MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) vs MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 4746 3190
Multi-Core Score 9928 6043
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System Information

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Operating System macOS 10.12.6 (Build 16G29) macOS 10.12.5 (Build 16F73)
Model MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Processor Intel Core i7-7567U @ 3.50 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 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 4096 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-CAD6701F7CEA0921 MacBookPro14,2 Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP142.88Z.0160.B02.1706181912 Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0166.B26.1703211638
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Single-Core Score 4746 3190
AES 3200
2.41 GB/sec 		2568
1.93 GB/sec
LZMA 4368
6.82 MB/sec 		2466
3.85 MB/sec
JPEG 5028
40.5 Mpixels/sec 		3051
24.6 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4834
67.0 Mpixels/sec 		2901
40.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4915
5.05 MB/sec 		2824
2.90 MB/sec
Dijkstra 5449
3.69 MTE/sec 		3165
2.14 MTE/sec
SQLite 4380
121.4 Krows/sec 		2893
80.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4338
19.7 MB/sec 		2818
12.8 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5966
5.41 MElements/sec 		3586
3.25 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4430
138.4 Mpixels/sec 		2930
91.6 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5075
134.8 Mpixels/sec 		2932
77.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8449
580.9 functions/sec 		5365
368.9 functions/sec
Camera 5323
14.8 images/sec 		3406
9.45 images/sec
SGEMM 4904
103.7 Gflops 		2160
45.7 Gflops
SFFT 5630
14.0 Gflops 		3192
7.96 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4868
3.64 Mpairs/sec 		3074
2.30 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 4543
663.5 Kpixels/sec 		2985
435.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5467
16006.1 FPS 		3992
11687.9 FPS
HDR 5828
21.1 Mpixels/sec 		3584
13.0 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5160
90.4 Mpixels/sec 		3108
54.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5267
45.1 Words/sec 		3020
25.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 4805
1.40 Msubwindows/sec 		3250
949.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4192
11.6 GB/sec 		2990
8.29 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3254
133.0 ns 		5143
84.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3672
19.6 GB/sec 		3000
16.0 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2017) MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
Multi-Core Score 9928 6043
AES 10697
8.06 GB/sec 		5046
3.80 GB/sec
LZMA 10472
16.4 MB/sec 		6568
10.3 MB/sec
JPEG 12249
98.6 Mpixels/sec 		7704
62.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 10926
151.5 Mpixels/sec 		6852
95.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 9742
10.0 MB/sec 		5706
5.86 MB/sec
Dijkstra 14436
9.77 MTE/sec 		8034
5.44 MTE/sec
SQLite 9174
254.3 Krows/sec 		5638
156.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 9322
42.3 MB/sec 		5439
24.7 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 13162
11.9 MElements/sec 		5850
5.30 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 9685
302.6 Mpixels/sec 		6093
190.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 11128
295.6 Mpixels/sec 		6195
164.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 19911
1.37 Kfunctions/sec 		11933
820.5 functions/sec
Camera 12560
34.8 images/sec 		7676
21.3 images/sec
SGEMM 8856
187.2 Gflops 		4946
104.5 Gflops
SFFT 11486
28.6 Gflops 		6745
16.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 10992
8.21 Mpairs/sec 		6617
4.94 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 10656
1.56 Mpixels/sec 		6335
925.1 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 14670
42945.2 FPS 		9203
26941.7 FPS
HDR 13142
47.6 Mpixels/sec 		7833
28.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10038
175.9 Mpixels/sec 		6357
111.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 9832
84.1 Words/sec 		5452
46.7 Words/sec
Face Detection 11124
3.25 Msubwindows/sec 		6946
2.03 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5448
15.1 GB/sec 		3636
10.1 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3293
131.5 ns 		4382
98.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4222
22.5 GB/sec 		3238
17.3 GB/sec

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