MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Difference
Single-Core Score 822 872 94.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Multi-Core Score 1742 3335 52.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Geekbench 5.3.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.0.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H15) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
Processor Intel Core i7-5650U @ 2.20 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 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 4.00 MB x 1 8.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-9F18E312C5C2BF0B MacBookAir7,1 Apple Inc. Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 iMac13,2
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 195.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 287.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB DDR3 32.00 GB DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Difference
Single-Core Score 822 872 94.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
AES-XTS 1115 985 113.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Text Compression 817 1021 80.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Image Compression 834 858 97.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Navigation 748 896 83.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
HTML5 663 713 93.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
SQLite 752 761 98.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
PDF Rendering 760 810 93.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Text Rendering 753 758 99.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Clang 729 750 97.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Camera 752 841 89.4%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
N-Body Physics 692 955 72.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1033 1035 99.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Gaussian Blur 702 783 89.7%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Face Detection 850 885 96.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Horizon Detection 825 901 91.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Image Inpainting 1469 1724 85.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
HDR 1595 1577 101.1%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Ray Tracing 1099 951 115.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Structure from Motion 757 682 111.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Speech Recognition 713 1034 69.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Machine Learning 784 623 125.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) iMac (27-inch Late 2012) Difference
Multi-Core Score 1742 3335 52.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
AES-XTS 2382 3577 66.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Text Compression 1946 4494 43.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Image Compression 1914 3827 50.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Navigation 1640 2431 67.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
HTML5 1265 2857 44.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
SQLite 1561 3070 50.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
PDF Rendering 1656 3261 50.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Text Rendering 1578 2790 56.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Clang 1634 3220 50.7%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Camera 1523 3109 49.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
N-Body Physics 1623 3798 42.7%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Rigid Body Physics 2479 4934 50.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Gaussian Blur 1576 3172 49.7%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Face Detection 1872 3650 51.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Horizon Detection 1858 3789 49.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Image Inpainting 2653 5429 48.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
HDR 3295 6622 49.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Ray Tracing 2560 4390 58.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Structure from Motion 1532 2880 53.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Speech Recognition 1245 2659 46.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
Machine Learning 1182 1432 82.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)