MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 2428 5538
Multi-Core Score 5166 17803
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System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G87) macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2657)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-2677M @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.01 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
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 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2 MacBookAir4,1 Apple Inc. Mac-65CE76090165799A iMac17,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA41.88Z.007B.B00.1708072159 Apple Inc. IM171.88Z.0105.B00.1509221819
Memory 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 32.00 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Single-Core Score 2428 5538
AES 2133
1.61 GB/sec 		3606
2.72 GB/sec
LZMA 2680
4.19 MB/sec 		4937
7.71 MB/sec
JPEG 3175
25.5 Mpixels/sec 		5550
44.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2592
36.0 Mpixels/sec 		5231
72.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1987
2.04 MB/sec 		5238
5.38 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2932
1.98 MTE/sec 		5965
4.04 MTE/sec
SQLite 1355
37.6 Krows/sec 		4921
136.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1825
8.29 MB/sec 		4725
21.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 2616
2.37 MElements/sec 		5182
4.70 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 1639
51.2 Mpixels/sec 		4779
149.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 1977
52.5 Mpixels/sec 		5516
146.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 2648
182.1 functions/sec 		6232
428.5 functions/sec
Camera 2723
7.55 images/sec 		5682
15.8 images/sec
SGEMM 1324
28.0 Gflops 		5829
123.2 Gflops
SFFT 2338
5.83 Gflops 		6043
15.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1902
1.42 Mpairs/sec 		5246
3.92 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1649
240.8 Kpixels/sec 		4881
712.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2723
7972.1 FPS 		5866
17174.6 FPS
HDR 2193
7.95 Mpixels/sec 		6308
22.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2355
41.3 Mpixels/sec 		5564
97.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2604
22.3 Words/sec 		6099
52.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 2647
773.4 Ksubwindows/sec 		5227
1.53 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2583
7.16 GB/sec 		6314
17.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5986
72.3 ns 		7057
16.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2276
12.2 GB/sec 		5761
30.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
Multi-Core Score 5166 17803
AES 4489
3.38 GB/sec 		18616
14.0 GB/sec
LZMA 6443
10.1 MB/sec 		21946
34.3 MB/sec
JPEG 6443
51.8 Mpixels/sec 		25961
208.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5632
78.1 Mpixels/sec 		22172
307.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4510
4.64 MB/sec 		20439
21.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7792
5.27 MTE/sec 		24356
16.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 4593
127.4 Krows/sec 		9849
273.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4903
22.3 MB/sec 		19094
86.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6158
5.58 MElements/sec 		14374
13.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5390
168.4 Mpixels/sec 		20408
637.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6317
167.8 Mpixels/sec 		22920
608.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8430
579.6 functions/sec 		12317
846.9 functions/sec
Camera 6396
17.7 images/sec 		25940
71.9 images/sec
SGEMM 2646
55.9 Gflops 		18944
400.4 Gflops
SFFT 5816
14.5 Gflops 		23843
59.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4290
3.20 Mpairs/sec 		22131
16.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4499
657.1 Kpixels/sec 		21553
3.15 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7894
23110.5 FPS 		30201
88410.7 FPS
HDR 5817
21.1 Mpixels/sec 		26626
96.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5530
96.9 Mpixels/sec 		23072
404.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5486
46.9 Words/sec 		17429
149.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 5982
1.75 Msubwindows/sec 		23739
6.93 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3028
8.39 GB/sec 		7561
20.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5363
80.7 ns 		7063
16.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2763
14.8 GB/sec 		6275
33.5 GB/sec

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