MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 2731 5465
Multi-Core Score 5124 17670
Geekbench 4.2.2 Pro Geekbench 4.1.1 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.13.4 (Build 17E199) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-3317U @ 1.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
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 3072 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-66F35F19FE2A0D05 MacBookAir5,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA51.88Z.00F7.B00.1802021100 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 24.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 2731 5465
AES 2202
1.66 GB/sec 		3739
2.82 GB/sec
LZMA 2689
4.20 MB/sec 		5159
8.06 MB/sec
JPEG 2849
22.9 Mpixels/sec 		5771
46.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2525
35.0 Mpixels/sec 		5246
72.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 1994
2.05 MB/sec 		5620
5.78 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3071
2.08 MTE/sec 		6273
4.24 MTE/sec
SQLite 2065
57.3 Krows/sec 		5094
141.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2069
9.40 MB/sec 		4948
22.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3441
3.12 MElements/sec 		6665
6.04 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2383
74.5 Mpixels/sec 		5093
159.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2443
64.9 Mpixels/sec 		5820
154.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4306
296.1 functions/sec 		9625
661.8 functions/sec
Camera 2843
7.89 images/sec 		6089
16.9 images/sec
SGEMM 1483
31.4 Gflops 		6008
127.0 Gflops
SFFT 2850
7.11 Gflops 		6254
15.6 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2392
1.79 Mpairs/sec 		5487
4.10 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2309
337.3 Kpixels/sec 		5144
751.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3265
9559.8 FPS 		6367
18641.2 FPS
HDR 2689
9.75 Mpixels/sec 		6907
25.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2662
46.6 Mpixels/sec 		5986
104.9 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 2599
22.2 Words/sec 		6479
55.4 Words/sec
Face Detection 2604
760.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		5489
1.60 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3090
8.56 GB/sec 		3827
10.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5265
82.2 ns 		6507
66.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2398
12.8 GB/sec 		3075
16.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 5124 17670
AES 4152
3.13 GB/sec 		9133
6.88 GB/sec
LZMA 6069
9.48 MB/sec 		22972
35.9 MB/sec
JPEG 6907
55.6 Mpixels/sec 		27032
217.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 5971
82.8 Mpixels/sec 		18094
250.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4463
4.59 MB/sec 		22054
22.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7154
4.84 MTE/sec 		15467
10.5 MTE/sec
SQLite 4301
119.2 Krows/sec 		17896
496.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4437
20.1 MB/sec 		20668
93.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5462
4.95 MElements/sec 		20514
18.6 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4979
155.6 Mpixels/sec 		21553
673.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5217
138.6 Mpixels/sec 		18639
495.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 9441
649.1 functions/sec 		43815
3.01 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 6569
18.2 images/sec 		27600
76.5 images/sec
SGEMM 2669
56.4 Gflops 		12005
253.8 Gflops
SFFT 5563
13.9 Gflops 		26037
64.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5122
3.83 Mpairs/sec 		24654
18.4 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5045
736.8 Kpixels/sec 		23361
3.41 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7696
22531.2 FPS 		32879
96250.3 FPS
HDR 5936
21.5 Mpixels/sec 		23665
85.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5161
90.4 Mpixels/sec 		24701
432.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5357
45.8 Words/sec 		10511
89.9 Words/sec
Face Detection 5415
1.58 Msubwindows/sec 		25470
7.44 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3641
10.1 GB/sec 		3813
10.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5061
85.5 ns 		6271
69.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3135
16.7 GB/sec 		2958
15.8 GB/sec

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