iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) vs MacBook Air (Late 2020)

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 809 1539 52.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 2781 6282 44.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
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System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 11.2.2 (Build 20D80) macOS 11.6 (Build 20G165)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Apple M1 @ 3.20 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 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 6.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-77F17D7DA9285301 iMac18,2 MacBookAir10,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 429.80.1.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB DDR4 8.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 809 1539 52.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 844 2604 32.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 814 1450 56.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 852 1359 62.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 810 1635 49.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 682 1547 44.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 774 1387 55.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 827 1588 52.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 781 1734 45.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 738 951 77.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 859 1461 58.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 554 1644 33.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1017 1737 58.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 243 1253 19.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 884 1009 87.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 843 1681 50.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1579 2599 60.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 1568 2190 71.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 888 2324 38.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 852 1357 62.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 816 1203 67.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 954 1149 83.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 2781 6282 44.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 3751 8378 44.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 2381 4563 52.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 3000 6429 46.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 1957 5128 38.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 2497 7146 34.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 2762 5297 52.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 2530 6319 40.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 2870 7135 40.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 2462 5556 44.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 2999 4822 62.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 2541 7058 36.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 3481 8151 42.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 3006 7397 40.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 3188 7509 42.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 2642 5201 50.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 4256 11731 36.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 4984 10316 48.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 4769 12235 39.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 2635 6021 43.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1795 4142 43.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1923 3669 52.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Retina Mid 2017)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 

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