MacBook Air (M5)
Scores
Single-core
4,168
+12.0% over MacBook Air (M4)
- Measured average
- Sample size not stated
- Retrieved 27 October 2026 from EveryMac, unsourced placeholder
Multi-core
16,934
+15.3% over MacBook Air (M4)
- Measured average
- Sample size not stated
- Retrieved 27 October 2026 from EveryMac, unsourced placeholder
GPU (Metal)
No data
Keynote claim, measured
Not measurable with Geekbench
“Combined with an up-to-10-core GPU with a powerful Neural Accelerator in each core, MacBook Air with M5 delivers up to 4x faster performance for AI tasks than MacBook Air with M4, and up to 9.5x faster than MacBook Air with M1.”
AI workload figure (GPU Neural Accelerators or Neural Engine); Geekbench 6 CPU and Metal do not measure it.
MacBook Air (M5) announcement, March 2026, Apple Newsroom, MacBook Air (M5) announcement, March 2026
MacBook Air single-core, by generation
| Device | Single-core | Change over the previous generation |
|---|---|---|
| MacBook Air (Early 2008) | No data | First in this line |
| MacBook Air (Mid 2009) | No data | |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (Late 2010) | 213 | No data |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2011) | 434 | +103.8% |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2012) | 495 | +14.1% |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2013) | 708 | +43.0% |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (Early 2014) | 745 | +5.2% |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (Early 2015) | 784 | +5.2% |
| MacBook Air 13-inch (2017) | No data | |
| MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018) | No data | |
| MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2019) | No data | |
| MacBook Air (2020, Intel) | 1,142 | No data |
| MacBook Air (M1), 2020 | 2,351 | +105.9% |
| MacBook Air (M2), 2022 | 2,560 | +8.9% |
| MacBook Air (M3), 2024 | 3,066 | +19.8% |
| MacBook Air (M4), 2025 | 3,721 | +21.4% |
| MacBook Air (M5), 2026, this device | 4,168 | +12.0% |
Against other devices
- MacBook Air 13-inch (Early 2015)
5.32 timesslower
Single-core 784 vs 4,168. Multi-core 11 times slower, 1,516 vs 16,934.
No data
No single-core score for MacBook Air (Early 2008). No multi-core score for MacBook Air (Early 2008).
about 1.13 timesfaster
Single-core about 4,695 vs 4,168. Multi-core about 1.35 times slower, about 12,521 vs 16,934.
1.01 timesslower
Single-core 4,116 vs 4,168. Multi-core 1.11 times slower, 15,280 vs 16,934.