MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1740 1216 143.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 7701 8679 88.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout Geekbench 5.4.2 Tryout

System Information

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
Operating System macOS 11.4 (Build 20F71) macOS 12.0.1 (Build 21A559)
Model MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
Processor Apple M1 @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores
Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80 GHz
1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
Processor ID Apple M1 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 5
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 Apple Inc. Mac-CFF7D910A743CAAF iMac20,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1715.40.15.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.10548.0.0,0)
Memory 16.00 GB 64.00 GB DDR4

Single-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 1740 1216 143.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
AES-XTS 2763 1249 221.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Text Compression 1491 1281 116.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Image Compression 1380 1257 109.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Navigation 1741 1114 156.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
HTML5 1666 1042 159.9%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
SQLite 1421 1161 122.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 1602 1277 125.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Text Rendering 1801 1227 146.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Clang 1679 1222 137.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Camera 1587 1239 128.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 1815 1226 148.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1772 1475 120.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 1431 360 397.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Face Detection 2254 741 304.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1988 1235 161.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 3212 2468 130.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
HDR 2485 2365 105.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 2580 1294 199.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 1411 1264 111.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1594 1406 113.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1165 1393 83.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

MacBook Air (Late 2020) iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 7701 8679 88.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
AES-XTS 10070 5735 175.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Text Compression 6013 10875 55.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Image Compression 7268 11017 66.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Navigation 5686 4456 127.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
HTML5 7699 8729 88.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
SQLite 7288 9543 76.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 6985 8409 83.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Text Rendering 8046 7207 111.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Clang 7956 10376 76.7%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Camera 7234 8570 84.4%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 7765 9568 81.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 8926 14917 59.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 7930 9243 85.8%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Face Detection 10022 11258 89.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 9923 9149 108.5%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 12625 12715 99.3%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
HDR 12697 16888 75.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 14494 14774 98.1%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 6902 9321 74.0%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 4876 4963 98.2%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)
 
Machine Learning 4665 2817 165.6%
MacBook Air (Late 2020)
 
iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020)