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 3625 2218
Multi-Core Score 7011 4480
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G22010) 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. 222.0.0.0.0 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 3625 2218
AES 3033
2.28 GB/sec 		1477
1.11 GB/sec
LZMA 3771
5.89 MB/sec 		1779
2.78 MB/sec
JPEG 4051
32.6 Mpixels/sec 		1902
15.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3451
47.9 Mpixels/sec 		2193
30.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2677
2.75 MB/sec 		1990
2.05 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4000
2.71 MTE/sec 		3246
2.20 MTE/sec
SQLite 3051
84.6 Krows/sec 		2018
56.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2885
13.1 MB/sec 		1897
8.61 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4829
4.38 MElements/sec 		2783
2.52 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3280
102.5 Mpixels/sec 		2012
62.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3578
95.1 Mpixels/sec 		1993
53.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6155
423.2 functions/sec 		2520
173.3 functions/sec
Camera 3958
11.0 images/sec 		2259
6.27 images/sec
SGEMM 2049
43.3 Gflops 		896
18.9 Gflops
SFFT 3917
9.77 Gflops 		2165
5.40 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3270
2.44 Mpairs/sec 		2034
1.52 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3179
464.3 Kpixels/sec 		1618
236.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4522
13239.1 FPS 		2230
6529.7 FPS
HDR 3699
13.4 Mpixels/sec 		2448
8.88 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3817
66.9 Mpixels/sec 		2384
41.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3883
33.2 Words/sec 		2185
18.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 3622
1.06 Msubwindows/sec 		2410
704.0 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3475
9.63 GB/sec 		2315
6.42 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5464
79.2 ns 		4087
9.44 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2883
15.4 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 7011 4480
AES 5871
4.42 GB/sec 		3752
2.83 GB/sec
LZMA 8516
13.3 MB/sec 		5012
7.83 MB/sec
JPEG 9827
79.1 Mpixels/sec 		5288
42.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8219
114.0 Mpixels/sec 		5513
76.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6427
6.61 MB/sec 		4371
4.49 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9214
6.24 MTE/sec 		8309
5.62 MTE/sec
SQLite 6425
178.1 Krows/sec 		3866
107.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6317
28.7 MB/sec 		4087
18.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9050
8.20 MElements/sec 		5395
4.89 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6946
217.1 Mpixels/sec 		4532
141.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7266
193.1 Mpixels/sec 		4457
118.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 13578
933.6 functions/sec 		5652
388.6 functions/sec
Camera 9082
25.2 images/sec 		5217
14.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3752
79.3 Gflops 		1953
41.3 Gflops
SFFT 7863
19.6 Gflops 		4752
11.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7270
5.43 Mpairs/sec 		4367
3.26 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7096
1.04 Mpixels/sec 		4288
626.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10891
31884.4 FPS 		5825
17053.9 FPS
HDR 8388
30.4 Mpixels/sec 		5552
20.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7395
129.6 Mpixels/sec 		5329
93.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6820
58.4 Words/sec 		4953
42.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 7995
2.34 Msubwindows/sec 		5143
1.50 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4073
11.3 GB/sec 		3035
8.41 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5672
76.3 ns 		4121
9.52 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3295
17.6 GB/sec 		3054
16.3 GB/sec

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