MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 689 1726 39.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 1442 7665 18.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.5.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.4.0 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 12.7.3 (Build 21H1015) macOS 11.2.3 (Build 20D91)
Model MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Core i5-5250U @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Apple M1 @ 3.18 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 Apple M1
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 128 KB x 1
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 64.0 KB x 1
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 4.00 MB x 1
L3 Cache 3.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-9F18E312C5C2BF0B MacBookAir7,1 MacBookAir10,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 489.0.0.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB DDR3 8.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 689 1726 39.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 957 2642 36.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 676 1483 45.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 685 1379 49.7%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 673 1730 38.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 579 1626 35.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 629 1404 44.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 650 1592 40.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 643 1809 35.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 545 1675 32.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 641 1579 40.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 544 1819 29.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 870 1774 49.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 545 1431 38.1%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 712 2256 31.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 700 1964 35.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1243 3193 38.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 1336 2473 54.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 923 2547 36.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 659 1417 46.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 574 1592 36.1%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 678 1190 57.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 1442 7665 18.8%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 1873 10208 18.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 1628 6045 26.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 1554 7029 22.1%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 1456 5699 25.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 1045 7661 13.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 1261 7227 17.4%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1414 6860 20.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1265 7911 16.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 1388 8154 17.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 1239 7051 17.6%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1253 7735 16.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 2064 8958 23.0%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 1294 7849 16.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 1499 10035 14.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1523 9819 15.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 2172 12642 17.2%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 2656 12708 20.9%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 2078 14368 14.5%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1307 6774 19.3%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1114 4905 22.7%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1067 4758 22.4%
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)