MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Single-Core Score 1745 1245 140.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Multi-Core Score 7539 9571 78.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Geekbench 5.4.5 Tryout Geekbench 5.0.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Operating System macOS 12.4 (Build 21F79) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Processor Apple M1 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID Apple M1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 128 KB x 1 32.0 KB x 8
L1 Data Cache 64.0 KB x 1 32.0 KB x 8
L2 Cache 4.00 MB x 1 256 KB x 8
L3 Cache 16.0 MB x 1
Motherboard MacBookAir10,1 Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 1.0
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.270.93.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 32.00 GB RAM

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Single-Core Score 1745 1245 140.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
AES-XTS 2797 1273 219.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Compression 1521 1384 109.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Compression 1380 1246 110.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Navigation 1634 1335 122.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HTML5 1704 1121 152.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
SQLite 1423 1214 117.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
PDF Rendering 1621 1261 128.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Rendering 1795 1221 147.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Clang 1737 1180 147.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Camera 1595 1251 127.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
N-Body Physics 1815 1252 145.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1777 1384 128.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Gaussian Blur 1412 401 352.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Face Detection 2242 742 302.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Horizon Detection 1974 1259 156.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Inpainting 3212 2565 125.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HDR 2489 2391 104.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Ray Tracing 2633 1136 231.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Structure from Motion 1414 1265 111.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Speech Recognition 1599 1427 112.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Machine Learning 1171 1351 86.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Multi-Core Score 7539 9571 78.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
AES-XTS 9466 7062 134.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Compression 5851 12083 48.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Compression 7119 11771 60.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Navigation 5327 5189 102.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HTML5 7580 9064 83.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
SQLite 6689 10666 62.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
PDF Rendering 7003 9056 77.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Rendering 7679 7901 97.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Clang 8712 10924 79.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Camera 7030 9677 72.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
N-Body Physics 7428 10323 72.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Rigid Body Physics 8761 15551 56.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Gaussian Blur 7834 10246 76.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Face Detection 10008 12313 81.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Horizon Detection 9774 10484 93.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Inpainting 12626 14250 88.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HDR 12535 19711 63.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Ray Tracing 14620 14440 101.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Structure from Motion 6888 10692 64.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Speech Recognition 4749 5239 90.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Machine Learning 4605 3528 130.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)