MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 2764 4516
Multi-Core Score 5071 14737
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System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G1815) macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C88)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-2677M @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 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 4096 KB 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-742912EFDBEE19B3 MacBookAir4,2 Apple Inc. Mac-551B86E5744E2388 MacBookPro14,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 130.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP143.88Z.0167.B00.1708080129
Memory 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 2764 4516
AES 2062
1.55 GB/sec 		2987
2.25 GB/sec
LZMA 2873
4.49 MB/sec 		4016
6.27 MB/sec
JPEG 3201
25.8 Mpixels/sec 		4576
36.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2551
35.4 Mpixels/sec 		4289
59.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2098
2.16 MB/sec 		4520
4.65 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2680
1.81 MTE/sec 		4273
2.89 MTE/sec
SQLite 2058
57.1 Krows/sec 		3958
109.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2083
9.46 MB/sec 		3864
17.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3585
3.25 MElements/sec 		5474
4.96 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2175
68.0 Mpixels/sec 		4096
128.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2145
57.0 Mpixels/sec 		4614
122.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3961
272.4 functions/sec 		7456
512.7 functions/sec
Camera 2975
8.25 images/sec 		5044
14.0 images/sec
SGEMM 1581
33.4 Gflops 		4891
103.4 Gflops
SFFT 3071
7.66 Gflops 		5239
13.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2197
1.64 Mpairs/sec 		4536
3.39 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2319
338.7 Kpixels/sec 		4147
605.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3436
10060.9 FPS 		5259
15396.5 FPS
HDR 2675
9.70 Mpixels/sec 		5441
19.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2978
52.2 Mpixels/sec 		4774
83.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3051
26.1 Words/sec 		4787
41.0 Words/sec
Face Detection 2872
838.9 Ksubwindows/sec 		4496
1.31 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2750
7.62 GB/sec 		3569
9.89 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6233
69.5 ns 		4790
90.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2375
12.7 GB/sec 		4459
23.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 5071 14737
AES 4624
3.48 GB/sec 		14667
11.0 GB/sec
LZMA 6343
9.91 MB/sec 		17111
26.7 MB/sec
JPEG 7359
59.2 Mpixels/sec 		21196
170.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6124
84.9 Mpixels/sec 		17307
240.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4679
4.81 MB/sec 		16162
16.6 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7714
5.22 MTE/sec 		16822
11.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 4380
121.4 Krows/sec 		13143
364.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4490
20.4 MB/sec 		14802
67.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6415
5.81 MElements/sec 		12741
11.5 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5285
165.2 Mpixels/sec 		16651
520.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5295
140.7 Mpixels/sec 		17098
454.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9444
649.4 functions/sec 		32603
2.24 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 6358
17.6 images/sec 		20642
57.2 images/sec
SGEMM 2842
60.1 Gflops 		12914
273.0 Gflops
SFFT 5806
14.5 Gflops 		20036
49.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4459
3.33 Mpairs/sec 		18237
13.6 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5076
741.3 Kpixels/sec 		17651
2.58 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5910
17300.8 FPS 		23548
68934.5 FPS
HDR 4238
15.4 Mpixels/sec 		20852
75.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4798
84.1 Mpixels/sec 		19191
336.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5475
46.8 Words/sec 		10576
90.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 5886
1.72 Msubwindows/sec 		19416
5.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3078
8.53 GB/sec 		5470
15.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5244
82.6 ns 		3447
125.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2526
13.5 GB/sec 		4282
22.9 GB/sec

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