MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3000 3724
Multi-Core Score 5386 7124
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System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G1012) macOS 10.12.5 (Build 16F73)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-4260U @ 1.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5257U @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1 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 3072 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7DF21CB3ED6977E5 MacBookAir6,2 Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 429.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. MBP121.88Z.0167.B24.1702161608
Memory 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3000 3724
AES 2638
1.99 GB/sec 		2982
2.25 GB/sec
LZMA 2807
4.39 MB/sec 		3327
5.20 MB/sec
JPEG 3203
25.8 Mpixels/sec 		3746
30.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2853
39.6 Mpixels/sec 		3498
48.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2806
2.88 MB/sec 		3477
3.57 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3077
2.08 MTE/sec 		3855
2.61 MTE/sec
SQLite 2723
75.5 Krows/sec 		3209
89.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2929
13.3 MB/sec 		3130
14.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3584
3.25 MElements/sec 		4087
3.70 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2805
87.6 Mpixels/sec 		3348
104.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3212
85.4 Mpixels/sec 		3292
87.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5364
368.8 functions/sec 		6099
419.4 functions/sec
Camera 2821
7.82 images/sec 		3837
10.6 images/sec
SGEMM 2567
54.3 Gflops 		3371
71.3 Gflops
SFFT 3036
7.57 Gflops 		4193
10.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2769
2.07 Mpairs/sec 		3545
2.65 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2377
347.1 Kpixels/sec 		3400
496.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3008
8805.8 FPS 		4344
12718.3 FPS
HDR 3049
11.1 Mpixels/sec 		4045
14.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3123
54.7 Mpixels/sec 		3587
62.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2620
22.4 Words/sec 		3409
29.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3046
889.8 Ksubwindows/sec 		3694
1.08 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2605
7.22 GB/sec 		3449
9.56 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3909
110.7 ns 		5480
79.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2828
15.1 GB/sec 		3442
18.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 5386 7124
AES 4871
3.67 GB/sec 		6066
4.57 GB/sec
LZMA 6161
9.62 MB/sec 		7742
12.1 MB/sec
JPEG 7352
59.2 Mpixels/sec 		9282
74.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6141
85.2 Mpixels/sec 		7975
110.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5170
5.31 MB/sec 		6913
7.10 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7797
5.28 MTE/sec 		8900
6.02 MTE/sec
SQLite 5209
144.4 Krows/sec 		6620
183.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5268
23.9 MB/sec 		6624
30.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5272
4.78 MElements/sec 		6323
5.73 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5889
184.0 Mpixels/sec 		7306
228.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6737
179.0 Mpixels/sec 		7408
196.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10785
741.6 functions/sec 		13536
930.7 functions/sec
Camera 6241
17.3 images/sec 		9439
26.2 images/sec
SGEMM 4612
97.5 Gflops 		5755
121.7 Gflops
SFFT 6292
15.7 Gflops 		7958
19.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4198
3.14 Mpairs/sec 		7963
5.95 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5243
765.6 Kpixels/sec 		7695
1.12 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 6268
18349.4 FPS 		10604
31043.2 FPS
HDR 6190
22.4 Mpixels/sec 		9335
33.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5018
87.9 Mpixels/sec 		7735
135.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4850
41.5 Words/sec 		6031
51.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 5826
1.70 Msubwindows/sec 		8465
2.47 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3381
9.37 GB/sec 		4165
11.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3851
112.4 ns 		5348
80.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3056
16.3 GB/sec 		3814
20.4 GB/sec

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