MacBook Air (Mid 2017) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 3531 3314
Multi-Core Score 6488 6402
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System Information

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)
Model MacBook Air (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Processor Intel Core i5-5350U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-2620M @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
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-94245B3640C91C81 MacBookPro8,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBA71.88Z.0178.B00.1806051659 Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0050.B00.1804101331
Memory 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Single-Core Score 3531 3314
AES 2881
2.17 GB/sec 		2720
2.05 GB/sec
LZMA 3252
5.08 MB/sec 		3441
5.38 MB/sec
JPEG 3580
28.8 Mpixels/sec 		3543
28.5 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3272
45.4 Mpixels/sec 		3199
44.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3370
3.46 MB/sec 		2316
2.38 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3920
2.65 MTE/sec 		3748
2.54 MTE/sec
SQLite 3087
85.6 Krows/sec 		2590
71.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2987
13.6 MB/sec 		2711
12.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3723
3.37 MElements/sec 		4250
3.85 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3205
100.2 Mpixels/sec 		3080
96.2 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3170
84.2 Mpixels/sec 		3103
82.4 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5693
391.5 functions/sec 		5560
382.3 functions/sec
Camera 3644
10.1 images/sec 		3659
10.1 images/sec
SGEMM 3157
66.7 Gflops 		1801
38.1 Gflops
SFFT 3868
9.64 Gflops 		3578
8.92 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3368
2.52 Mpairs/sec 		2589
1.93 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3235
472.4 Kpixels/sec 		2763
403.5 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4274
12513.0 FPS 		4077
11937.0 FPS
HDR 3933
14.3 Mpixels/sec 		3212
11.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3377
59.2 Mpixels/sec 		3526
61.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3285
28.1 Words/sec 		3650
31.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3480
1.02 Msubwindows/sec 		3154
921.3 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3165
8.77 GB/sec 		3066
8.50 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5244
82.6 ns 		6207
69.7 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3079
16.4 GB/sec 		2780
14.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Mid 2017) MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Multi-Core Score 6488 6402
AES 5436
4.09 GB/sec 		5640
4.25 GB/sec
LZMA 6921
10.8 MB/sec 		7847
12.3 MB/sec
JPEG 8304
66.8 Mpixels/sec 		9053
72.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7165
99.4 Mpixels/sec 		7422
102.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5863
6.03 MB/sec 		5417
5.57 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8968
6.07 MTE/sec 		9316
6.30 MTE/sec
SQLite 5827
161.5 Krows/sec 		5659
156.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5751
26.1 MB/sec 		5802
26.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 6449
5.84 MElements/sec 		7796
7.06 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6614
206.7 Mpixels/sec 		6625
207.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 6693
177.8 Mpixels/sec 		6717
178.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12662
870.6 functions/sec 		12449
856.0 functions/sec
Camera 8428
23.4 images/sec 		8422
23.4 images/sec
SGEMM 5462
115.5 Gflops 		3382
71.5 Gflops
SFFT 7282
18.2 Gflops 		7126
17.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 7161
5.35 Mpairs/sec 		5571
4.16 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6781
990.3 Kpixels/sec 		6262
914.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9797
28682.0 FPS 		9628
28187.0 FPS
HDR 8430
30.6 Mpixels/sec 		7314
26.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6830
119.7 Mpixels/sec 		6694
117.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5999
51.3 Words/sec 		6561
56.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 7477
2.18 Msubwindows/sec 		7415
2.17 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3841
10.6 GB/sec 		3573
9.90 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4825
89.7 ns 		5980
72.4 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3404
18.2 GB/sec 		3107
16.6 GB/sec

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