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.
2010 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
2011 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
2012 Retina MacBook Pro:
Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display
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: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
2013 MacBook Air:
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
Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 21.83 |===============================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 32.92 |==============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 31.41 |============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 17.95 |=========================
Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 21.75 |================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 29.95 |============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 31.09 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 17.15 |=========================
Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 22.28 |==========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 39.46 |==============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 31.88 |=====================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 16.48 |===================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 80.04 |==========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 134.11 |============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 137.94 |=============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 110.16 |====================================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 80.22 |==========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 130.33 |===========================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 136.31 |=============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 105.19 |===================================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 79.03 |===========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 114.86 |=======================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 133.94 |=============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 98.55 |=================================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 38.01 |====================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 85.54 |==============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 63.52 |==================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 49.65 |===========================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 36.92 |======================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 78.13 |==============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 63.12 |=====================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 45.63 |===========================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 35.30 |===========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 58.44 |============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 60.74 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 43.95 |=================================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 30.82 |===================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 74.63 |==============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 51.81 |================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 40.06 |=========================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 29.85 |=====================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 66.71 |==============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 51.34 |===================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 38.70 |===========================
Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 28.28 |===========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 47.42 |============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 49.07 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 36.66 |==================================
Urban Terror 4.2.013
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 56.60 |============================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 53.53 |==========================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 93.03 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 53.90 |===========================
Urban Terror 4.2.013
Resolution: 1366 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 56.73 |============================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 30.00 |===============
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 92.83 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 52.67 |==========================
Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 7038.40 |===============================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 8570.60 |======================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 9998.47 |============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 8656.33 |======================================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 740.35 |=========================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 940.07 |================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 1285.71 |============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 1024.03 |===================================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 375.69 |=======================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 383.55 |========================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 435.57 |=============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 343.24 |===================================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 141.24 |======================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 182.49 |=============================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 288.04 |=============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 193.19 |==============================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 904.59 |======================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 1374.72 |=================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 1850.81 |============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 1662.38 |========================================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 1159.52 |=====================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 1630.16 |==============================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 2408.16 |============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 1802.27 |=================================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 1120.72 |===================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 1129.45 |===================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 1412.79 |============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 1119.05 |===================================
Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 249.70 |============================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 243.00 |===========================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 287.09 |================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 407.43 |=============================================
7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 5455 |================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 6181 |===================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 15214 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 6197 |===================
OpenSSL 1.0.1c
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 20.63 |==================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 24.57 |========================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 27.93 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 22.73 |=====================================
CLOMP 3.3
Static OMP Speedup
Speedup > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 0.73 |===============================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 0.65 |==========================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 0.35 |=======================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 0.53 |==================================
PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 382 |============
2011 Mac Mini ........... 125 |====
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 1426 |==============================================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 1442 |===============================================
Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 98.96 |==============================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 83.08 |=======================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 38.67 |==================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 81.27 |======================================
Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 75.60 |==============================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 64.22 |=======================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 29.34 |==================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 64.51 |=======================================
C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 129.36 |=============================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 127.74 |============================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 49.86 |=================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 118.97 |=========================================
Primesieve 4.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2010 MacBook Pro ........ 278.50 |=============================================
2011 Mac Mini ........... 263.19 |===========================================
2012 Retina MacBook Pro . 110.79 |==================
2013 MacBook Air ........ 270.30 |============================================