MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) vs MacBook Air (Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4266 3572
Multi-Core Score 13164 6464
Geekbench 4.2.3 Geekbench 4.3.0 Pro

System Information

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.14 (Build 18A353d) macOS 10.14.1 (Build 18B75)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads 		Intel Core i5-5350U @ 1.80 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4 32 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-06F11F11946D27C5 MacBookPro11,5 Apple Inc. Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 MacBookAir7,2
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP114.88Z.0184.B00.1806051659 Apple Inc. 182.0.0.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 8.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 4266 3572
AES 3623
2.73 GB/sec 		2890
2.18 GB/sec
LZMA 3813
5.96 MB/sec 		3267
5.10 MB/sec
JPEG 4422
35.6 Mpixels/sec 		3596
28.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3987
55.3 Mpixels/sec 		3301
45.8 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4139
4.25 MB/sec 		3380
3.47 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4783
3.24 MTE/sec 		4085
2.76 MTE/sec
SQLite 3743
103.8 Krows/sec 		3083
85.5 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3820
17.3 MB/sec 		3117
14.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5005
4.54 MElements/sec 		3865
3.50 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3909
122.2 Mpixels/sec 		3291
102.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5088
135.2 Mpixels/sec 		3940
104.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7334
504.3 functions/sec 		5790
398.1 functions/sec
Camera 4441
12.3 images/sec 		3686
10.2 images/sec
SGEMM 3533
74.7 Gflops 		3174
67.1 Gflops
SFFT 4137
10.3 Gflops 		3847
9.59 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3714
2.77 Mpairs/sec 		3376
2.52 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3243
473.6 Kpixels/sec 		3223
470.7 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4452
13034.9 FPS 		4297
12580.1 FPS
HDR 4180
15.2 Mpixels/sec 		3925
14.2 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4238
74.2 Mpixels/sec 		3408
59.7 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 4350
37.2 Words/sec 		3247
27.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 4022
1.17 Msubwindows/sec 		3472
1.01 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3616
10.0 GB/sec 		3113
8.62 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5185
83.5 ns 		4978
87.0 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4682
25.0 GB/sec 		3107
16.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) MacBook Air (Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 13164 6464
AES 11331
8.53 GB/sec 		5462
4.11 GB/sec
LZMA 15615
24.4 MB/sec 		6914
10.8 MB/sec
JPEG 17861
143.7 Mpixels/sec 		8373
67.4 Mpixels/sec
Canny 14951
207.3 Mpixels/sec 		7286
101.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 12587
12.9 MB/sec 		6007
6.17 MB/sec
Dijkstra 24262
16.4 MTE/sec 		8863
6.00 MTE/sec
SQLite 11059
306.6 Krows/sec 		5966
165.4 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 12510
56.8 MB/sec 		6014
27.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 16466
14.9 MElements/sec 		6012
5.45 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 14472
452.2 Mpixels/sec 		6731
210.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 16825
447.0 Mpixels/sec 		7997
212.5 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 24835
1.71 Kfunctions/sec 		12418
853.9 functions/sec
Camera 17175
47.6 images/sec 		8034
22.3 images/sec
SGEMM 10345
218.7 Gflops 		5157
109.0 Gflops
SFFT 15128
37.7 Gflops 		7033
17.5 Gflops
N-Body Physics 13685
10.2 Mpairs/sec 		6851
5.12 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 12668
1.85 Mpixels/sec 		6717
980.9 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 19317
56549.2 FPS 		9646
28237.8 FPS
HDR 15543
56.3 Mpixels/sec 		8177
29.6 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14139
247.7 Mpixels/sec 		6793
119.0 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 15449
132.2 Words/sec 		5818
49.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 16237
4.74 Msubwindows/sec 		7341
2.14 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 5081
14.1 GB/sec 		3814
10.6 GB/sec
Memory Latency 5338
81.1 ns 		4727
91.6 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4579
24.5 GB/sec 		3344
17.9 GB/sec

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