MacBook Air (Late 2018) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 4065 4495
Multi-Core Score 7469 17303
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System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2018)
Operating System macOS 14.1.2 (Build 23B92) macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E227)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 10
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-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-827FB448E656EC26 MacBookPro15,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 2020.41.1.0.0 (iBridge: 21.16.1069.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 220.250.366.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.4507.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2018)
Single-Core Score 4065 4495
AES 2566
1.93 GB/sec 		3192
2.40 GB/sec
LZMA 3695
5.77 MB/sec 		4339
6.78 MB/sec
JPEG 4195
33.8 Mpixels/sec 		4881
39.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3788
52.5 Mpixels/sec 		4507
62.5 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4344
4.46 MB/sec 		4748
4.88 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3812
2.58 MTE/sec 		4673
3.16 MTE/sec
SQLite 3715
103.0 Krows/sec 		4043
112.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3525
16.0 MB/sec 		4008
18.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5873
5.32 MElements/sec 		4790
4.34 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4042
126.3 Mpixels/sec 		3932
122.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5519
146.6 Mpixels/sec 		4921
130.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7459
512.9 functions/sec 		6514
447.9 functions/sec
Camera 4562
12.7 images/sec 		4349
12.1 images/sec
SGEMM 4579
96.8 Gflops 		3746
79.2 Gflops
SFFT 4855
12.1 Gflops 		4060
10.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4367
3.26 Mpairs/sec 		4156
3.10 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3855
562.9 Kpixels/sec 		3758
548.8 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4996
14627.9 FPS 		4768
13958.9 FPS
HDR 4785
17.3 Mpixels/sec 		5471
19.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4580
80.2 Mpixels/sec 		5079
89.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3574
30.6 Words/sec 		4713
40.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 4403
1.29 Msubwindows/sec 		4257
1.24 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3348
9.28 GB/sec 		4839
13.4 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2748
157.5 ns 		4674
92.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3221
17.2 GB/sec 		4617
24.7 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2018)
Multi-Core Score 7469 17303
AES 5679
4.28 GB/sec 		14780
11.1 GB/sec
LZMA 7560
11.8 MB/sec 		18657
29.1 MB/sec
JPEG 9390
75.6 Mpixels/sec 		22339
179.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7871
109.2 Mpixels/sec 		19299
267.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7638
7.85 MB/sec 		17714
18.2 MB/sec
Dijkstra 10163
6.88 MTE/sec 		27260
18.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 6974
193.4 Krows/sec 		17403
482.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6626
30.1 MB/sec 		16985
77.1 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 10711
9.70 MElements/sec 		19859
18.0 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7710
240.9 Mpixels/sec 		18528
578.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 10341
274.7 Mpixels/sec 		24358
647.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 15089
1.04 Kfunctions/sec 		35751
2.46 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9268
25.7 images/sec 		21766
60.4 images/sec
SGEMM 6983
147.6 Gflops 		17280
365.3 Gflops
SFFT 8446
21.1 Gflops 		21010
52.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8410
6.28 Mpairs/sec 		19769
14.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7490
1.09 Mpixels/sec 		18989
2.77 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10943
32035.6 FPS 		26976
78968.7 FPS
HDR 8419
30.5 Mpixels/sec 		23758
86.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7930
138.9 Mpixels/sec 		20761
363.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6094
52.1 Words/sec 		16872
144.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 8700
2.54 Msubwindows/sec 		20735
6.06 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4561
12.6 GB/sec 		5220
14.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2717
159.3 ns 		3801
113.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4643
24.8 GB/sec 		4629
24.7 GB/sec

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