MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 11" (Early 2015) vs MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 11" (Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3434 3679
Multi-Core Score 6277 7230
Geekbench 4.4.4 Geekbench 4.4.2 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 11" (Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.16 (Build 21G83) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G3020)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 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 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 3072 KB 4096 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-9F18E312C5C2BF0B MacBookAir7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 MacBookPro9,2
BIOS Apple Inc. 430.140.3.0.0 Apple Inc. 230.0.0.0.0
Memory 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 11" (Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3434 3679
AES 2751
2.07 GB/sec 		2917
2.20 GB/sec
LZMA 3040
4.75 MB/sec 		3887
6.07 MB/sec
JPEG 3344
26.9 Mpixels/sec 		3984
32.1 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3053
42.3 Mpixels/sec 		3528
48.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3275
3.37 MB/sec 		2565
2.64 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3663
2.48 MTE/sec 		3993
2.70 MTE/sec
SQLite 2917
80.9 Krows/sec 		2859
79.3 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2990
13.6 MB/sec 		3187
14.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4174
3.78 MElements/sec 		4684
4.24 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3024
94.5 Mpixels/sec 		3361
105.0 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3732
99.1 Mpixels/sec 		4185
111.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5648
388.4 functions/sec 		6077
417.8 functions/sec
Camera 3409
9.45 images/sec 		4057
11.3 images/sec
SGEMM 2963
62.6 Gflops 		2038
43.1 Gflops
SFFT 3578
8.92 Gflops 		3991
9.95 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3132
2.34 Mpairs/sec 		3002
2.24 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 2960
432.3 Kpixels/sec 		3112
454.4 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 3993
11690.9 FPS 		4367
12783.9 FPS
HDR 3692
13.4 Mpixels/sec 		3790
13.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3184
55.8 Mpixels/sec 		3808
66.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3115
26.7 Words/sec 		3873
33.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3222
941.1 Ksubwindows/sec 		3433
1.00 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3226
8.94 GB/sec 		3789
10.5 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5251
82.4 ns 		5496
78.8 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3117
16.6 GB/sec 		3205
17.1 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 11" (Early 2015) MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 6277 7230
AES 5082
3.83 GB/sec 		6142
4.63 GB/sec
LZMA 6616
10.3 MB/sec 		8609
13.4 MB/sec
JPEG 7808
62.8 Mpixels/sec 		9806
78.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 6786
94.1 Mpixels/sec 		8361
115.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5869
6.03 MB/sec 		6323
6.50 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8742
5.92 MTE/sec 		9827
6.65 MTE/sec
SQLite 5721
158.6 Krows/sec 		6435
178.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5551
25.2 MB/sec 		6728
30.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7622
6.91 MElements/sec 		9221
8.35 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6317
197.4 Mpixels/sec 		7210
225.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7911
210.2 Mpixels/sec 		8943
237.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 12482
858.2 functions/sec 		13642
938.0 functions/sec
Camera 7804
21.6 images/sec 		9410
26.1 images/sec
SGEMM 5068
107.1 Gflops 		3886
82.2 Gflops
SFFT 6614
16.5 Gflops 		7658
19.1 Gflops
N-Body Physics 6631
4.95 Mpairs/sec 		7091
5.30 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6174
901.5 Kpixels/sec 		7139
1.04 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9130
26727.0 FPS 		10782
31565.5 FPS
HDR 7785
28.2 Mpixels/sec 		8516
30.9 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6439
112.8 Mpixels/sec 		7444
130.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5670
48.5 Words/sec 		7253
62.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 6713
1.96 Msubwindows/sec 		7829
2.29 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3729
10.3 GB/sec 		4664
12.9 GB/sec
Memory Latency 4642
93.3 ns 		5601
77.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3403
18.2 GB/sec 		3537
18.9 GB/sec

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