MacBook Air (Early 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Single-Core Score 1136 1272 89.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Multi-Core Score 2592 9290 27.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
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System Information

MacBook Air (Early 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Operating System macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G103)
Model MacBook Air (Early 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Processor Intel Core i5-1030NG7 @ 1.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 12
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 8
L1 Data Cache 48.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 8
L2 Cache 512 KB x 4 256 KB x 8
L3 Cache 6.00 MB x 1 16.0 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1 Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 1.0
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 220.270.76.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB LPDDR4 64.00 GB DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Early 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Single-Core Score 1136 1272 89.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
AES-XTS 3538 1285 275.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Compression 865 1387 62.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Compression 937 1270 73.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Navigation 855 1354 63.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HTML5 855 1219 70.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
SQLite 939 1274 73.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
PDF Rendering 1031 1248 82.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Rendering 959 1233 77.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Clang 947 1200 78.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Camera 1057 1246 84.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
N-Body Physics 918 1226 74.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1199 1405 85.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Gaussian Blur 941 413 227.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Face Detection 1096 768 142.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Horizon Detection 919 1318 69.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Inpainting 1938 2620 74.0%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HDR 1879 2508 74.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Ray Tracing 1413 1179 119.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Structure from Motion 987 1318 74.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Speech Recognition 940 1485 63.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Machine Learning 1104 1342 82.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Early 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Multi-Core Score 2592 9290 27.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
AES-XTS 8314 6796 122.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Compression 2748 11534 23.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Compression 2702 11435 23.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Navigation 2576 5111 50.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HTML5 1691 8928 18.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
SQLite 2015 10305 19.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
PDF Rendering 2191 8617 25.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Rendering 2238 7863 28.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Clang 2008 10839 18.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Camera 1974 9357 21.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
N-Body Physics 2476 9758 25.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Rigid Body Physics 3276 15119 21.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Gaussian Blur 1874 10050 18.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Face Detection 2561 11848 21.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Horizon Detection 2375 10038 23.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Inpainting 3323 13325 24.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HDR 3932 18729 21.0%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Ray Tracing 3326 14402 23.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Structure from Motion 1925 10606 18.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Speech Recognition 1618 4982 32.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Machine Learning 1596 3427 46.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)