MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) vs iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3615 4780
Multi-Core Score 7142 13902
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C205) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G1408)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-5257U @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
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 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1 Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP121.88Z.0171.B00.1708080033 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0157.B00.1802080917
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3615 4780
AES 2781
2.09 GB/sec 		3213
2.42 GB/sec
LZMA 3301
5.16 MB/sec 		4313
6.74 MB/sec
JPEG 3688
29.7 Mpixels/sec 		4810
38.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3250
45.1 Mpixels/sec 		4447
61.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3598
3.70 MB/sec 		4799
4.93 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3864
2.61 MTE/sec 		5037
3.41 MTE/sec
SQLite 3238
89.8 Krows/sec 		4241
117.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3076
14.0 MB/sec 		4002
18.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4160
3.77 MElements/sec 		5560
5.04 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3140
98.1 Mpixels/sec 		4281
133.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3202
85.1 Mpixels/sec 		4477
119.0 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5881
404.4 functions/sec 		8112
557.8 functions/sec
Camera 3879
10.8 images/sec 		4972
13.8 images/sec
SGEMM 3314
70.0 Gflops 		4995
105.6 Gflops
SFFT 3744
9.33 Gflops 		5481
13.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3576
2.67 Mpairs/sec 		4679
3.49 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3427
500.5 Kpixels/sec 		4300
627.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4551
13322.9 FPS 		5369
15717.8 FPS
HDR 4079
14.8 Mpixels/sec 		5695
20.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3469
60.8 Mpixels/sec 		5039
88.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3203
27.4 Words/sec 		5333
45.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 3710
1.08 Msubwindows/sec 		4734
1.38 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3133
8.68 GB/sec 		4405
12.2 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5325
81.3 ns 		6528
66.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3114
16.6 GB/sec 		3488
18.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 7142 13902
AES 6118
4.61 GB/sec 		12812
9.65 GB/sec
LZMA 7838
12.2 MB/sec 		14466
22.6 MB/sec
JPEG 9622
77.4 Mpixels/sec 		17979
144.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7798
108.1 Mpixels/sec 		14751
204.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 6960
7.15 MB/sec 		16512
17.0 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9344
6.32 MTE/sec 		13438
9.09 MTE/sec
SQLite 6853
190.0 Krows/sec 		14473
401.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6406
29.1 MB/sec 		14049
63.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6268
5.68 MElements/sec 		18899
17.1 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7512
234.7 Mpixels/sec 		15367
480.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7489
199.0 Mpixels/sec 		13707
364.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 14235
978.8 functions/sec 		28795
1.98 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9699
26.9 images/sec 		18667
51.8 images/sec
SGEMM 5716
120.8 Gflops 		10954
231.5 Gflops
SFFT 8124
20.3 Gflops 		20749
51.7 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8160
6.09 Mpairs/sec 		17117
12.8 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7751
1.13 Mpixels/sec 		14716
2.15 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11238
32898.9 FPS 		20051
58699.2 FPS
HDR 9382
34.0 Mpixels/sec 		18465
66.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7854
137.6 Mpixels/sec 		18370
321.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5769
49.4 Words/sec 		11831
101.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 8355
2.44 Msubwindows/sec 		17974
5.25 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3907
10.8 GB/sec 		4608
12.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5131
84.4 ns 		6289
68.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3441
18.4 GB/sec 		4244
22.7 GB/sec

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