iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) vs MacBook Air (Late 2018)

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (Late 2018) Difference
Single-Core Score 691 776 89.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Multi-Core Score 1979 1664 118.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
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System Information

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Operating System macOS 10.13.6 (Build 17G13035) macOS 10.14.6 (Build 18G3020)
Model iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (Late 2018)
Processor Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores 		Intel Core i5-8210Y @ 1.60 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 4 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 32.0 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6.00 MB x 1 4.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B5BF58194151B Apple Inc. Mac-827FAC58A8FDFA22 MacBookAir8,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 87.0.0.0.0 Apple Inc. 1037.80.53.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.13050.0.0,0)
Memory 4.00 GB RAM 16.00 GB LPDDR3

Single-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (Late 2018) Difference
Single-Core Score 691 776 89.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
AES-XTS 769 784 98.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Compression 808 627 128.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Compression 678 544 124.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Navigation 703 826 85.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HTML5 520 670 77.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
SQLite 614 857 71.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
PDF Rendering 615 835 73.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Rendering 590 870 67.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Clang 610 855 71.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Camera 669 872 76.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
N-Body Physics 721 552 130.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Rigid Body Physics 887 1087 81.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Gaussian Blur 669 259 258.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Face Detection 734 550 133.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Horizon Detection 718 840 85.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Inpainting 1309 1373 95.3%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HDR 1273 1604 79.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Ray Tracing 864 1096 78.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Structure from Motion 531 829 64.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Speech Recognition 778 622 125.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Machine Learning 528 1020 51.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 

Multi-Core Performance

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011) MacBook Air (Late 2018) Difference
Multi-Core Score 1979 1664 118.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
AES-XTS 2378 2393 99.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Compression 2250 1595 141.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Compression 2127 1703 124.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Navigation 1602 1859 86.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HTML5 1582 1242 127.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
SQLite 1865 1499 124.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
PDF Rendering 1729 1583 109.2%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Text Rendering 1521 1567 97.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Clang 1896 1504 126.1%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Camera 2002 1486 134.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
N-Body Physics 2127 1519 140.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Rigid Body Physics 2806 2346 119.6%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Gaussian Blur 2308 1434 160.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Face Detection 2339 1745 134.0%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Horizon Detection 2150 1681 127.9%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Image Inpainting 3359 2631 127.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
HDR 3812 2794 136.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Ray Tracing 2885 2300 125.4%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Structure from Motion 1595 1311 121.7%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Speech Recognition 1563 1145 136.5%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 
Machine Learning 1142 1527 74.8%
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
 
MacBook Air (Late 2018)
 

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