iMac (27-inch Late 2012) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 729 1136 64.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 2385 2592 92.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.4.4 Tryout Geekbench 5.1.1 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Operating System macOS 12.3 (Build 21E230) macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287)
Model iMac (27-inch Late 2012) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Processor Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Intel Core i5-1030NG7 @ 1.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5
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 48.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 512 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6.00 MB x 1 6.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 iMac13,2 Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 425.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB DDR3 16.00 GB LPDDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 729 1136 64.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 842 3538 23.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 773 865 89.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 739 937 78.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 747 855 87.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 580 855 67.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 643 939 68.5%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 684 1031 66.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 639 959 66.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 636 947 67.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 727 1057 68.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 671 918 73.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 928 1199 77.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 659 941 70.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 747 1096 68.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 768 919 83.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1391 1938 71.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 1368 1879 72.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 902 1413 63.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 592 987 60.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 755 940 80.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 541 1104 49.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2012) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 2385 2592 92.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 3006 8314 36.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 2477 2748 90.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 2689 2702 99.5%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 1802 2576 70.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 1999 1691 118.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 2265 2015 112.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 2254 2191 102.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 2100 2238 93.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 2197 2008 109.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 2170 1974 109.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 2425 2476 97.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 3443 3276 105.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 2847 1874 151.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 2779 2561 108.5%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 2566 2375 108.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 3905 3323 117.5%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 4636 3932 117.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 3517 3326 105.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 2043 1925 106.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1751 1618 108.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1294 1596 81.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2012)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)