MacBook (Early 2016) vs MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook (Early 2016) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3698 2802
Multi-Core Score 7033 4999
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System Information

MacBook (Early 2016) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555) macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H15)
Model MacBook (Early 2016) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Processor Intel Core m7-6Y75 @ 1.30 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-3317U @ 1.70 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3 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 4096 KB 3072 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-9AE82516C7C6B903 MacBook9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-66F35F19FE2A0D05 MacBookAir5,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MB91.88Z.0154.B07.1608151057 Apple Inc. 264.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3 4.00 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook (Early 2016) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Single-Core Score 3698 2802
AES 2443
1.84 GB/sec 		2214
1.67 GB/sec
LZMA 3486
5.45 MB/sec 		2758
4.31 MB/sec
JPEG 3990
32.1 Mpixels/sec 		2944
23.7 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3706
51.4 Mpixels/sec 		2603
36.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3806
3.91 MB/sec 		1824
1.87 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3650
2.47 MTE/sec 		3151
2.13 MTE/sec
SQLite 3531
97.9 Krows/sec 		2117
58.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 3431
15.6 MB/sec 		2276
10.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3812
3.45 MElements/sec 		3440
3.12 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 3468
108.4 Mpixels/sec 		2434
76.1 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 3591
95.4 Mpixels/sec 		2996
79.6 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 4535
311.8 functions/sec 		4272
293.8 functions/sec
Camera 4035
11.2 images/sec 		2881
7.99 images/sec
SGEMM 4154
87.8 Gflops 		1410
29.8 Gflops
SFFT 4363
10.9 Gflops 		2938
7.33 Gflops
N-Body Physics 3818
2.85 Mpairs/sec 		2397
1.79 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3509
512.5 Kpixels/sec 		2205
322.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4243
12421.3 FPS 		3259
9542.5 FPS
HDR 4589
16.6 Mpixels/sec 		2730
9.90 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3870
67.8 Mpixels/sec 		2765
48.4 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3749
32.1 Words/sec 		2705
23.1 Words/sec
Face Detection 3905
1.14 Msubwindows/sec 		2614
763.5 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3257
9.02 GB/sec 		3357
9.30 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3632
8.39 Moperations/sec 		5138
84.3 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3458
18.5 GB/sec 		2577
13.8 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook (Early 2016) MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012)
Multi-Core Score 7033 4999
AES 8091
6.09 GB/sec 		4310
3.25 GB/sec
LZMA 7459
11.7 MB/sec 		6124
9.57 MB/sec
JPEG 9065
72.9 Mpixels/sec 		6960
56.0 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8281
114.8 Mpixels/sec 		5996
83.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7224
7.42 MB/sec 		4334
4.45 MB/sec
Dijkstra 8483
5.74 MTE/sec 		7910
5.35 MTE/sec
SQLite 6775
187.8 Krows/sec 		4536
125.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 6805
30.9 MB/sec 		4757
21.6 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 4889
4.43 MElements/sec 		5853
5.30 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7270
227.2 Mpixels/sec 		5047
157.7 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7933
210.8 Mpixels/sec 		5880
156.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 8620
592.7 functions/sec 		8262
568.1 functions/sec
Camera 9103
25.2 images/sec 		6285
17.4 images/sec
SGEMM 6910
146.1 Gflops 		2400
50.7 Gflops
SFFT 8517
21.2 Gflops 		5167
12.9 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8193
6.12 Mpairs/sec 		4682
3.50 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 7961
1.16 Mpixels/sec 		4692
685.2 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 10669
31234.8 FPS 		7180
21021.1 FPS
HDR 9900
35.9 Mpixels/sec 		5642
20.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7737
135.5 Mpixels/sec 		4941
86.6 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6263
53.6 Words/sec 		4773
40.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 8292
2.42 Msubwindows/sec 		5142
1.50 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4162
11.5 GB/sec 		3276
9.08 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3306
7.64 Moperations/sec 		4712
91.9 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4197
22.4 GB/sec 		2776
14.8 GB/sec

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