MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 2828 5515
Multi-Core Score 4961 17628
Geekbench 4.0.4 Geekbench 4.1.1 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.12.3 (Build 16D32) macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-2677M @ 1.80 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 42 Stepping 7 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 4096 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-742912EFDBEE19B3 MacBookAir4,2 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA41.88Z.0077.B15.1610201441 Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0145.B09.1706181606
Memory 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 24.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 2828 5515
AES 2378
1.79 GB/sec 		4973
3.75 GB/sec
LZMA 2986
4.66 MB/sec 		5176
8.08 MB/sec
JPEG 3107
25.0 Mpixels/sec 		5823
46.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 2593
36.0 Mpixels/sec 		5237
72.6 Mpixels/sec
Lua 2012
2.07 MB/sec 		5686
5.84 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3008
2.04 MTE/sec 		5963
4.03 MTE/sec
SQLite 2035
56.4 Krows/sec 		5088
141.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2358
10.7 MB/sec 		4945
22.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3103
2.81 MElements/sec 		6602
5.98 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2601
81.3 Mpixels/sec 		5058
158.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 2584
68.7 Mpixels/sec 		5771
153.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 3130
215.2 functions/sec 		9590
659.4 functions/sec
Camera 3086
8.56 images/sec 		6064
16.8 images/sec
SGEMM 1631
34.5 Gflops 		5971
126.2 Gflops
SFFT 2976
7.42 Gflops 		6227
15.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 2226
1.66 Mpairs/sec 		5481
4.09 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2303
336.3 Kpixels/sec 		5157
753.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3445
10084.8 FPS 		6353
18600.2 FPS
HDR 2687
9.74 Mpixels/sec 		6834
24.8 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2909
51.0 Mpixels/sec 		5991
105.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3185
27.3 Words/sec 		6465
55.3 Words/sec
Face Detection 2911
850.2 Ksubwindows/sec 		5473
1.60 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 2788
7.73 GB/sec 		3911
10.8 GB/sec
Memory Latency 6390
14.8 Moperations/sec 		6441
67.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2509
13.4 GB/sec 		3112
16.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 4961 17628
AES 4601
3.47 GB/sec 		9349
7.04 GB/sec
LZMA 6474
10.1 MB/sec 		22958
35.9 MB/sec
JPEG 7291
58.7 Mpixels/sec 		27424
220.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6163
85.5 Mpixels/sec 		18247
253.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4661
4.79 MB/sec 		22073
22.7 MB/sec
Dijkstra 7836
5.30 MTE/sec 		15440
10.4 MTE/sec
SQLite 4267
118.3 Krows/sec 		17533
486.1 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4785
21.7 MB/sec 		20608
93.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3535
3.20 MElements/sec 		19109
17.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 5361
167.5 Mpixels/sec 		21444
670.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5163
137.2 Mpixels/sec 		18961
503.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5327
366.3 functions/sec 		44194
3.04 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 6436
17.8 images/sec 		27638
76.6 images/sec
SGEMM 2126
44.9 Gflops 		11874
251.0 Gflops
SFFT 5422
13.5 Gflops 		25986
64.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4517
3.37 Mpairs/sec 		24567
18.3 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 5141
750.8 Kpixels/sec 		23626
3.45 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 7871
23042.0 FPS 		32882
96258.4 FPS
HDR 6024
21.8 Mpixels/sec 		23545
85.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5279
92.5 Mpixels/sec 		24696
432.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5757
49.3 Words/sec 		10380
88.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 6080
1.78 Msubwindows/sec 		25561
7.47 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3142
8.71 GB/sec 		3844
10.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5479
12.7 Moperations/sec 		6240
69.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 2899
15.5 GB/sec 		2989
16.0 GB/sec

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