iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1224 1740 70.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 4777 7673 62.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.3.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 10.15.7 (Build 19H2) macOS 11.4 (Build 20F71)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Apple M1 @ 3.19 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9 Apple M1
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 4 128 KB x 1
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 4 64.0 KB x 1
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4 4.00 MB x 1
L3 Cache 8.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3 MacBookAir10,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 183.0.0.0.0
Memory 32.00 GB DDR4 8.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1224 1740 70.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 1664 2822 59.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 1071 1502 71.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 1110 1377 80.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 1115 1750 63.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 1042 1665 62.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 1108 1424 77.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1155 1600 72.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1140 1809 63.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 1110 1603 69.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 1196 1593 75.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1168 1805 64.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1398 1765 79.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 1122 1429 78.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 1207 2254 53.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1144 1992 57.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 2339 3182 73.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 2192 2476 88.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1571 2586 60.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1078 1416 76.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1249 1592 78.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1302 1198 108.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 4777 7673 62.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 4877 10160 48.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 5367 5999 89.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 5301 7268 72.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 3206 5675 56.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 4145 7691 53.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 4706 7219 65.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 4716 6921 68.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 4242 8057 52.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 4968 7952 62.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 4595 7261 63.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 5226 7584 68.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 7501 8947 83.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 4803 7927 60.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 5623 9756 57.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 5207 9865 52.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 6992 12339 56.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 9397 12676 74.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 7765 14435 53.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 4672 6840 68.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 2902 4848 59.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 2342 4665 50.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)