MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 2513 2688
Multi-Core Score 9029 4883
Geekbench 4.2.0 Geekbench 4.3.1 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C205) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G4015)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011)
Processor Intel Core i7-2635QM @ 2.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-2557M @ 1.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-94245A3940C91C80 MacBookPro8,2 Apple Inc. Mac-742912EFDBEE19B3 MacBookAir4,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.004D.B00.1708080655 Apple Inc. 130.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011)
Single-Core Score 2513 2688
AES 1974
1.49 GB/sec 		2155
1.62 GB/sec
LZMA 2270
3.55 MB/sec 		2667
4.17 MB/sec
JPEG 2625
21.1 Mpixels/sec 		2892
23.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2428
33.7 Mpixels/sec 		2403
33.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1743
1.79 MB/sec 		1953
2.01 MB/sec
Dijkstra 2941
1.99 MTE/sec 		2980
2.02 MTE/sec
SQLite 1880
52.1 Krows/sec 		2066
57.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 1841
8.36 MB/sec 		2045
9.29 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3077
2.79 MElements/sec 		3305
3.00 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2253
70.4 Mpixels/sec 		2344
73.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2284
60.7 Mpixels/sec 		2395
63.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4018
276.3 functions/sec 		4288
294.9 functions/sec
Camera 2629
7.29 images/sec 		2765
7.67 images/sec
SGEMM 1320
27.9 Gflops 		1422
30.1 Gflops
SFFT 2432
6.06 Gflops 		2885
7.19 Gflops
N-Body Physics 1726
1.29 Mpairs/sec 		2078
1.55 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 1852
270.6 Kpixels/sec 		2118
309.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 2728
7987.2 FPS 		3265
9560.5 FPS
HDR 2376
8.62 Mpixels/sec 		2504
9.08 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2460
43.1 Mpixels/sec 		2783
48.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2799
24.0 Words/sec 		2647
22.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 2325
679.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		2709
791.4 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3067
8.50 GB/sec 		2589
7.17 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5622
77.0 ns 		6225
69.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2177
11.6 GB/sec 		2409
12.9 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011)
Multi-Core Score 9029 4883
AES 7631
5.75 GB/sec 		4276
3.22 GB/sec
LZMA 11809
18.4 MB/sec 		5852
9.14 MB/sec
JPEG 14386
115.8 Mpixels/sec 		6746
54.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 11595
160.8 Mpixels/sec 		5677
78.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 8650
8.89 MB/sec 		4380
4.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13106
8.87 MTE/sec 		7432
5.03 MTE/sec
SQLite 7398
205.1 Krows/sec 		4260
118.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 8459
38.4 MB/sec 		4315
19.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 8128
7.36 MElements/sec 		4755
4.31 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 10359
323.7 Mpixels/sec 		4956
154.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 10059
267.2 Mpixels/sec 		5017
133.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 17321
1.19 Kfunctions/sec 		9293
638.9 functions/sec
Camera 12610
35.0 images/sec 		6256
17.3 images/sec
SGEMM 4732
100.0 Gflops 		2533
53.6 Gflops
SFFT 11047
27.5 Gflops 		5386
13.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8596
6.42 Mpairs/sec 		4138
3.09 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 9747
1.42 Mpixels/sec 		4722
689.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 14997
43901.8 FPS 		7331
21460.4 FPS
HDR 10955
39.7 Mpixels/sec 		5390
19.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10174
178.2 Mpixels/sec 		4815
84.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9359
80.1 Words/sec 		5076
43.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 11542
3.37 Msubwindows/sec 		5566
1.63 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3897
10.8 GB/sec 		3037
8.42 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5947
72.8 ns 		5221
82.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3362
18.0 GB/sec 		2783
14.9 GB/sec

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