iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1156 1665 69.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 8631 7074 122.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.5.0 Tryout Geekbench 5.3.1 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 13.0.1 (Build 22A400) macOS 11.0 (Build 20A2411)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Core i9-10910 @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 10 Cores, 20 Threads
Apple M1 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 5 Apple processor
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 10 128 KB x 1
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 10 64.0 KB x 1
L2 Cache 256 KB x 10 4.00 MB x 1
L3 Cache 20.0 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-CFF7D910A743CAAF iMac20,1 MacBookAir10,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1916.40.8.0.0 (iBridge: 20.16.420.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB DDR4 16.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1156 1665 69.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 1205 2720 44.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 1290 1339 96.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 1210 1335 90.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 1137 1578 72.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 1050 1624 64.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 1086 1396 77.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1212 1601 75.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1067 1796 59.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 1207 1599 75.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 1195 1546 77.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1094 1401 78.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1417 1656 85.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 350 1361 25.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 711 2232 31.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1200 2002 59.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 2082 3036 68.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 2292 2484 92.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1340 2428 55.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1208 1382 87.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 973 1420 68.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1241 1158 107.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 8631 7074 122.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 5389 9180 58.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 11048 5250 210.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 10575 6954 152.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 4285 5239 81.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 9475 7089 133.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 10501 6368 164.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 7951 6415 123.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 7418 7235 102.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 11536 7514 153.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 8022 6486 123.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 9897 6664 148.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 15653 8677 180.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 9978 7694 129.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 9104 9624 94.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 8731 9357 93.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 12905 11884 108.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 14247 11798 120.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 15861 13930 113.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 10099 6515 155.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 4214 4245 99.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 2386 4296 55.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)