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 compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test c-ray: Total Time clomp: Static OMP Speedup fhourstones: Complex Connect-4 Solving himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver nexuiz: 800 x 600 - Yes - Off nexuiz: 1024 x 768 - Yes - Off nexuiz: 1366 x 768 - Yes - Off openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance postmark: Disk Transaction Performance primesieve: 1e12 Prime Number Generation scimark2: Composite scimark2: Monte Carlo scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization scimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-php: Time To Compile urbanterror: 800 x 600 urbanterror: 1366 x 768 xonotic: 800 x 600 - Low xonotic: 1024 x 768 - Low xonotic: 1366 x 768 - Low xonotic: 800 x 600 - High xonotic: 1024 x 768 - High xonotic: 1366 x 768 - High xonotic: 800 x 600 - Ultra xonotic: 1024 x 768 - Ultra xonotic: 1366 x 768 - Ultra MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini 6197 118.97 0.53 8656.33 407.43 17.95 17.15 16.48 22.73 1442 270.30 1024.03 343.24 193.19 1662.38 1802.27 1119.05 81.27 64.51 53.90 52.67 110.16 105.19 98.55 49.65 45.63 43.95 40.06 38.70 36.66 5455 129.36 0.73 7038.40 249.70 21.83 21.75 22.28 20.63 382 278.50 740.35 375.69 141.24 904.59 1159.52 1120.72 98.96 75.60 56.60 56.73 80.04 80.22 79.03 38.01 36.92 35.30 30.82 29.85 28.28 6181 127.74 0.65 8570.60 243.00 32.92 29.95 39.46 24.57 125 263.19 940.07 383.55 182.49 1374.72 1630.16 1129.45 83.08 64.22 53.53 30 134.11 130.33 114.86 85.54 78.13 58.44 74.63 66.71 47.42 OpenBenchmarking.org
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 9.94, N = 3 SE +/- 8.41, N = 3 6197 6181 5455 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -lpthread
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.95, N = 3 118.97 127.74 129.36 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
CLOMP Static OMP Speedup OpenBenchmarking.org Speedup, More Is Better CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup 2011 MacBook Pro 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 0.1643 0.3286 0.4929 0.6572 0.8215 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.03, N = 10 0.73 0.65 0.53 1. (CC) gcc options: --openmp -O3 -lm
Fhourstones Complex Connect-4 Solving OpenBenchmarking.org Kpos / sec, More Is Better Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 4.47, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 3 SE +/- 2.83, N = 3 8656.33 8570.60 7038.40 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
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
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 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.42, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 32.92 21.83 17.95 MIN: 19 / MAX: 75 MIN: 10 / MAX: 102 MIN: 9 / MAX: 73
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 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 29.95 21.75 17.15 MIN: 16 / MAX: 62 MIN: 10 / MAX: 97 MIN: 9 / MAX: 70
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 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 39.46 22.28 16.48 MIN: 21 / MAX: 136 MIN: 10 / MAX: 109 MIN: 8 / MAX: 64
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 24.57 22.73 20.63 1. (CC) gcc options: -arch -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -lssl -lcrypto
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
Primesieve 1e12 Prime Number Generation OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 1.35, N = 3 263.19 270.30 278.50 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fopenmp
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 3.80, N = 4 SE +/- 3.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 1024.03 940.07 740.35
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 1.93, N = 4 SE +/- 0.09, N = 4 383.55 375.69 343.24
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 2.54, N = 4 SE +/- 2.19, N = 4 SE +/- 1.06, N = 4 193.19 182.49 141.24
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 20.08, N = 4 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 SE +/- 0.82, N = 4 1662.38 1374.72 904.59
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 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 2.40, N = 4 SE +/- 18.73, N = 4 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 1802.27 1630.16 1159.52
SciMark Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.27, N = 4 SE +/- 0.17, N = 4 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 1129.45 1120.72 1119.05
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 2012 Mac Mini 2011 MacBook Pro 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 81.27 83.08 98.96
Timed PHP Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 64.22 64.51 75.60 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pedantic -lpthread -lz -liconv -lm
Urban Terror Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 800 x 600 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 22.97, N = 6 56.60 53.90 53.53
Urban Terror Resolution: 1366 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 2011 MacBook Pro MacBook Air 2013 2012 Mac Mini 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 56.73 52.67 30.00
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.52, N = 3 SE +/- 0.56, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 134.11 110.16 80.04 MIN: 71 / MAX: 240 MIN: 40 / MAX: 300 MIN: 28 / MAX: 201
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 130.33 105.19 80.22 MIN: 84 / MAX: 227 MIN: 39 / MAX: 266 MIN: 28 / MAX: 203
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 114.86 98.55 79.03 MIN: 73 / MAX: 180 MIN: 37 / MAX: 220 MIN: 26 / MAX: 213
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.30, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 85.54 49.65 38.01 MIN: 24 / MAX: 159 MIN: 16 / MAX: 203 MIN: 11 / MAX: 174
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.57, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 78.13 45.63 36.92 MIN: 40 / MAX: 139 MIN: 16 / MAX: 158 MIN: 11 / MAX: 127
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 58.44 43.95 35.30 MIN: 25 / MAX: 92 MIN: 16 / MAX: 142 MIN: 11 / MAX: 107
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 74.63 40.06 30.82 MIN: 23 / MAX: 142 MIN: 12 / MAX: 193 MIN: 9 / MAX: 154
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 66.71 38.70 29.85 MIN: 25 / MAX: 127 MIN: 12 / MAX: 152 MIN: 8 / MAX: 115
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 2012 Mac Mini MacBook Air 2013 2011 MacBook Pro 11 22 33 44 55 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 47.42 36.66 28.28 MIN: 22 / MAX: 82 MIN: 12 / MAX: 133 MIN: 9 / MAX: 93
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