iMac (27-inch Late 2009) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 499 1136 43.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 1774 2592 68.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.5.0 Pro Geekbench 5.1.1 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G14042) macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287)
Model iMac (27-inch Late 2009) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Processor Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Intel Core i5-1030NG7 @ 1.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 4 32.0 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 4 48.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 512 KB x 4
L3 Cache 8.00 MB x 1 6.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2268DAE Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 63.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB DDR3 16.00 GB LPDDR4

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 499 1136 43.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 56 3538 1.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 659 865 76.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 540 937 57.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 506 855 59.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 424 855 49.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 472 939 50.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 543 1031 52.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 434 959 45.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 500 947 52.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 525 1057 49.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 439 918 47.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 684 1199 57.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 478 941 50.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 571 1096 52.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 519 919 56.5%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 977 1938 50.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 945 1879 50.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 605 1413 42.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 423 987 42.9%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 600 940 63.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 258 1104 23.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Late 2009) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 1774 2592 68.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 215 8314 2.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 2724 2748 99.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 2181 2702 80.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 1351 2576 52.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 1560 1691 92.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 1770 2015 87.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1756 2191 80.1%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1437 2238 64.2%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 1928 2008 96.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 1746 1974 88.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1923 2476 77.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 3004 3276 91.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 1742 1874 93.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 2293 2561 89.5%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 2127 2375 89.6%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 2951 3323 88.8%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 3751 3932 95.4%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 2626 3326 79.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1540 1925 80.0%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1396 1618 86.3%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 666 1596 41.7%
iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)