Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 Performance (Core i5 Haswell)

Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1024MB on OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067) compared to various other Apple MacBook Pro and Retina MacBook Pro and Sandy Bridge Mac Mini. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 Performance (Core i5 Haswell) Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1024MB on OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067) compared to various other Apple MacBook Pro and Retina MacBook Pro and Sandy Bridge Mac Mini. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"2013 MacBook Air","2010 MacBook Pro","2011 Mac Mini","2012 Retina MacBook Pro" Processor,,Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core i5 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,Apple MacBook Air,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple Mac mini,Apple MacBook Pro Chipset,,Apple SSD,Intel 5,Intel 6,Intel 7 Memory,,2 x 2048 DDR3-1600MHz,2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz,2 x 1024 DDR3-1333MHz,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz Disk,,121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F,120GB OCZ-AGILITY2,500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E Graphics,,Intel HD 5000 1024MB,Intel HD + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 288MB,Intel HD 3000 288MB,Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB Monitor,,Color LCD,Color LCD,Acer P243W,Thunderbolt Display OS,,OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067),OS X 10.8.4,OS X 10.8.4,OS X 10.8.4 Kernel,,12.4.1 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.1,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3,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+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Unknown Screen Resolution,,1366x768,1440x900,1920x1200,2560x1440 ,,"2013 MacBook Air","2010 MacBook Pro","2011 Mac Mini","2012 Retina MacBook Pro" "Nexuiz - Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,17.95,21.83,32.92,31.41 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,17.15,21.75,29.95,31.09 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,16.48,22.28,39.46,31.88 "Xonotic - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,110.16,80.04,134.11,137.94 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,105.19,80.22,130.33,136.31 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,98.55,79.03,114.86,133.94 "Xonotic - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,49.65,38.01,85.54,63.52 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,45.63,36.92,78.13,63.12 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,43.95,35.30,58.44,60.74 "Xonotic - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,40.06,30.82,74.63,51.81 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,38.70,29.85,66.71,51.34 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,36.66,28.28,47.42,49.07 "Urban Terror - Resolution: 800 x 600 (FPS)",HIB,53.90,56.60,53.53,93.03 "Urban Terror - Resolution: 1366 x 768 (FPS)",HIB,52.67,56.73,30,92.83 "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,8656.33,7038.40,8570.60,9998.47 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1024.03,740.35,940.07,1285.71 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,343.24,375.69,383.55,435.57 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,193.19,141.24,182.49,288.04 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1662.38,904.59,1374.72,1850.81 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1802.27,1159.52,1630.16,2408.16 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1119.05,1120.72,1129.45,1412.79 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,407.43,249.70,243.00,287.09 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,6197,5455,6181,15214 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,22.73,20.63,24.57,27.93 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,0.53,0.73,0.65,0.35 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1442,382,125,1426 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,81.27,98.96,83.08,38.67 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,64.51,75.60,64.22,29.34 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,118.97,129.36,127.74,49.86 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,270.30,278.50,263.19,110.79