MacBook Air (Mid 2017) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3275 5925
Multi-Core Score 6229 19247
Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout Geekbench 4.3.3

System Information

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E226)
Model MacBook Air (Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-5350U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 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 3072 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 186.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 170.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 64.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3275 5925
AES 2511
1.89 GB/sec 		5031
3.79 GB/sec
LZMA 2583
4.03 MB/sec 		5157
8.05 MB/sec
JPEG 3395
27.3 Mpixels/sec 		5801
46.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2992
41.5 Mpixels/sec 		5351
74.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3007
3.09 MB/sec 		5591
5.75 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3682
2.49 MTE/sec 		7183
4.86 MTE/sec
SQLite 2784
77.2 Krows/sec 		4988
138.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2845
12.9 MB/sec 		5044
22.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3835
3.47 MElements/sec 		6535
5.92 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2939
91.8 Mpixels/sec 		5335
166.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3768
100.1 Mpixels/sec 		7054
187.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4883
335.8 functions/sec 		9492
652.6 functions/sec
Camera 3700
10.3 images/sec 		6087
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 2854
60.3 Gflops 		6042
127.7 Gflops
SFFT 3434
8.56 Gflops 		6394
15.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3024
2.26 Mpairs/sec 		5495
4.10 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3195
466.6 Kpixels/sec 		5079
741.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3878
11354.5 FPS 		6292
18419.5 FPS
HDR 3593
13.0 Mpixels/sec 		6813
24.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3404
59.6 Mpixels/sec 		6064
106.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2580
22.1 Words/sec 		6406
54.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 3036
886.8 Ksubwindows/sec 		5460
1.59 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3028
8.39 GB/sec 		5909
16.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5054
85.7 ns 		6271
69.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2780
14.8 GB/sec 		5367
28.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 6229 19247
AES 5437
4.09 GB/sec 		17920
13.5 GB/sec
LZMA 6334
9.89 MB/sec 		22283
34.8 MB/sec
JPEG 8265
66.5 Mpixels/sec 		25324
203.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7105
98.5 Mpixels/sec 		22275
308.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6168
6.34 MB/sec 		20441
21.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8529
5.77 MTE/sec 		23520
15.9 MTE/sec
SQLite 5605
155.4 Krows/sec 		19246
533.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5764
26.2 MB/sec 		19097
86.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5652
5.12 MElements/sec 		24704
22.4 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6730
210.3 Mpixels/sec 		21572
674.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7721
205.1 Mpixels/sec 		25298
672.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11613
798.5 functions/sec 		40100
2.76 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8170
22.7 images/sec 		24969
69.2 images/sec
SGEMM 4037
85.3 Gflops 		17715
374.5 Gflops
SFFT 7055
17.6 Gflops 		22799
56.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6760
5.05 Mpairs/sec 		22337
16.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6567
959.0 Kpixels/sec 		20125
2.94 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9777
28622.4 FPS 		29663
86836.2 FPS
HDR 7694
27.9 Mpixels/sec 		26346
95.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6723
117.8 Mpixels/sec 		22400
392.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5377
46.0 Words/sec 		16032
137.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 7447
2.18 Msubwindows/sec 		20019
5.85 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3651
10.1 GB/sec 		6945
19.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4704
92.0 ns 		6230
69.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3032
16.2 GB/sec 		5645
30.1 GB/sec

Compare

Remove Baseline Geekbench 6 now available