MacBook Air (Late 2018) vs MacBook Air (Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4362 236
Multi-Core Score 7861 459
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System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G87) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G103)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5350U @ 1.80 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-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.270.99.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6568.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 428.40.10.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4362 236
AES 3025
2.28 GB/sec 		162
125.6 MB/sec
LZMA 4094
6.39 MB/sec 		155
249.0 KB/sec
JPEG 4590
36.9 Mpixels/sec 		199
1.61 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4234
58.7 Mpixels/sec 		194
2.69 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4551
4.68 MB/sec 		176
185.6 KB/sec
Dijkstra 4504
3.05 MTE/sec 		240
162.5 KTE/sec
SQLite 3983
110.4 Krows/sec 		166
4.62 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4120
18.7 MB/sec 		170
791.0 KB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5318
4.82 MElements/sec 		211
192.0 KElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4146
129.6 Mpixels/sec 		196
6.14 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5498
146.1 Mpixels/sec 		231
6.15 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7597
522.4 functions/sec 		312
21.5 functions/sec
Camera 4402
12.2 images/sec 		217
0.60 images/sec
SGEMM 4597
97.2 Gflops 		184
3.89 Gflops
SFFT 4938
12.3 Gflops 		230
573.5 Mflops
N-Body Physics 4420
3.30 Mpairs/sec 		193
144.9 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4073
594.8 Kpixels/sec 		193
28.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5097
14921.5 FPS 		253
742.8 FPS
HDR 5415
19.6 Mpixels/sec 		253
920.3 Kpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4899
85.8 Mpixels/sec 		220
3.87 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4046
34.6 Words/sec 		227
1.95 Words/sec
Face Detection 4471
1.31 Msubwindows/sec 		217
63.6 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3535
9.80 GB/sec 		234
664.1 MB/sec
Memory Latency 3707
116.8 ns 		782
553.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3502
18.7 GB/sec 		253
1.35 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 7861 459
AES 8358
6.29 GB/sec 		374
289.0 MB/sec
LZMA 7880
12.3 MB/sec 		513
820.9 KB/sec
JPEG 9391
75.6 Mpixels/sec 		591
4.76 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8693
120.6 Mpixels/sec 		500
6.94 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7568
7.78 MB/sec 		404
425.6 KB/sec
Dijkstra 10872
7.36 MTE/sec 		681
461.4 KTE/sec
SQLite 6953
192.8 Krows/sec 		401
11.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6961
31.6 MB/sec 		416
1.89 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9585
8.68 MElements/sec 		302
274.3 KElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7864
245.7 Mpixels/sec 		486
15.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 10282
273.2 Mpixels/sec 		568
15.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 15421
1.06 Kfunctions/sec 		829
57.0 functions/sec
Camera 9803
27.2 images/sec 		591
1.64 images/sec
SGEMM 7525
159.1 Gflops 		289
6.11 Gflops
SFFT 8972
22.4 Gflops 		515
1.29 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8445
6.31 Mpairs/sec 		482
360.3 Kpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 8103
1.18 Mpixels/sec 		479
70.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11311
33113.9 FPS 		670
1963.9 FPS
HDR 10176
36.9 Mpixels/sec 		585
2.12 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8859
155.2 Mpixels/sec 		476
8.34 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6440
55.1 Words/sec 		378
3.24 Words/sec
Face Detection 8734
2.55 Msubwindows/sec 		512
149.6 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4656
12.9 GB/sec 		236
671.4 MB/sec
Memory Latency 2728
158.7 ns 		741
583.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4745
25.3 GB/sec 		253
1.35 GB/sec

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