MacBook Air (Late 2018) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 3324 5085
Multi-Core Score 7374 23152
Geekbench 4.4.3 Geekbench 4.3.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 20A5354i) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G2208)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 6
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 6
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 6
L3 Cache 4096 KB 12288 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-937A206F2EE63C01 MacBookPro15,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 1554.40.9.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.10358.5.2,0) Apple Inc. 15.16.6703.0.0,0
Memory 8.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 32.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 3324 5085
AES 2441
1.84 GB/sec 		3445
2.60 GB/sec
LZMA 2749
4.29 MB/sec 		4693
7.33 MB/sec
JPEG 3200
25.7 Mpixels/sec 		5363
43.2 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2831
39.3 Mpixels/sec 		4995
69.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3005
3.09 MB/sec 		5153
5.30 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3452
2.34 MTE/sec 		5709
3.86 MTE/sec
SQLite 2884
80.0 Krows/sec 		4408
122.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3414
15.5 MB/sec 		4370
19.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4310
3.91 MElements/sec 		5625
5.10 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2952
92.3 Mpixels/sec 		4700
146.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3188
84.7 Mpixels/sec 		5201
138.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6315
434.2 functions/sec 		8542
587.4 functions/sec
Camera 3722
10.3 images/sec 		5565
15.4 images/sec
SGEMM 2869
60.7 Gflops 		5333
112.7 Gflops
SFFT 2623
6.54 Gflops 		5676
14.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2915
2.18 Mpairs/sec 		5068
3.79 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2936
428.8 Kpixels/sec 		4676
682.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3472
10164.0 FPS 		5773
16901.4 FPS
HDR 4151
15.0 Mpixels/sec 		6301
22.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3977
69.7 Mpixels/sec 		5359
93.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2541
21.7 Words/sec 		5821
49.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 3215
939.0 Ksubwindows/sec 		4723
1.38 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3229
8.95 GB/sec 		4632
12.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4274
101.3 ns 		4619
93.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3473
18.5 GB/sec 		4575
24.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2018)
Multi-Core Score 7374 23152
AES 6085
4.58 GB/sec 		14832
11.2 GB/sec
LZMA 6250
9.76 MB/sec 		26969
42.1 MB/sec
JPEG 7885
63.4 Mpixels/sec 		36539
294.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7978
110.6 Mpixels/sec 		27642
383.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7114
7.31 MB/sec 		27926
28.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 10026
6.78 MTE/sec 		22771
15.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 6770
187.7 Krows/sec 		17227
477.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6737
30.6 MB/sec 		26374
119.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9380
8.50 MElements/sec 		24941
22.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7467
233.3 Mpixels/sec 		30215
944.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 9989
265.4 Mpixels/sec 		27429
728.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 14580
1.00 Kfunctions/sec 		54047
3.72 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9472
26.3 images/sec 		35042
97.2 images/sec
SGEMM 7589
160.4 Gflops 		18568
392.5 Gflops
SFFT 8827
22.0 Gflops 		32509
81.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8169
6.10 Mpairs/sec 		30834
23.0 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7959
1.16 Mpixels/sec 		28226
4.12 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11319
33136.3 FPS 		40316
118020.1 FPS
HDR 9756
35.4 Mpixels/sec 		33681
122.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8576
150.2 Mpixels/sec 		29839
522.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5725
49.0 Words/sec 		16548
141.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 8287
2.42 Msubwindows/sec 		33108
9.67 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4070
11.3 GB/sec 		5992
16.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3511
123.3 ns 		4339
99.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4271
22.8 GB/sec 		5093
27.2 GB/sec

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