iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1269 1107 114.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 7583 2342 323.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.0.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.1.1 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Operating System macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95) macOS 10.15.3 (Build 19D2064)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Processor Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Intel Core i7-1060NG7 @ 1.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 8 32.0 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 8 48.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 8 512 KB x 4
L3 Cache 16.0 MB x 1 8.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1 Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 220.270.93.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.87.10.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.13561.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB DDR4 16.00 GB LPDDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1269 1107 114.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 1244 3372 36.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 1399 853 164.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 1306 995 131.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 1318 838 157.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 1117 842 132.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 1261 923 136.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1242 982 126.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1282 991 129.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 1227 893 137.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 1255 1010 124.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1281 933 137.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1497 1192 125.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 420 905 46.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 784 1029 76.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1303 886 147.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 2640 1886 140.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 2485 1810 137.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1156 1376 84.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1294 943 137.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1474 912 161.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1299 1014 128.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 7583 2342 323.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 4824 8018 60.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 9849 2349 419.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 10168 2363 430.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 3681 2248 163.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 7121 1439 494.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 8921 1730 515.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 7201 1930 373.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 6273 1987 315.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 9320 1746 533.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 7303 1798 406.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 9364 2187 428.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 13553 2817 481.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 8655 1653 523.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 10733 2194 489.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 7816 2155 362.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 10312 3402 303.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 15730 3638 432.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 12444 2914 427.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 8418 1790 470.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 3485 1644 212.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 2360 1735 136.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)