MacBook Air (Early 2020) Mac mini (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1079 1746 61.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 2393 7678 31.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.2.0 Tryout Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Early 2020) Mac mini (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 10.15.6 (Build 19G2021) macOS 11.3.1 (Build 20E241)
Model MacBook Air (Early 2020) Mac mini (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Core i3-1000NG4 @ 1.10 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Apple M1 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5 Apple M1
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 128 KB x 1
L1 Data Cache 48.0 KB x 2 64.0 KB x 1
L2 Cache 512 KB x 2 4.00 MB x 1
L3 Cache 4.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1 Macmini9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.147.4.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.16610.0.0,0)
Memory 8.00 GB LPDDR4X 16.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Early 2020) Mac mini (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1079 1746 61.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 3426 2777 123.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 789 1522 51.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 899 1381 65.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 843 1765 47.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 826 1659 49.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 919 1425 64.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 963 1609 59.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 938 1779 52.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Clang 876 1680 52.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Camera 990 1575 62.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 819 1818 45.0%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1153 1771 65.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 915 1436 63.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 1046 2262 46.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 877 1997 43.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1744 3250 53.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HDR 1798 2495 72.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1363 2593 52.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 967 1423 68.0%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 813 1600 50.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1021 1179 86.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Early 2020) Mac mini (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 2393 7678 31.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 6823 10130 67.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 2099 5951 35.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 2277 7217 31.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 2156 5642 38.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 1616 7861 20.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 1992 7343 27.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 2176 6938 31.4%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 2035 7977 25.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Clang 2004 8063 24.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Camera 2043 6913 29.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1920 7806 24.6%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 3209 8984 35.7%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 1862 7838 23.8%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 2355 10150 23.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 2228 9701 23.0%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 3213 12805 25.1%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
HDR 4036 12492 32.3%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 3366 14319 23.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 2002 6849 29.2%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1687 4894 34.5%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1936 4738 40.9%
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Mac mini (Late 2020)