Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 vs. MacBook Pro vs. Mac Mini Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1024MB on OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. 2013 Apple MacBook Air compared to Mac Mini sandy bridge and 2011 macbook pro. MacBook Air 2013: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 2048 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F, Graphics: Intel HD 5000 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067), Kernel: 12.4.1 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 2011 MacBook Pro: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 5, Memory: 2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz, Disk: 120GB OCZ-AGILITY2, Graphics: Intel HD + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 288MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.8.4, Kernel: 12.4.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 2012 Mac Mini: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1024 DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: OS X 10.8.4, Kernel: 12.4.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 52.67 |================================================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 56.73 |===================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 30.00 |============================ Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 53.90 |================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 56.60 |===================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 53.53 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 22.73 |================================================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 20.63 |============================================= 2012 Mac Mini .... 24.57 |===================================================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 270.30 |================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 278.50 |==================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 263.19 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 118.97 |================================================ 2011 MacBook Pro . 129.36 |==================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 127.74 |=================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 64.51 |============================================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 75.60 |===================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 64.22 |============================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 81.27 |============================================ 2011 MacBook Pro . 98.96 |===================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 83.08 |============================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 6197 |====================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 5455 |================================================ 2012 Mac Mini .... 6181 |====================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 407.43 |==================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 249.70 |================================ 2012 Mac Mini .... 243.00 |=============================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 1119.05 |=================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 1120.72 |=================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 1129.45 |=================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 1802.27 |=================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 1159.52 |================================= 2012 Mac Mini .... 1630.16 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 1662.38 |=================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 904.59 |============================ 2012 Mac Mini .... 1374.72 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 193.19 |==================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 141.24 |====================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 182.49 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 343.24 |=============================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 375.69 |=================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 383.55 |==================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 1024.03 |=================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 740.35 |===================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 940.07 |=============================================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 8656.33 |=================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 7038.40 |========================================= 2012 Mac Mini .... 8570.60 |================================================== CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 0.53 |======================================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 0.73 |====================================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 0.65 |================================================ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 36.66 |========================================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 28.28 |================================ 2012 Mac Mini .... 47.42 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 38.70 |=============================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 29.85 |======================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 66.71 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 40.06 |============================ 2011 MacBook Pro . 30.82 |====================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 74.63 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 43.95 |======================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 35.30 |================================ 2012 Mac Mini .... 58.44 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 45.63 |=============================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 36.92 |========================= 2012 Mac Mini .... 78.13 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 49.65 |=============================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 38.01 |======================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 85.54 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 98.55 |============================================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 79.03 |==================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 114.86 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 105.19 |========================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 80.22 |================================ 2012 Mac Mini .... 130.33 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 110.16 |=========================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 80.04 |=============================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 134.11 |==================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 16.48 |====================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 22.28 |============================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 39.46 |===================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 17.15 |============================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 21.75 |====================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 29.95 |===================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 17.95 |============================= 2011 MacBook Pro . 21.83 |=================================== 2012 Mac Mini .... 32.92 |===================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better MacBook Air 2013 . 1442 |====================================================== 2011 MacBook Pro . 382 |============== 2012 Mac Mini .... 125 |=====