MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) vs MacBook Air (Late 2018)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 4499 3954
Multi-Core Score 9236 7788
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.14.3 (Build 18D42)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-7360U @ 2.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 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 4096 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-B4831CEBD52A0C4C MacBookPro14,1 Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 194.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.240.2.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.3133.0.0,0)
Memory 8.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 8.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Single-Core Score 4499 3954
AES 4055
3.05 GB/sec 		2829
2.13 GB/sec
LZMA 4068
6.35 MB/sec 		3721
5.81 MB/sec
JPEG 4575
36.8 Mpixels/sec 		4462
35.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4171
57.9 Mpixels/sec 		4166
57.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4469
4.59 MB/sec 		4184
4.30 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4924
3.33 MTE/sec 		4054
2.74 MTE/sec
SQLite 4040
112.0 Krows/sec 		3700
102.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3993
18.1 MB/sec 		3608
16.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5150
4.67 MElements/sec 		4474
4.05 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4084
127.6 Mpixels/sec 		2908
90.9 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5142
136.6 Mpixels/sec 		4793
127.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7566
520.2 functions/sec 		6958
478.5 functions/sec
Camera 4730
13.1 images/sec 		4603
12.8 images/sec
SGEMM 4699
99.3 Gflops 		4327
91.5 Gflops
SFFT 5015
12.5 Gflops 		4508
11.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4417
3.30 Mpairs/sec 		3631
2.71 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4010
585.7 Kpixels/sec 		3348
488.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5022
14701.5 FPS 		4231
12388.2 FPS
HDR 5390
19.5 Mpixels/sec 		5275
19.1 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4544
79.6 Mpixels/sec 		4604
80.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4642
39.7 Words/sec 		3874
33.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 4376
1.28 Msubwindows/sec 		4374
1.28 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4432
12.3 GB/sec 		3496
9.69 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4197
103.2 ns 		2852
151.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3413
18.2 GB/sec 		3527
18.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Multi-Core Score 9236 7788
AES 9606
7.23 GB/sec 		8016
6.04 GB/sec
LZMA 9434
14.7 MB/sec 		7772
12.1 MB/sec
JPEG 10944
88.1 Mpixels/sec 		9434
75.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 9935
137.8 Mpixels/sec 		8573
118.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 8511
8.75 MB/sec 		7490
7.70 MB/sec
Dijkstra 13998
9.47 MTE/sec 		10775
7.29 MTE/sec
SQLite 8523
236.3 Krows/sec 		7307
202.6 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 8350
37.9 MB/sec 		7425
33.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 12000
10.9 MElements/sec 		9630
8.73 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 8746
273.3 Mpixels/sec 		7817
244.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 11470
304.7 Mpixels/sec 		10243
272.1 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 16535
1.14 Kfunctions/sec 		15308
1.05 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 11292
31.3 images/sec 		9735
27.0 images/sec
SGEMM 8550
180.7 Gflops 		7182
151.8 Gflops
SFFT 10285
25.6 Gflops 		8841
22.0 Gflops
N-Body Physics 9904
7.40 Mpairs/sec 		8289
6.19 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 9203
1.34 Mpixels/sec 		8090
1.18 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 13130
38438.8 FPS 		11289
33047.1 FPS
HDR 11923
43.2 Mpixels/sec 		10260
37.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10402
182.2 Mpixels/sec 		8151
142.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9969
85.3 Words/sec 		6737
57.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 9960
2.91 Msubwindows/sec 		8721
2.55 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5700
15.8 GB/sec 		4321
12.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4038
107.2 ns 		2566
168.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4092
21.9 GB/sec 		4639
24.8 GB/sec

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