MacBook (Mid 2017) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook (Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3790 3416
Multi-Core Score 6840 6091
Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook (Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15 (Build 19A526h) macOS 10.16 (Build 20G95)
Model MacBook (Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core m3-7Y32 @ 1.20 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4
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-EE2EBD4B90B839A8 MacBook10,1 Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 178.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 427.140.8.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook (Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3790 3416
AES 2519
1.90 GB/sec 		2748
2.07 GB/sec
LZMA 3313
5.18 MB/sec 		3051
4.77 MB/sec
JPEG 3795
30.5 Mpixels/sec 		3347
26.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3565
49.4 Mpixels/sec 		3092
42.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3611
3.71 MB/sec 		3112
3.20 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4068
2.75 MTE/sec 		3834
2.59 MTE/sec
SQLite 3356
93.1 Krows/sec 		2862
79.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3401
15.4 MB/sec 		2970
13.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4330
3.92 MElements/sec 		3581
3.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3460
108.1 Mpixels/sec 		3018
94.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4373
116.2 Mpixels/sec 		3638
96.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6237
428.9 functions/sec 		5272
362.5 functions/sec
Camera 3991
11.1 images/sec 		3467
9.62 images/sec
SGEMM 3754
79.4 Gflops 		2963
62.6 Gflops
SFFT 4220
10.5 Gflops 		3581
8.93 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3638
2.72 Mpairs/sec 		3141
2.35 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3305
482.7 Kpixels/sec 		2973
434.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4242
12419.5 FPS 		4001
11713.2 FPS
HDR 4559
16.5 Mpixels/sec 		3695
13.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4069
71.3 Mpixels/sec 		3181
55.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3696
31.6 Words/sec 		3163
27.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3587
1.05 Msubwindows/sec 		3232
944.1 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3232
8.95 GB/sec 		3302
9.15 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4739
91.4 ns 		5381
80.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3408
18.2 GB/sec 		3102
16.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook (Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 6840 6091
AES 7122
5.36 GB/sec 		5095
3.84 GB/sec
LZMA 6664
10.4 MB/sec 		6596
10.3 MB/sec
JPEG 8211
66.1 Mpixels/sec 		7810
62.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7579
105.1 Mpixels/sec 		6750
93.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6488
6.67 MB/sec 		5537
5.69 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9706
6.57 MTE/sec 		8444
5.71 MTE/sec
SQLite 6192
171.7 Krows/sec 		5488
152.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6423
29.2 MB/sec 		5362
24.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8342
7.56 MElements/sec 		5668
5.14 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6786
212.1 Mpixels/sec 		6269
195.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 8685
230.7 Mpixels/sec 		7557
200.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 13165
905.2 functions/sec 		11642
800.5 functions/sec
Camera 8499
23.6 images/sec 		7805
21.6 images/sec
SGEMM 6130
129.6 Gflops 		5089
107.6 Gflops
SFFT 7291
18.2 Gflops 		6626
16.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7086
5.29 Mpairs/sec 		6615
4.94 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6740
984.2 Kpixels/sec 		6114
892.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9457
27686.0 FPS 		9136
26745.9 FPS
HDR 8585
31.1 Mpixels/sec 		6695
24.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7546
132.2 Mpixels/sec 		6340
111.1 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6234
53.3 Words/sec 		5680
48.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 7482
2.19 Msubwindows/sec 		6935
2.03 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3980
11.0 GB/sec 		3770
10.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3137
138.0 ns 		4646
93.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4064
21.7 GB/sec 		3392
18.1 GB/sec

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