iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 993 1753 56.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 4426 7737 57.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.4.0 Tryout Geekbench 5.4.4 Tryout

System Information

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Operating System macOS 11.3 (Build 20E232) macOS 12.3.1 (Build 21E258)
Model iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Late 2020)
Processor Intel Core i5-8600 @ 3.10 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores
Apple M1 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 Apple M1
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 3 128 KB x 1
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 3 64.0 KB x 1
L2 Cache 256 KB x 3 4.00 MB x 1
L3 Cache 9.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1 MacBookAir10,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1554.100.64.0.0
Memory 8.00 GB DDR4 16.00 GB

Single-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 993 1753 56.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 1060 2805 37.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 968 1497 64.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 1067 1380 77.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 928 1638 56.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 849 1720 49.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 960 1414 67.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1023 1636 62.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1002 1804 55.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 981 1772 55.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 1053 1621 65.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 953 1830 52.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1259 1778 70.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 304 1431 21.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 638 2250 28.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1043 1996 52.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1996 3232 61.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 1942 2490 78.0%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1122 2591 43.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 981 1440 68.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 978 1591 61.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1136 1172 96.9%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) MacBook Air (Late 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 4426 7737 57.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
AES-XTS 3605 10138 35.6%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Compression 4181 5988 69.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Compression 5647 7123 79.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Navigation 2174 5529 39.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HTML5 4428 8004 55.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
SQLite 5192 7037 73.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 4440 7144 62.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Text Rendering 3675 8092 45.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Clang 4554 8647 52.7%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Camera 4784 7221 66.3%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 4823 7608 63.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 6586 9101 72.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 5478 7924 69.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Face Detection 5866 10052 58.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 4675 9914 47.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 6028 12702 47.5%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
HDR 9466 12607 75.1%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 8601 14378 59.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 4785 6998 68.4%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 2437 4894 49.8%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1872 4656 40.2%
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2020)