MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 2940 3364
Multi-Core Score 5429 6482
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System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.12.4 (Build 16E195) Mac OS X 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-4250U @ 1.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5287U @ 2.90 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-35C1E88140C3E6CF MacBookAir6,1 Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA61.88Z.0099.B20.1509081314 Apple Inc. MBP121.88Z.0167.B17.1606231721
Memory 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 2940 3364
AES 2423
1.82 GB/sec 		2800
2.11 GB/sec
LZMA 2866
4.48 MB/sec 		2882
4.50 MB/sec
JPEG 3111
25.0 Mpixels/sec 		3719
29.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2810
39.0 Mpixels/sec 		3321
46.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2960
3.04 MB/sec 		3266
3.36 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3129
2.12 MTE/sec 		3481
2.36 MTE/sec
SQLite 2679
74.3 Krows/sec 		3216
89.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2675
12.1 MB/sec 		3036
13.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3534
3.20 MElements/sec 		2729
2.47 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2680
83.7 Mpixels/sec 		3332
104.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2658
70.6 Mpixels/sec 		3094
82.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5235
360.0 functions/sec 		3737
257.0 functions/sec
Camera 3141
8.71 images/sec 		3835
10.6 images/sec
SGEMM 2442
51.6 Gflops 		2899
61.3 Gflops
SFFT 2850
7.10 Gflops 		3944
9.83 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2669
1.99 Mpairs/sec 		3483
2.60 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2313
337.8 Kpixels/sec 		3331
486.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3125
9149.1 FPS 		4295
12574.3 FPS
HDR 2848
10.3 Mpixels/sec 		3970
14.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2982
52.2 Mpixels/sec 		3309
58.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2717
23.3 Words/sec 		2888
24.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 2964
865.9 Ksubwindows/sec 		3703
1.08 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2667
7.39 GB/sec 		2900
8.03 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3894
111.2 ns 		5121
11.8 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 2769
14.8 GB/sec 		2808
15.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 5429 6482
AES 4697
3.54 GB/sec 		5479
4.13 GB/sec
LZMA 5940
9.28 MB/sec 		7075
11.1 MB/sec
JPEG 7027
56.5 Mpixels/sec 		9390
75.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6137
85.1 Mpixels/sec 		7804
108.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5135
5.28 MB/sec 		6711
6.90 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7693
5.21 MTE/sec 		8158
5.52 MTE/sec
SQLite 4955
137.4 Krows/sec 		6596
182.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4886
22.2 MB/sec 		6358
28.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5561
5.04 MElements/sec 		3574
3.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5524
172.6 Mpixels/sec 		7638
238.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5557
147.6 Mpixels/sec 		7048
187.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10483
720.8 functions/sec 		7576
520.9 functions/sec
Camera 6862
19.0 images/sec 		9232
25.6 images/sec
SGEMM 4605
97.4 Gflops 		5066
107.1 Gflops
SFFT 5889
14.7 Gflops 		8139
20.3 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5347
3.99 Mpairs/sec 		7577
5.66 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5351
781.4 Kpixels/sec 		7586
1.11 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7876
23056.9 FPS 		11276
33009.4 FPS
HDR 6242
22.6 Mpixels/sec 		9436
34.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5796
101.5 Mpixels/sec 		7477
131.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5195
44.5 Words/sec 		5152
44.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 5992
1.75 Msubwindows/sec 		8406
2.46 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3417
9.47 GB/sec 		3406
9.44 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3922
110.4 ns 		4984
11.5 Moperations/sec
Memory Bandwidth 3144
16.8 GB/sec 		3087
16.5 GB/sec

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