iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) vs MacBook Air (2022)

Geekbench Scores

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (2022)
Single-Core Score 4609 6486
Multi-Core Score 13118 26195
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (2022)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G2136) macOS 14.6.1 (Build 23G93)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) Mac14,2
Processor Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		VirtualApple @ 2.50GHz @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 0
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 128 KB x 8
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 128 KB x 8
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 8192 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-DB15BD556843C820 iMac17,1 Mac14,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 170.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (2022)
Single-Core Score 4609 6486
AES 3079
2.32 GB/sec 		5948
4.48 GB/sec
LZMA 4097
6.40 MB/sec 		5333
8.33 MB/sec
JPEG 4471
36.0 Mpixels/sec 		6068
48.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4355
60.4 Mpixels/sec 		5941
82.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4514
4.64 MB/sec 		6076
6.25 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4843
3.28 MTE/sec 		9467
6.41 MTE/sec
SQLite 3967
110.0 Krows/sec 		5348
148.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3774
17.1 MB/sec 		6022
27.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5233
4.74 MElements/sec 		8272
7.50 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4031
126.0 Mpixels/sec 		5156
161.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4608
122.4 Mpixels/sec 		9090
241.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7503
515.9 functions/sec 		13456
925.2 functions/sec
Camera 4870
13.5 images/sec 		6422
17.8 images/sec
SGEMM 4792
101.3 Gflops 		2311
48.9 Gflops
SFFT 5066
12.6 Gflops 		4966
12.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4396
3.28 Mpairs/sec 		7104
5.31 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4003
584.6 Kpixels/sec 		5480
800.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5068
14837.1 FPS 		6987
20453.7 FPS
HDR 5479
19.9 Mpixels/sec 		7492
27.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4780
83.7 Mpixels/sec 		8087
141.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5009
42.9 Words/sec 		7021
60.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 4392
1.28 Msubwindows/sec 		7641
2.23 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4627
12.8 GB/sec 		7023
19.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5780
74.9 ns 		4260
101.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4049
21.6 GB/sec 		8683
46.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (2022)
Multi-Core Score 13118 26195
AES 12298
9.26 GB/sec 		29089
21.9 GB/sec
LZMA 13187
20.6 MB/sec 		28118
43.9 MB/sec
JPEG 16053
129.2 Mpixels/sec 		31879
256.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14021
194.4 Mpixels/sec 		30235
419.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 16268
16.7 MB/sec 		27711
28.5 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13096
8.86 MTE/sec 		33337
22.6 MTE/sec
SQLite 13265
367.8 Krows/sec 		26591
737.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 13099
59.5 MB/sec 		30718
139.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 17941
16.3 MElements/sec 		44305
40.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14140
441.8 Mpixels/sec 		24051
751.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 13842
367.8 Mpixels/sec 		44974
1.19 Gpixels/sec
LLVM 26485
1.82 Kfunctions/sec 		67631
4.65 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 17246
47.8 images/sec 		33581
93.1 images/sec
SGEMM 12075
255.2 Gflops 		10397
219.8 Gflops
SFFT 18876
47.1 Gflops 		23127
57.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 15805
11.8 Mpairs/sec 		35162
26.3 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 13567
1.98 Mpixels/sec 		18712
2.73 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 18438
53977.0 FPS 		34089
99790.5 FPS
HDR 17423
63.2 Mpixels/sec 		37589
136.3 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 17080
299.2 Mpixels/sec 		34982
612.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 11142
95.3 Words/sec 		31404
268.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 16571
4.84 Msubwindows/sec 		34221
10.00 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5001
13.9 GB/sec 		9792
27.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5702
75.9 ns 		4357
99.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3772
20.1 GB/sec 		8575
45.8 GB/sec

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