MacBook (Mid 2010) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Geekbench 3 Score 1464 2580
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 2643 5337

System Information

MacBook (Mid 2010) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.11.1 (Build 15B42) Mac OS X 10.10.1 (Build 14B25)
Model MacBook (Mid 2010) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores
Intel Core i5-3427U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 3072 KB 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 0 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F22C89C8 Apple Inc. Mac-2E6FAB96566FE58C MacBookAir5,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MB71.88Z.0039.B0B.1006012319 Apple Inc. MBA51.88Z.00EF.B02.1211271028
Memory 4.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Integer Performance

MacBook (Mid 2010) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Integer 1599 2460
Integer Multicore 3047 5800
AES 148 2354
AES Multicore 286 4784
Twofish 1988 2339
Twofish Multicore 3948 6045
SHA1 2249 2594
SHA1 Multicore 4405 5442
SHA2 2421 2942
SHA2 Multicore 4645 5277
BZip2 Compress 1671 1984
BZip2 Compress Multicore 3242 5228
BZip2 Decompress 1739 2086
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 3388 5663
JPEG Compress 2005 2372
JPEG Compress Multicore 3908 6565
JPEG Decompress 2683 3438
JPEG Decompress Multicore 5040 7264
PNG Compress 1902 2309
PNG Compress Multicore 3692 6520
PNG Decompress 2015 2684
PNG Decompress Multicore 3880 6535
Sobel 1848 2799
Sobel Multicore 3607 6242
Lua 1861 2364
Lua Multicore 3558 5347
Dijkstra 1364 2078
Dijkstra Multicore 2127 5048

Floating Point Performance

MacBook (Mid 2010) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Floating Point 1610 2634
Floating Point Multicore 3108 6058
BlackScholes 2268 3272
BlackScholes Multicore 4363 7862
Mandelbrot 1565 2331
Mandelbrot Multicore 3058 7464
Sharpen Filter 1970 2180
Sharpen Filter Multicore 3828 5156
Blur Filter 1748 1760
Blur Filter Multicore 3391 4621
SGEMM 1223 2740
SGEMM Multicore 2326 5997
DGEMM 1148 2892
DGEMM Multicore 2207 5883
SFFT 1531 2380
SFFT Multicore 2983 4721
DFFT 1473 2582
DFFT Multicore 2794 5459
N-Body 1588 3803
N-Body Multicore 3079 7696
Ray Trace 1906 2972
Ray Trace Multicore 3693 6805

Memory Performance

MacBook (Mid 2010) MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012)
Memory 904 2712
Memory Multicore 905 2973
Stream Copy 1332 3735
Stream Copy Multicore 1329 3685
Stream Scale 780 2573
Stream Scale Multicore 783 2835
Stream Add 793 2348
Stream Add Multicore 793 2689
Stream Triad 814 2399
Stream Triad Multicore 815 2783