MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) vs MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Single-Core Score 3651 4312
Multi-Core Score 7161 15079
Geekbench 4.2.0 Geekbench 4.4.1 Pro

System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Operating System macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C205) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G14019)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Processor Intel Core i7-5650U @ 2.20 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 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-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2 Apple Inc. Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663 MacBookPro11,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0171.B00.1708072210 Apple Inc. 162.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Single-Core Score 3651 4312
AES 3049
2.30 GB/sec 		3641
2.74 GB/sec
LZMA 3156
4.93 MB/sec 		4191
6.55 MB/sec
JPEG 3633
29.2 Mpixels/sec 		4465
35.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3275
45.4 Mpixels/sec 		4015
55.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3331
3.42 MB/sec 		4206
4.32 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4051
2.74 MTE/sec 		4820
3.26 MTE/sec
SQLite 3297
91.4 Krows/sec 		3839
106.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3077
14.0 MB/sec 		3678
16.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4096
3.71 MElements/sec 		5018
4.55 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3506
109.6 Mpixels/sec 		3986
124.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3353
89.1 Mpixels/sec 		4183
111.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 6077
417.8 functions/sec 		7467
513.4 functions/sec
Camera 4047
11.2 images/sec 		4534
12.6 images/sec
SGEMM 3493
73.9 Gflops 		3563
75.3 Gflops
SFFT 4055
10.1 Gflops 		4011
10.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3625
2.71 Mpairs/sec 		3760
2.81 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3512
513.0 Kpixels/sec 		3310
483.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4591
13439.6 FPS 		4465
13072.1 FPS
HDR 4085
14.8 Mpixels/sec 		4115
14.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3686
64.6 Mpixels/sec 		4224
74.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3684
31.5 Words/sec 		4458
38.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3833
1.12 Msubwindows/sec 		4047
1.18 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3084
8.55 GB/sec 		3871
10.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4783
90.5 ns 		5580
77.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2862
15.3 GB/sec 		4695
25.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2014)
Multi-Core Score 7161 15079
AES 6046
4.55 GB/sec 		12035
9.06 GB/sec
LZMA 7889
12.3 MB/sec 		17444
27.2 MB/sec
JPEG 9337
75.1 Mpixels/sec 		21084
169.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7940
110.1 Mpixels/sec 		16916
234.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6871
7.06 MB/sec 		15605
16.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9486
6.42 MTE/sec 		26346
17.8 MTE/sec
SQLite 6509
180.5 Krows/sec 		12625
350.0 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6301
28.6 MB/sec 		14483
65.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8304
7.52 MElements/sec 		19005
17.2 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7525
235.1 Mpixels/sec 		16623
519.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7486
198.9 Mpixels/sec 		16806
446.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 13971
960.6 functions/sec 		30816
2.12 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9431
26.2 images/sec 		20053
55.6 images/sec
SGEMM 6033
127.5 Gflops 		13591
287.3 Gflops
SFFT 8214
20.5 Gflops 		17684
44.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7897
5.90 Mpairs/sec 		15638
11.7 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7665
1.12 Mpixels/sec 		14931
2.18 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11233
32884.0 FPS 		22340
65397.8 FPS
HDR 9457
34.3 Mpixels/sec 		18534
67.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7787
136.4 Mpixels/sec 		16806
294.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6236
53.4 Words/sec 		18051
154.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 8367
2.44 Msubwindows/sec 		17871
5.22 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3762
10.4 GB/sec 		5291
14.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4767
90.8 ns 		5704
75.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3138
16.8 GB/sec 		4800
25.6 GB/sec

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