG 9844
79.2 Mpixels/sec 		5288
42.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8080
112.1 Mpixels/sec 		5513
76.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5925
6.09 MB/sec 		4371
4.49 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9393
6.36 MTE/sec 		8309
5.62 MTE/sec
SQLite 6328
175.4 Krows/sec 		3866
107.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6566
29.8 MB/sec 		4087
18.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8479
7.68 MElements/sec 		5395
4.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7146
223.3 Mpixels/sec 		4532
141.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8659
230.0 Mpixels/sec 		4457
118.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 13073
898.9 functions/sec 		5652
388.6 functions/sec
Camera 9403
26.1 images/sec 		5217
14.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3712
78.5 Gflops 		1953
41.3 Gflops
SFFT 7657
19.1 Gflops 		4752
11.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7000
5.23 Mpairs/sec 		4367
3.26 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7114
1.04 Mpixels/sec 		4288
626.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10831
31706.6 FPS 		5825
17053.9 FPS
HDR 8517
30.9 Mpixels/sec 		5552
20.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7451
130.5 Mpixels/sec 		5329
93.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6872
58.8 Words/sec 		4953
42.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 7937
2.32 Msubwindows/sec 		5143
1.50 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3880
10.8 GB/sec 		3035
8.41 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5551
78.0 ns 		4121
9.52 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3193
17.1 GB/sec 		3054
16.3 GB/sec

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