MacBook Air (Late 2018) vs iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)

Geekbench Scores

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3496 5506
Multi-Core Score 6184 18433
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System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Operating System macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287) macOS 10.13.1 (Build 17B1003)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Processor Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads 		Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 4096 KB 8192 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3
BIOS Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0) Apple Inc. IM183.88Z.0151.B00.1708080034
Memory 16.00 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 40.00 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Single-Core Score 3496 5506
AES 2481
1.87 GB/sec 		3494
2.63 GB/sec
LZMA 2141
3.34 MB/sec 		5167
8.07 MB/sec
JPEG 3396
27.3 Mpixels/sec 		5707
45.9 Mpixels/sec
Canny 3113
43.2 Mpixels/sec 		5266
73.0 Mpixels/sec
Lua 3217
3.31 MB/sec 		5471
5.62 MB/sec
Dijkstra 3032
2.05 MTE/sec 		6202
4.20 MTE/sec
SQLite 2921
81.0 Krows/sec 		5011
138.9 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 2677
12.2 MB/sec 		4879
22.2 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 3518
3.19 MElements/sec 		6529
5.92 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 2996
93.6 Mpixels/sec 		5067
158.3 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 4175
110.9 Mpixels/sec 		5767
153.2 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 5307
364.9 functions/sec 		9411
647.1 functions/sec
Camera 4312
12.0 images/sec 		6076
16.8 images/sec
SGEMM 4084
86.3 Gflops 		5993
126.7 Gflops
SFFT 4344
10.8 Gflops 		5929
14.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 4084
3.05 Mpairs/sec 		5483
4.10 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 3654
533.6 Kpixels/sec 		5110
746.3 Kpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 4892
14322.5 FPS 		6326
18520.5 FPS
HDR 4351
15.8 Mpixels/sec 		6821
24.7 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4496
78.8 Mpixels/sec 		5925
103.8 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 3474
29.7 Words/sec 		6497
55.6 Words/sec
Face Detection 3340
975.6 Ksubwindows/sec 		5467
1.60 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 3124
8.66 GB/sec 		4575
12.7 GB/sec
Memory Latency 3860
112.2 ns 		6438
67.2 ns
Memory Bandwidth 3075
16.4 GB/sec 		3639
19.4 GB/sec

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2018) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Multi-Core Score 6184 18433
AES 4287
3.23 GB/sec 		11232
8.46 GB/sec
LZMA 6437
10.1 MB/sec 		23175
36.2 MB/sec
JPEG 7926
63.8 Mpixels/sec 		27129
218.3 Mpixels/sec
Canny 7244
100.5 Mpixels/sec 		19971
276.9 Mpixels/sec
Lua 5264
5.41 MB/sec 		21844
22.4 MB/sec
Dijkstra 9981
6.75 MTE/sec 		17648
11.9 MTE/sec
SQLite 5745
159.3 Krows/sec 		18462
511.8 Krows/sec
HTML5 Parse 5583
25.3 MB/sec 		19892
90.3 MB/sec
HTML5 DOM 7319
6.63 MElements/sec 		22377
20.3 MElements/sec
Histogram Equalization 6545
204.5 Mpixels/sec 		21584
674.4 Mpixels/sec
PDF Rendering 7147
189.9 Mpixels/sec 		20225
537.3 Mpixels/sec
LLVM 10596
728.6 functions/sec 		44121
3.03 Kfunctions/sec
Camera 7831
21.7 images/sec 		27870
77.3 images/sec
SGEMM 5787
122.3 Gflops 		13546
286.3 Gflops
SFFT 7274
18.1 Gflops 		25992
64.8 Gflops
N-Body Physics 5382
4.02 Mpairs/sec 		24264
18.1 Mpairs/sec
Ray Tracing 6175
901.7 Kpixels/sec 		23213
3.39 Mpixels/sec
Rigid Body Physics 9148
26779.7 FPS 		32594
95416.3 FPS
HDR 7670
27.8 Mpixels/sec 		24386
88.4 Mpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5329
93.4 Mpixels/sec 		24049
421.3 Mpixels/sec
Speech Recognition 5910
50.6 Words/sec 		12717
108.8 Words/sec
Face Detection 7700
2.25 Msubwindows/sec 		25502
7.45 Msubwindows/sec
Memory Copy 4409
12.2 GB/sec 		4675
13.0 GB/sec
Memory Latency 2998
144.4 ns 		6324
68.5 ns
Memory Bandwidth 4401
23.5 GB/sec 		3407
18.2 GB/sec

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