MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3342 4435
Multi-Core Score 6446 14825
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System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H524) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-3667U @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4980HQ @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1
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 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-2E6FAB96566FE58C MacBookAir5,2 Apple Inc. Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5 MacBookPro11,4
BIOS Apple Inc. 429.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 187.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Single-Core Score 3342 4435
AES 2702
2.03 GB/sec 		3734
2.81 GB/sec
LZMA 3486
5.45 MB/sec 		3872
6.05 MB/sec
JPEG 3585
28.9 Mpixels/sec 		4532
36.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3222
44.7 Mpixels/sec 		4174
57.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2300
2.36 MB/sec 		4300
4.42 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3812
2.58 MTE/sec 		4754
3.22 MTE/sec
SQLite 2614
72.5 Krows/sec 		3952
109.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2736
12.4 MB/sec 		3965
18.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4016
3.64 MElements/sec 		5115
4.64 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2799
87.5 Mpixels/sec 		4089
127.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3669
97.5 Mpixels/sec 		5342
141.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4969
341.6 functions/sec 		7511
516.4 functions/sec
Camera 3600
9.98 images/sec 		4725
13.1 images/sec
SGEMM 1857
39.3 Gflops 		3811
80.6 Gflops
SFFT 3549
8.85 Gflops 		4410
11.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2951
2.20 Mpairs/sec 		3907
2.92 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2782
406.3 Kpixels/sec 		3544
517.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4026
11787.7 FPS 		4824
14123.5 FPS
HDR 3367
12.2 Mpixels/sec 		4376
15.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3406
59.7 Mpixels/sec 		4451
78.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3543
30.3 Words/sec 		4451
38.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3223
941.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		4363
1.27 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3569
9.89 GB/sec 		3628
10.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5698
76.0 ns 		5123
84.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2812
15.0 GB/sec 		5007
26.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015)
Multi-Core Score 6446 14825
AES 5260
3.96 GB/sec 		11544
8.69 GB/sec
LZMA 7568
11.8 MB/sec 		17850
27.9 MB/sec
JPEG 8687
69.9 Mpixels/sec 		21507
173.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7391
102.5 Mpixels/sec 		17148
237.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5373
5.52 MB/sec 		15335
15.8 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9153
6.19 MTE/sec 		26809
18.1 MTE/sec
SQLite 5654
156.8 Krows/sec 		13791
382.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5985
27.2 MB/sec 		15040
68.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8145
7.38 MElements/sec 		18828
17.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6347
198.3 Mpixels/sec 		17043
532.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7833
208.1 Mpixels/sec 		20147
535.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11562
795.0 functions/sec 		28366
1.95 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 8315
23.1 images/sec 		18554
51.4 images/sec
SGEMM 3366
71.2 Gflops 		12534
264.9 Gflops
SFFT 6915
17.2 Gflops 		16700
41.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6451
4.82 Mpairs/sec 		15452
11.5 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6312
921.8 Kpixels/sec 		14148
2.07 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9580
28046.5 FPS 		19711
57702.3 FPS
HDR 7457
27.0 Mpixels/sec 		17869
64.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6651
116.5 Mpixels/sec 		16129
282.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6639
56.8 Words/sec 		17804
152.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 7095
2.07 Msubwindows/sec 		16859
4.92 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4112
11.4 GB/sec 		4880
13.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5631
76.9 ns 		4886
88.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3373
18.0 GB/sec 		4275
22.8 GB/sec

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