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.
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Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 vs. MacBook Pro vs. Mac Mini Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Monitor OS Kernel Compiler File-System Screen Resolution MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores) Apple MacBook Air Apple SSD 2 x 2048 DDR3-1600MHz 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F Intel HD 5000 1024MB Color LCD OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067) 12.4.1 (x86_64) GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.1 Journaled HFS+ 1366x768 Intel Core i5 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores) Apple MacBook Pro Intel 5 2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz 120GB OCZ-AGILITY2 Intel HD + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 288MB OS X 10.8.4 12.4.0 (x86_64) Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3 1440x900 Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores) Apple Mac mini Intel 6 2 x 1024 DDR3-1333MHz 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 Intel HD 3000 288MB Acer P243W 1920x1200 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - MacBook Air 2013: --build=i686-apple-darwin11 --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --enable-llvm=/private/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.15~25/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local --enable-werror --host=x86_64-apple-darwin11 --mandir=/share/man --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin11- --program-prefix=llvm- --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --target=i686-apple-darwin11 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib - 2011 MacBook Pro: --build=i686-apple-darwin11 --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --enable-llvm=/private/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2336.11~182/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local --enable-werror --host=x86_64-apple-darwin11 --mandir=/share/man --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin11- --program-prefix=llvm- --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --target=i686-apple-darwin11 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib - 2012 Mac Mini: --build=i686-apple-darwin11 --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --enable-llvm=/private/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2336.11~182/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local --enable-werror --host=x86_64-apple-darwin11 --mandir=/share/man --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin11- --program-prefix=llvm- --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --target=i686-apple-darwin11 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib
Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 vs. MacBook Pro vs. Mac Mini xonotic: 800 x 600 - Ultra nexuiz: 1366 x 768 - Yes - Off xonotic: 800 x 600 - High xonotic: 1024 x 768 - Ultra xonotic: 1024 x 768 - High urbanterror: 1366 x 768 scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply nexuiz: 800 x 600 - Yes - Off nexuiz: 1024 x 768 - Yes - Off xonotic: 1366 x 768 - Ultra himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver xonotic: 800 x 600 - Low xonotic: 1366 x 768 - High xonotic: 1024 x 768 - Low scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization xonotic: 1366 x 768 - Low scimark2: Composite scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform fhourstones: Complex Connect-4 Solving build-imagemagick: Time To Compile openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance build-php: Time To Compile compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test scimark2: Monte Carlo c-ray: Total Time primesieve: 1e12 Prime Number Generation scimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation urbanterror: 800 x 600 clomp: Static OMP Speedup postmark: Disk Transaction Performance MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 40.06 16.48 49.65 38.70 45.63 52.67 1662.38 17.95 17.15 36.66 407.43 110.16 43.95 105.19 1802.27 98.55 1024.03 193.19 8656.33 81.27 22.73 64.51 6197 343.24 118.97 270.30 1119.05 53.90 0.53 1442 30.82 22.28 38.01 29.85 36.92 56.73 904.59 21.83 21.75 28.28 249.70 80.04 35.30 80.22 1159.52 79.03 740.35 141.24 7038.40 98.96 20.63 75.60 5455 375.69 129.36 278.50 1120.72 56.60 0.73 382 74.63 39.46 85.54 66.71 78.13 30 1374.72 32.92 29.95 47.42 243.00 134.11 58.44 130.33 1630.16 114.86 940.07 182.49 8570.60 83.08 24.57 64.22 6181 383.55 127.74 263.19 1129.45 53.53 0.65 125 OpenBenchmarking.org
Xonotic Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Ultra OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Ultra MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 40.06 30.82 74.63 MIN: 12 / MAX: 193 MIN: 9 / MAX: 154 MIN: 23 / MAX: 142
Nexuiz Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 16.48 22.28 39.46 MIN: 8 / MAX: 64 MIN: 10 / MAX: 109 MIN: 21 / MAX: 136
Xonotic Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: High OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: High MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.30, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 49.65 38.01 85.54 MIN: 16 / MAX: 203 MIN: 11 / MAX: 174 MIN: 24 / MAX: 159
Xonotic Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 38.70 29.85 66.71 MIN: 12 / MAX: 152 MIN: 8 / MAX: 115 MIN: 25 / MAX: 127
Xonotic Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.57, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 45.63 36.92 78.13 MIN: 16 / MAX: 158 MIN: 11 / MAX: 127 MIN: 40 / MAX: 139
Urban Terror Resolution: 1366 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 52.67 56.73 30.00
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 20.08, N = 4 SE +/- 0.82, N = 4 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 1662.38 904.59 1374.72
Nexuiz Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.42, N = 3 17.95 21.83 32.92 MIN: 9 / MAX: 73 MIN: 10 / MAX: 102 MIN: 19 / MAX: 75
Nexuiz Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 17.15 21.75 29.95 MIN: 9 / MAX: 70 MIN: 10 / MAX: 97 MIN: 16 / MAX: 62
Xonotic Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 11 22 33 44 55 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 36.66 28.28 47.42 MIN: 12 / MAX: 133 MIN: 9 / MAX: 93 MIN: 22 / MAX: 82
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 90 180 270 360 450 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.57, N = 3 407.43 249.70 243.00 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Xonotic Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.56, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.52, N = 3 110.16 80.04 134.11 MIN: 40 / MAX: 300 MIN: 28 / MAX: 201 MIN: 71 / MAX: 240
Xonotic Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 43.95 35.30 58.44 MIN: 16 / MAX: 142 MIN: 11 / MAX: 107 MIN: 25 / MAX: 92
Xonotic Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 105.19 80.22 130.33 MIN: 39 / MAX: 266 MIN: 28 / MAX: 203 MIN: 84 / MAX: 227
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 2.40, N = 4 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 SE +/- 18.73, N = 4 1802.27 1159.52 1630.16
Xonotic Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 98.55 79.03 114.86 MIN: 37 / MAX: 220 MIN: 26 / MAX: 213 MIN: 73 / MAX: 180
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 3.80, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 SE +/- 3.39, N = 4 1024.03 740.35 940.07
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 2.54, N = 4 SE +/- 1.06, N = 4 SE +/- 2.19, N = 4 193.19 141.24 182.49
Fhourstones Complex Connect-4 Solving OpenBenchmarking.org Kpos / sec, More Is Better Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 4.47, N = 3 SE +/- 2.83, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 3 8656.33 7038.40 8570.60 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 81.27 98.96 83.08
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 22.73 20.63 24.57 1. (CC) gcc options: -arch -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -lssl -lcrypto
Timed PHP Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 64.51 75.60 64.22 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pedantic -lpthread -lz -liconv -lm
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 8.41, N = 3 SE +/- 9.94, N = 3 6197 5455 6181 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -lpthread
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 0.09, N = 4 SE +/- 1.93, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 343.24 375.69 383.55
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.95, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 118.97 129.36 127.74 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Primesieve 1e12 Prime Number Generation OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 1.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 270.30 278.50 263.19 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fopenmp
SciMark Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 SE +/- 0.17, N = 4 SE +/- 0.27, N = 4 1119.05 1120.72 1129.45
Urban Terror Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 800 x 600 MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 22.97, N = 6 53.90 56.60 53.53
CLOMP Static OMP Speedup OpenBenchmarking.org Speedup, More Is Better CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 0.1643 0.3286 0.4929 0.6572 0.8215 SE +/- 0.03, N = 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 0.53 0.73 0.65 1. (CC) gcc options: --openmp -O3 -lm
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 13.31, N = 6 SE +/- 2.19, N = 3 1442 382 125 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
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