MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 663 1171 56.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 1315 3836 34.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
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System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Operating System macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287) macOS 11.0.1 (Build 20B28)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Intel Core i5-1030NG7 @ 1.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 48.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 512 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4.00 MB x 1 6.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 1554.50.3.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.12561.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB LPDDR3 8.00 GB LPDDR4X

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 663 1171 56.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 759 3626 20.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 366 907 40.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 632 998 63.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 596 892 66.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 572 919 62.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 679 959 70.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 758 1018 74.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 760 1016 74.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 735 950 77.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 752 1059 71.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 384 984 39.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1014 1237 82.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 238 1027 23.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 436 1116 39.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 736 937 78.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1323 1933 68.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 1447 1925 75.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 840 1499 56.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 765 982 77.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 613 961 63.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 983 1106 88.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 1315 3836 34.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 2501 7747 32.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 1558 3632 42.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 1332 3586 37.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 1380 3222 42.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 913 3080 29.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 1178 3595 32.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1163 3712 31.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1320 3860 34.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 1145 3619 31.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 1208 3507 34.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 965 4045 23.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1097 5717 19.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 972 3267 29.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 1455 4162 35.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1425 3729 38.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 2323 4898 47.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 1694 5984 28.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1885 4968 37.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1223 2761 44.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 910 2407 37.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 990 2456 40.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)