MacBook Air (Late 2018) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3734 3424
Multi-Core Score 7556 11139
Geekbench 4.3.2 Pro Geekbench 4.0.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D109) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
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 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E MacBookPro9,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.240.2.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.3133.0.0,0) Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D3.B0D.1602221713
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3734 3424
AES 2698
2.03 GB/sec 		2894
2.18 GB/sec
LZMA 3053
4.77 MB/sec 		3547
5.54 MB/sec
JPEG 3727
30.0 Mpixels/sec 		3847
31.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4139
57.4 Mpixels/sec 		3430
47.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3305
3.40 MB/sec 		2618
2.69 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3371
2.28 MTE/sec 		3769
2.55 MTE/sec
SQLite 3150
87.3 Krows/sec 		2932
81.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3980
18.1 MB/sec 		2724
12.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4401
3.99 MElements/sec 		3887
3.52 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3585
112.0 Mpixels/sec 		3102
96.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4510
119.8 Mpixels/sec 		3567
94.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6023
414.1 functions/sec 		3816
262.4 functions/sec
Camera 4002
11.1 images/sec 		3729
10.3 images/sec
SGEMM 3882
82.1 Gflops 		1973
41.7 Gflops
SFFT 4231
10.5 Gflops 		3818
9.52 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3812
2.85 Mpairs/sec 		3143
2.35 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3498
510.9 Kpixels/sec 		2941
429.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5009
14663.6 FPS 		4242
12420.1 FPS
HDR 4847
17.6 Mpixels/sec 		3488
12.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4386
76.8 Mpixels/sec 		3523
61.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3039
26.0 Words/sec 		4017
34.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3695
1.08 Msubwindows/sec 		3454
1.01 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3258
9.03 GB/sec 		3595
9.96 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3350
129.2 ns 		5241
12.1 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3264
17.4 GB/sec 		2891
15.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 7556 11139
AES 8306
6.26 GB/sec 		9608
7.24 GB/sec
LZMA 7566
11.8 MB/sec 		15908
24.8 MB/sec
JPEG 9478
76.3 Mpixels/sec 		19223
154.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8714
120.8 Mpixels/sec 		14837
205.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7382
7.59 MB/sec 		12350
12.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 10238
6.93 MTE/sec 		14902
10.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 7023
194.7 Krows/sec 		6177
171.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 7343
33.3 MB/sec 		12422
56.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9552
8.65 MElements/sec 		7346
6.66 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7581
236.9 Mpixels/sec 		13832
432.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 9951
264.4 Mpixels/sec 		13339
354.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 14548
1.00 Kfunctions/sec 		10100
694.4 functions/sec
Camera 9706
26.9 images/sec 		17773
49.3 images/sec
SGEMM 6606
139.7 Gflops 		6959
147.1 Gflops
SFFT 8580
21.4 Gflops 		15233
38.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8352
6.24 Mpairs/sec 		13843
10.3 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7689
1.12 Mpixels/sec 		13950
2.04 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11361
33259.0 FPS 		21008
61500.2 FPS
HDR 8987
32.6 Mpixels/sec 		16139
58.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7630
133.7 Mpixels/sec 		13818
242.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5384
46.1 Words/sec 		11238
96.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 8633
2.52 Msubwindows/sec 		15589
4.55 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4297
11.9 GB/sec 		4698
13.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2545
170.1 ns 		5523
12.8 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4624
24.7 GB/sec 		3484
18.6 GB/sec

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