iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) vs MacBook Air (Late 2018)

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2018) Difference
Single-Core Score 919 737 124.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Multi-Core Score 3230 1350 239.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
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System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 12.6.3 (Build 21G419) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.30 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6.00 MB x 1 4.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D iMac17,1 Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 499.40.2.0.0 Apple Inc. 220.270.99.0.0 (iBridge: 16.16.6571.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB DDR3 16.00 GB LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2018) Difference
Single-Core Score 919 737 124.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
AES-XTS 955 963 99.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Compression 914 623 146.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Compression 951 858 110.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Navigation 903 661 136.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HTML5 816 657 124.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
SQLite 871 766 113.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
PDF Rendering 977 776 125.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Rendering 891 780 114.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Clang 906 751 120.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Camera 959 799 120.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
N-Body Physics 854 464 184.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1119 931 120.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Gaussian Blur 272 264 103.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Face Detection 565 477 118.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Horizon Detection 926 757 122.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Inpainting 1756 1168 150.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HDR 1715 1533 111.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Ray Tracing 1269 737 172.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Structure from Motion 906 771 117.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Speech Recognition 926 562 164.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Machine Learning 1094 810 135.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2018) Difference
Multi-Core Score 3230 1350 239.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
AES-XTS 4348 2603 167.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Compression 2909 1446 201.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Compression 3453 1310 263.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Navigation 2319 1510 153.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HTML5 2444 931 262.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
SQLite 3227 1142 282.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
PDF Rendering 3287 1206 272.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Rendering 2997 1234 242.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Clang 3380 1149 294.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Camera 3364 1231 273.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
N-Body Physics 2790 1304 214.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Rigid Body Physics 4131 1749 236.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Gaussian Blur 3396 1084 313.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Face Detection 3289 1406 233.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Horizon Detection 3255 1413 230.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Inpainting 5193 2101 247.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HDR 6241 2235 279.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Ray Tracing 5247 1554 337.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Structure from Motion 3362 1034 325.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Speech Recognition 2122 996 213.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Machine Learning 1947 1124 173.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 

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