MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Single-Core Score 1742 1196 145.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Multi-Core Score 7713 8441 91.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.1.1 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Operating System macOS 11.4 (Build 20F71) macOS 12.6 (Build 21G115)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
Processor Apple M1 @ 3.19 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID Apple M1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 128 KB x 1 32.0 KB x 8
L1 Data Cache 64.0 KB x 1 32.0 KB x 8
L2 Cache 4.00 MB x 1 256 KB x 8
L3 Cache 16.0 MB x 1
Motherboard MacBookAir10,1 Acidanthera Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Acidanthera 1731.100.125.0.0
Memory 16.00 GB 64.00 GB RAM

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Single-Core Score 1742 1196 145.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
AES-XTS 2773 1193 232.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Compression 1530 1279 119.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Compression 1379 1180 116.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Navigation 1754 1123 156.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HTML5 1659 1097 151.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
SQLite 1422 1152 123.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
PDF Rendering 1602 1198 133.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Rendering 1802 1206 149.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Clang 1684 1185 142.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Camera 1543 1236 124.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
N-Body Physics 1818 1188 153.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1774 1468 120.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Gaussian Blur 1434 361 397.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Face Detection 2261 746 303.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Horizon Detection 1991 1189 167.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Inpainting 3250 2347 138.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HDR 2489 2269 109.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Ray Tracing 2586 1260 205.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Structure from Motion 1413 1257 112.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Speech Recognition 1601 1383 115.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Machine Learning 1165 1405 82.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) Difference
Multi-Core Score 7713 8441 91.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
AES-XTS 10072 5717 176.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Compression 6031 10264 58.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Compression 7251 10550 68.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Navigation 5756 4266 134.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HTML5 7774 7915 98.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
SQLite 7238 9509 76.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
PDF Rendering 6951 8243 84.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Text Rendering 7975 6832 116.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Clang 8194 10332 79.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Camera 7093 8675 81.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
N-Body Physics 7686 9103 84.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Rigid Body Physics 9055 15323 59.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Gaussian Blur 7889 9802 80.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Face Detection 10118 11233 90.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Horizon Detection 9884 9053 109.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Image Inpainting 12804 11684 109.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
HDR 12752 16670 76.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Ray Tracing 14563 14586 99.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Structure from Motion 6815 9889 68.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Speech Recognition 4897 4195 116.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)
 
Machine Learning 4683 2831 165.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019)