MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3391 4022
Multi-Core Score 6221 7970
Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 21G320) macOS 10.16 (Build 20G95)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-5557U @ 3.10 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4
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 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2 Apple Inc. Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 MacBookPro12,1
BIOS Apple Inc. 476.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 427.140.8.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 16.00 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 3391 4022
AES 2707
2.04 GB/sec 		3374
2.54 GB/sec
LZMA 3036
4.74 MB/sec 		2789
4.36 MB/sec
JPEG 3374
27.2 Mpixels/sec 		4034
32.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3061
42.4 Mpixels/sec 		3852
53.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3261
3.35 MB/sec 		3731
3.83 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3762
2.55 MTE/sec 		4202
2.84 MTE/sec
SQLite 2927
81.2 Krows/sec 		3577
99.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2911
13.2 MB/sec 		3789
17.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4184
3.79 MElements/sec 		4463
4.04 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3033
94.8 Mpixels/sec 		3791
118.5 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3765
100.0 Mpixels/sec 		4886
129.8 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5515
379.2 functions/sec 		6580
452.5 functions/sec
Camera 3471
9.63 images/sec 		4396
12.2 images/sec
SGEMM 2955
62.5 Gflops 		3759
79.5 Gflops
SFFT 3573
8.91 Gflops 		4484
11.2 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3145
2.35 Mpairs/sec 		3971
2.97 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2956
431.8 Kpixels/sec 		3598
525.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4008
11735.7 FPS 		5033
14735.6 FPS
HDR 3695
13.4 Mpixels/sec 		4621
16.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3192
55.9 Mpixels/sec 		3923
68.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3128
26.8 Words/sec 		3987
34.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3237
945.5 Ksubwindows/sec 		3786
1.11 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3151
8.73 GB/sec 		3246
8.99 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4672
92.7 ns 		5369
80.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2982
15.9 GB/sec 		3415
18.2 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 6221 7970
AES 5005
3.77 GB/sec 		6917
5.21 GB/sec
LZMA 6523
10.2 MB/sec 		8850
13.8 MB/sec
JPEG 7804
62.8 Mpixels/sec 		10598
85.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6716
93.1 Mpixels/sec 		8628
119.7 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5859
6.02 MB/sec 		7203
7.40 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8394
5.68 MTE/sec 		10500
7.11 MTE/sec
SQLite 5694
157.9 Krows/sec 		7320
202.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5453
24.8 MB/sec 		7482
34.0 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7497
6.79 MElements/sec 		9160
8.30 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6301
196.9 Mpixels/sec 		8235
257.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7885
209.5 Mpixels/sec 		9368
248.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12577
864.8 functions/sec 		15385
1.06 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7883
21.9 images/sec 		10385
28.8 images/sec
SGEMM 4996
105.6 Gflops 		6679
141.2 Gflops
SFFT 6595
16.4 Gflops 		8876
22.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6627
4.95 Mpairs/sec 		8749
6.53 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6296
919.4 Kpixels/sec 		8437
1.23 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9086
26598.9 FPS 		12335
36108.9 FPS
HDR 7752
28.1 Mpixels/sec 		10304
37.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6435
112.7 Mpixels/sec 		8648
151.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5693
48.7 Words/sec 		6668
57.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 6915
2.02 Msubwindows/sec 		9237
2.70 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3607
9.99 GB/sec 		4192
11.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4430
97.7 ns 		5145
84.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3245
17.3 GB/sec 		3608
19.3 GB/sec

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