MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) vs iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Difference
Single-Core Score 671 1007 66.6%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Multi-Core Score 1302 3858 33.7%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Geekbench 5.4.4 Tryout Geekbench 5.0.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 12.3 (Build 21E230) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
Model MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700 @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 3.00 MB x 1 8.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2 Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 428.60.3.0.0 Apple Inc. 175.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB DDR3 32.00 GB DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Difference
Single-Core Score 671 1007 66.6%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
AES-XTS 920 1037 88.7%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Text Compression 637 965 66.0%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Image Compression 685 1045 65.6%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Navigation 630 991 63.6%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
HTML5 554 919 60.3%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
SQLite 601 1011 59.4%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
PDF Rendering 638 1045 61.1%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Text Rendering 627 1026 61.1%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Clang 630 981 64.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Camera 619 1055 58.7%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
N-Body Physics 499 968 51.5%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Rigid Body Physics 841 1165 72.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Gaussian Blur 522 339 154.0%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Face Detection 688 628 109.6%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Horizon Detection 675 1050 64.3%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Image Inpainting 1171 1984 59.0%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
HDR 1306 1982 65.9%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Ray Tracing 892 949 94.0%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Structure from Motion 638 1042 61.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Speech Recognition 550 1064 51.7%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Machine Learning 642 1090 58.9%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015) iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) Difference
Multi-Core Score 1302 3858 33.7%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
AES-XTS 1715 5165 33.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Text Compression 1463 3973 36.8%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Image Compression 1484 4291 34.6%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Navigation 1361 3109 43.8%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
HTML5 1020 3258 31.3%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
SQLite 1202 3408 35.3%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
PDF Rendering 1330 3816 34.9%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Text Rendering 1246 3352 37.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Clang 1290 3753 34.4%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Camera 1164 3513 33.1%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
N-Body Physics 1161 4020 28.9%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1955 4959 39.4%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Gaussian Blur 699 3632 19.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Face Detection 753 4026 18.7%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Horizon Detection 1086 4144 26.2%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Image Inpainting 1922 5928 32.4%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
HDR 2545 7394 34.4%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Ray Tracing 1974 5555 35.5%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Structure from Motion 1249 4032 31.0%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Speech Recognition 1013 2641 38.4%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
Machine Learning 1012 2405 42.1%
MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 

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