MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) vs iMac (Late 2009)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 2992 2033
Multi-Core Score 5804 3459
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System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Operating System macOS 10.13.2 (Build 17C88) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 @ 3.06 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
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 3072 KB
L3 Cache 3072 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-9F18E312C5C2BF0B MacBookAir7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F2268CC8
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0171.B00.1708072210 Apple Inc. IM101.88Z.00D0.B00.1802021905
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 2992 2033
AES 2613
1.97 GB/sec 		126
97.3 MB/sec
LZMA 2807
4.39 MB/sec 		2982
4.66 MB/sec
JPEG 3325
26.8 Mpixels/sec 		2930
23.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3044
42.2 Mpixels/sec 		2288
31.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3121
3.21 MB/sec 		2220
2.28 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3587
2.43 MTE/sec 		2483
1.68 MTE/sec
SQLite 2532
70.2 Krows/sec 		1932
53.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2382
10.8 MB/sec 		2040
9.26 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3065
2.78 MElements/sec 		2815
2.55 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2827
88.3 Mpixels/sec 		2457
76.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2824
75.0 Mpixels/sec 		1945
51.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5101
350.7 functions/sec 		4407
303.0 functions/sec
Camera 3325
9.22 images/sec 		2589
7.18 images/sec
SGEMM 2841
60.1 Gflops 		794
16.8 Gflops
SFFT 2879
7.18 Gflops 		1133
2.83 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2921
2.18 Mpairs/sec 		1341
1.00 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2420
353.5 Kpixels/sec 		1754
256.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3611
10572.3 FPS 		2860
8374.7 FPS
HDR 3193
11.6 Mpixels/sec 		2457
8.91 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2516
44.1 Mpixels/sec 		1322
23.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2102
18.0 Words/sec 		2554
21.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 2819
823.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		2604
760.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2428
6.73 GB/sec 		1277
3.54 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4568
94.8 ns 		5130
84.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2838
15.2 GB/sec 		1012
5.41 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (Late 2009)
Multi-Core Score 5804 3459
AES 4831
3.64 GB/sec 		253
195.6 MB/sec
LZMA 5998
9.37 MB/sec 		5370
8.39 MB/sec
JPEG 6910
55.6 Mpixels/sec 		5794
46.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6643
92.1 Mpixels/sec 		4086
56.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5673
5.83 MB/sec 		4382
4.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7950
5.38 MTE/sec 		3888
2.63 MTE/sec
SQLite 4504
124.9 Krows/sec 		3818
105.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5100
23.2 MB/sec 		3945
17.9 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5833
5.29 MElements/sec 		5553
5.03 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6118
191.2 Mpixels/sec 		4909
153.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6281
166.9 Mpixels/sec 		2985
79.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 11245
773.2 functions/sec 		8190
563.2 functions/sec
Camera 7769
21.5 images/sec 		5149
14.3 images/sec
SGEMM 5091
107.6 Gflops 		1570
33.2 Gflops
SFFT 6697
16.7 Gflops 		2263
5.64 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6600
4.93 Mpairs/sec 		2689
2.01 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6311
921.7 Kpixels/sec 		3441
502.6 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 8540
25001.5 FPS 		5559
16276.0 FPS
HDR 7567
27.4 Mpixels/sec 		4532
16.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5648
98.9 Mpixels/sec 		2548
44.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4806
41.1 Words/sec 		3351
28.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 6757
1.97 Msubwindows/sec 		5169
1.51 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3574
9.90 GB/sec 		1341
3.72 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4373
99.0 ns 		5098
84.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3198
17.1 GB/sec 		960
5.13 GB/sec

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