Apple MacBook Air 13" i5 1.6 (2018)
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Apple MacBook Air 11" i5 1.6 (Early 2015)

Product comparison with benchmarks

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Device Information

Gold, Silver, Space Grey Colours Silver
1,199 $ / 1,349 € Price from 899 $ / 999 €
Q4/2018 Release date Q1/2015

Processor

Intel Core i5-8210Y Name Intel Core i5-5250U
Intel Manufacturer Intel
2 / 4 Cores / Threads 2 / 4
1.60 (3.60) GHz Frequency 1.60 (2.70) GHz
14 nm Structure 14 nm
Amber Lake Y Architecture Broadwell U
Q1/2019 Release date Q1/2015

Memory

8 - 16 GB Memory Size 4 - 8 GB
LPDDR3 2133 Memory Type LPDDR3 1600
-- Memory Bandwith --
No Upgradeable? No

Graphic card

Intel UHD Graphics 617 Name Intel HD Graphics 6000
Internal Type Internal
0.30 (1.05) GHz Frequency 0.30 (1.00) GHz
1.50 GB Memory Size 1.50 GB
LPDDR3 Memory Type LPDDR3
14 nm Structure 14 nm
Q4/2018 Release date Q1/2015

Screen

13.3 inch Size 11.6 inch
2560 x 1600 (227 ppi) Resolution 1366 x 768 (135 ppi)
16:10 Ratio 16:9
IPS Technology TN
400 nits Max. Brightness 300 nits
No HDR support No
No Always On Display No
5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 1. external display 3840 x 2160
4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz 2. external display --
-- 3. external display --

Storage

128 - 1,536 GB Size 128 - 512 GB
SSD Type SSD
PCIe Interface PCIe
No Upgradeable? No
-- 2. drive --
-- Card reader --

Battery

Lithium-Polymer Type Lithium-Polymer
50.00 Wh Capacity 38.00 Wh
13.00 h Battery life 10.00 h
USB-C @ 30 W Charging MagSafe 2 @ 45 W

Network

802.11ac Wireless LAN 802.11ac
-- LAN --
Bluetooth 4.2 Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.0
-- Cellular --

Camera

0.9 MP, 720p Front camera 0.9 MP, 720p
-- Back camera 1 --
-- Back camera 2 --
-- Back camera 3 --

Ports

-- HDMI --
-- DVI --
-- DistplayPort 1x Mini DisplayPort
2x USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB 3.1 Gen 2) Thunderbolt 1x Mini DisplayPort (Thunderbolt 2)
-- USB 2x USB 3.0
2x (Thunderbolt 3) USB-C --
-- Lightning --
-- Other --

Dimensions / Housing

16 mm Height 17 mm
304 mm Width 300 mm
212 mm Depth 192 mm
1,250 g Weight 1,080 g
Aluminum Housing Material Aluminum
-- Glas Type --
-- IP Protection Class --

Additional data

A1932 Part-no A1465
MacBookAir8,1 Ident-No: MacBookAir7,1
3184 EMC-No: 2924
TouchID Security features --
Link to manufacturer data sheet Link to manufacturer

Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 6 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Cinebench R23 - Single Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




Cinebench R23 - Multi Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS) - FP32 (TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS. TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second. The larger this number, the faster the graphics card is.




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