MacBook Air (Late 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Late 2009)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 4254 2576
Multi-Core Score 7879 7127
Geekbench 4.3.2 Pro Geekbench 4.4.4 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Operating System macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132) macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G14033)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.66 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
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 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-F2268DAE
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.260.170.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.5125.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 63.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 16.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Single-Core Score 4254 2576
AES 3020
2.27 GB/sec 		130
100.6 MB/sec
LZMA 4071
6.36 MB/sec 		3093
4.83 MB/sec
JPEG 4574
36.8 Mpixels/sec 		3081
24.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 4224
58.6 Mpixels/sec 		2899
40.2 Mpixels/sec
Lua 4514
4.64 MB/sec 		2171
2.23 MB/sec
Dijkstra 4269
2.89 MTE/sec 		3333
2.26 MTE/sec
SQLite 4044
112.1 Krows/sec 		2244
62.2 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 4038
18.3 MB/sec 		2307
10.5 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 5224
4.73 MElements/sec 		3287
2.98 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 4097
128.0 Mpixels/sec 		2105
65.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 5078
134.9 Mpixels/sec 		2923
77.7 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 7579
521.1 functions/sec 		4780
328.7 functions/sec
Camera 4813
13.3 images/sec 		3192
8.85 images/sec
SGEMM 4694
99.2 Gflops 		867
18.3 Gflops
SFFT 4902
12.2 Gflops 		1868
4.66 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4431
3.31 Mpairs/sec 		1928
1.44 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3984
581.8 Kpixels/sec 		2002
292.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 5063
14823.0 FPS 		3263
9552.0 FPS
HDR 5443
19.7 Mpixels/sec 		2470
8.95 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4831
84.6 Mpixels/sec 		2656
46.5 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3847
32.9 Words/sec 		3296
28.2 Words/sec
Face Detection 3759
1.10 Msubwindows/sec 		2858
834.8 Ksubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3527
9.77 GB/sec 		2336
6.47 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2927
147.9 ns 		6179
70.1 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3525
18.8 GB/sec 		1994
10.6 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Multi-Core Score 7879 7127
AES 8355
6.29 GB/sec 		461
355.9 MB/sec
LZMA 7763
12.1 MB/sec 		10421
16.3 MB/sec
JPEG 9534
76.7 Mpixels/sec 		10663
85.8 Mpixels/sec
Canny 8666
120.2 Mpixels/sec 		8899
123.4 Mpixels/sec
Lua 7602
7.81 MB/sec 		7356
7.56 MB/sec
Dijkstra 10462
7.08 MTE/sec 		8621
5.83 MTE/sec
SQLite 7324
203.1 Krows/sec 		7779
215.7 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 7369
33.5 MB/sec 		7795
35.4 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 9604
8.70 MElements/sec 		11364
10.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 7801
243.7 Mpixels/sec 		7228
225.8 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 10126
269.0 Mpixels/sec 		8540
226.9 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 15399
1.06 Kfunctions/sec 		16077
1.11 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 9725
27.0 images/sec 		11029
30.6 images/sec
SGEMM 7584
160.3 Gflops 		2983
63.1 Gflops
SFFT 8787
21.9 Gflops 		6572
16.4 Gflops
N-Body Physics 8450
6.31 Mpairs/sec 		6737
5.03 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 8143
1.19 Mpixels/sec 		6628
968.0 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 11134
32594.4 FPS 		11355
33242.3 FPS
HDR 10199
37.0 Mpixels/sec 		8131
29.5 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8694
152.3 Mpixels/sec 		9142
160.2 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 6503
55.6 Words/sec 		8351
71.5 Words/sec
Face Detection 8719
2.55 Msubwindows/sec 		9947
2.91 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4622
12.8 GB/sec 		2644
7.33 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2862
151.2 ns 		6059
71.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4796
25.6 GB/sec 		2413
12.9 GB/sec

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