Apple MacBook Air 2020 improves performance by 63%

The new MacBook Air 2020 will land this week, including an updated Magic Keyboard, doubling the storage space, a new processor, and a starting price of $ 999. The first batch of MacBook Air 2020 evaluations have been released, we can first understand how the performance of the new MacBook Air and some preliminary benchmark results.

When Apple released the new MacBook Air 2020, Apple emphasized that it “doubled the CPU performance and increased the graphics performance by 80% to help you enhance everything from web browsing to playing games to editing videos. “

Jason Snell shared wonderful and detailed comments on today’s “Six Colors”, including some results obtained in the Geekbench test, not only the MacBook Air 2020 equipped with i5 processor and the previous MacBook Air, but MacBook models The comparison is also compared with the 2018 iPad Pro.

First of all, the single-core and multi-core performance of the MacBook Air 2020, which costs $ 1299, is indeed a good improvement over its predecessor …

The results are encouraging, with single-core performance increasing by 32% and multi-core performance testing by 63%.

But what’s more interesting is that the A12X of the iPad Pro 2018 surpassed Intel’s 10th generation Intel i5. The MacBook Air 2020 was close to the 2018 iPad Pro in single-core tests but was eliminated by the iPad Pro in multi-core tests, with a 73% increase in performance.

Jason Snell emphasized that even considering different platforms, the difference in power also indicates future developments because Apple is expected to release its first ARM processor-based Mac computer next year.

“Even if we accept that macOS and iPadOS are different monsters and that Macs built with Apple’s self-developed A-series processors may not necessarily score very high, it clearly shows that Apple’s state-of-the-art iPad processor 18 months ago is faster than today The mid-range MacBook Air processor is even faster. “

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