MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) vs MacBook Air (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3527 4216
Multi-Core Score 5698 7868
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System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D109)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i7-4650U @ 1.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9
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 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF MacBookAir6,1 Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 115.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.240.2.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.3133.0.0,0)
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 3527 4216
AES 3148
2.37 GB/sec 		2932
2.21 GB/sec
LZMA 3150
4.92 MB/sec 		3758
5.87 MB/sec
JPEG 3577
28.8 Mpixels/sec 		4234
34.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3445
47.8 Mpixels/sec 		4164
57.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3647
3.75 MB/sec 		4497
4.62 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3706
2.51 MTE/sec 		4087
2.77 MTE/sec
SQLite 3354
93.0 Krows/sec 		3864
107.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3430
15.6 MB/sec 		3802
17.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3635
3.29 MElements/sec 		5034
4.56 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3497
109.3 Mpixels/sec 		4003
125.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4251
112.9 Mpixels/sec 		5050
134.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4569
314.2 functions/sec 		7512
516.5 functions/sec
Camera 3869
10.7 images/sec 		4800
13.3 images/sec
SGEMM 3137
66.3 Gflops 		4659
98.5 Gflops
SFFT 3579
8.92 Gflops 		5002
12.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3277
2.45 Mpairs/sec 		4409
3.29 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2758
402.8 Kpixels/sec 		4101
598.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3818
11179.5 FPS 		5097
14923.1 FPS
HDR 3514
12.7 Mpixels/sec 		5383
19.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3531
61.9 Mpixels/sec 		4845
84.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3479
29.8 Words/sec 		4018
34.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 3483
1.02 Msubwindows/sec 		4358
1.27 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2936
8.13 GB/sec 		3536
9.80 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4950
11.4 Moperations/sec 		2955
146.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3059
16.3 GB/sec 		3493
18.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 5698 7868
AES 5504
4.14 GB/sec 		8170
6.15 GB/sec
LZMA 7155
11.2 MB/sec 		7805
12.2 MB/sec
JPEG 7770
62.5 Mpixels/sec 		9435
75.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7172
99.5 Mpixels/sec 		8442
117.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5785
5.95 MB/sec 		7199
7.40 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8769
5.93 MTE/sec 		10578
7.16 MTE/sec
SQLite 4976
138.0 Krows/sec 		7287
202.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5624
25.5 MB/sec 		7374
33.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4987
4.52 MElements/sec 		9801
8.88 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6060
189.4 Mpixels/sec 		7799
243.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6252
166.1 Mpixels/sec 		10196
270.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6679
459.3 functions/sec 		15154
1.04 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7281
20.2 images/sec 		9749
27.0 images/sec
SGEMM 3974
84.0 Gflops 		7633
161.3 Gflops
SFFT 5816
14.5 Gflops 		8873
22.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5926
4.43 Mpairs/sec 		8393
6.27 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5019
733.0 Kpixels/sec 		8054
1.18 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7861
23012.2 FPS 		11263
32973.1 FPS
HDR 6728
24.4 Mpixels/sec 		10272
37.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5716
100.1 Mpixels/sec 		8817
154.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5384
46.1 Words/sec 		6603
56.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 6621
1.93 Msubwindows/sec 		8452
2.47 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3750
10.4 GB/sec 		4823
13.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4913
11.3 Moperations/sec 		2943
147.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3226
17.2 GB/sec 		4745
25.3 GB/sec

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