MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) vs MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 2971 2371
Multi-Core Score 5679 4239
Geekbench 4.2.0 Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C88) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G66)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-2467M @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
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-9F18E312C5C2BF0B MacBookAir7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2 MacBookAir4,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0171.B00.1708072210 Apple Inc. MBA41.88Z.0080.B00.1804111222
Memory 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 2971 2371
AES 2501
1.88 GB/sec 		1870
1.41 GB/sec
LZMA 2333
3.65 MB/sec 		2337
3.65 MB/sec
JPEG 3044
24.5 Mpixels/sec 		2473
19.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2856
39.6 Mpixels/sec 		2227
30.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2770
2.85 MB/sec 		1613
1.66 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3049
2.06 MTE/sec 		2831
1.92 MTE/sec
SQLite 2440
67.7 Krows/sec 		1819
50.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2457
11.2 MB/sec 		1840
8.36 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3162
2.86 MElements/sec 		2887
2.62 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2744
85.7 Mpixels/sec 		2096
65.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2727
72.5 Mpixels/sec 		2074
55.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4868
334.7 functions/sec 		3720
255.8 functions/sec
Camera 3229
8.96 images/sec 		2420
6.71 images/sec
SGEMM 2768
58.5 Gflops 		1305
27.6 Gflops
SFFT 3163
7.89 Gflops 		1992
4.97 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2874
2.15 Mpairs/sec 		1746
1.30 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2590
378.2 Kpixels/sec 		1854
270.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3560
10421.4 FPS 		2742
8029.0 FPS
HDR 3256
11.8 Mpixels/sec 		2169
7.86 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2660
46.6 Mpixels/sec 		2387
41.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2642
22.6 Words/sec 		2269
19.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 2842
830.3 Ksubwindows/sec 		2307
673.9 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2769
7.67 GB/sec 		2457
6.81 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4791
90.4 ns 		6110
70.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2706
14.5 GB/sec 		2067
11.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011)
Multi-Core Score 5679 4239
AES 4803
3.62 GB/sec 		3480
2.62 GB/sec
LZMA 6024
9.41 MB/sec 		4974
7.77 MB/sec
JPEG 7535
60.6 Mpixels/sec 		5676
45.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6288
87.2 Mpixels/sec 		4830
67.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5383
5.53 MB/sec 		3599
3.70 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7907
5.35 MTE/sec 		6640
4.49 MTE/sec
SQLite 5390
149.4 Krows/sec 		3552
98.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5008
22.7 MB/sec 		3644
16.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5134
4.65 MElements/sec 		4259
3.86 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5655
176.7 Mpixels/sec 		4142
129.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6037
160.4 Mpixels/sec 		4299
114.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11037
758.9 functions/sec 		7705
529.8 functions/sec
Camera 7592
21.1 images/sec 		5242
14.5 images/sec
SGEMM 3803
80.4 Gflops 		2228
47.1 Gflops
SFFT 6072
15.1 Gflops 		4450
11.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5995
4.48 Mpairs/sec 		3445
2.57 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6095
890.0 Kpixels/sec 		3898
569.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 8938
26166.2 FPS 		6115
17903.2 FPS
HDR 7479
27.1 Mpixels/sec 		4533
16.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6140
107.6 Mpixels/sec 		4191
73.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5075
43.4 Words/sec 		4599
39.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 6631
1.94 Msubwindows/sec 		4666
1.36 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3355
9.30 GB/sec 		2975
8.24 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4685
92.4 ns 		5201
83.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3033
16.2 GB/sec 		2770
14.8 GB/sec

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