MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4905 2452
Multi-Core Score 10442 4963
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.15.1 (Build 19B88) Mac OS X 10.13 (Build 17A264c)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-7567U @ 3.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-3427U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 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 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-CAD6701F7CEA0921 MacBookPro14,2 Apple Inc. Mac-2E6FAB96566FE58C MacBookAir5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 202.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBA51.88Z.00EF.B1B.1705011412
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 4905 2452
AES 2736
2.06 GB/sec 		1753
1.32 GB/sec
LZMA 4328
6.76 MB/sec 		2014
3.15 MB/sec
JPEG 5052
40.7 Mpixels/sec 		2090
16.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4701
65.2 Mpixels/sec 		2257
31.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4899
5.04 MB/sec 		1497
1.54 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5436
3.68 MTE/sec 		2881
1.95 MTE/sec
SQLite 4429
122.8 Krows/sec 		1426
39.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4646
21.1 MB/sec 		1994
9.05 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5882
5.33 MElements/sec 		2578
2.34 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4610
144.1 Mpixels/sec 		2169
67.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6070
161.3 Mpixels/sec 		2335
62.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8221
565.3 functions/sec 		2556
175.8 functions/sec
Camera 5407
15.0 images/sec 		2628
7.29 images/sec
SGEMM 5191
109.7 Gflops 		1278
27.0 Gflops
SFFT 5495
13.7 Gflops 		2691
6.71 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4893
3.65 Mpairs/sec 		2445
1.83 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4492
656.1 Kpixels/sec 		2122
310.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5624
16464.5 FPS 		2969
8692.1 FPS
HDR 5999
21.7 Mpixels/sec 		2684
9.73 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5411
94.8 Mpixels/sec 		2623
46.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5064
43.3 Words/sec 		2629
22.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 4906
1.43 Msubwindows/sec 		2436
711.7 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4398
12.2 GB/sec 		2956
8.19 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4231
102.3 ns 		5309
12.3 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4191
22.4 GB/sec 		2518
13.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 10442 4963
AES 10749
8.10 GB/sec 		4539
3.42 GB/sec
LZMA 10662
16.7 MB/sec 		5828
9.10 MB/sec
JPEG 12253
98.6 Mpixels/sec 		7297
58.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 11129
154.3 Mpixels/sec 		6192
85.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 9827
10.1 MB/sec 		4398
4.52 MB/sec
Dijkstra 15883
10.7 MTE/sec 		7897
5.34 MTE/sec
SQLite 9524
264.1 Krows/sec 		3445
95.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 9674
43.9 MB/sec 		4419
20.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12821
11.6 MElements/sec 		3664
3.32 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 10159
317.4 Mpixels/sec 		4979
155.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13879
368.7 Mpixels/sec 		5252
139.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 20047
1.38 Kfunctions/sec 		6210
427.0 functions/sec
Camera 12482
34.6 images/sec 		6560
18.2 images/sec
SGEMM 9060
191.5 Gflops 		2868
60.6 Gflops
SFFT 11107
27.7 Gflops 		5388
13.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 10974
8.20 Mpairs/sec 		4549
3.40 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 10778
1.57 Mpixels/sec 		5447
795.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 14708
43055.5 FPS 		7560
22133.6 FPS
HDR 13238
48.0 Mpixels/sec 		5913
21.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10292
180.3 Mpixels/sec 		5218
91.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11015
94.2 Words/sec 		5790
49.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 11324
3.31 Msubwindows/sec 		5621
1.64 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 6662
18.5 GB/sec 		3451
9.56 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5271
82.1 ns 		5699
13.2 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 4640
24.8 GB/sec 		2830
15.1 GB/sec

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