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. 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 2012 iMac27 corei5: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: iMac, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024MB, Monitor: iMac OS: OS X 10.9, Kernel: 13.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.0.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 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 |=================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 12566 |====================================== 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 |========================================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 50.33 |================== 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 |================================== 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 |================================ 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 11507.57 |=========================================== 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 |============================================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 313.59 |=================================== 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 |=============== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 54.53 |============================================== 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 |============== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 55.41 |============================================== 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 |============== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 54.50 |============================================== 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 |===================================== 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 |=============================================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 218 |======= 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 |=============================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 390.70 |============================================= 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 |================================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 1306.56 |============================================ 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 |=============================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 492.26 |============================================= 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 |============================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 300.54 |============================================= 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 |================================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 2132.84 |============================================ 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 |================================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 2088.31 |====================================== 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 |================================ 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 1518.82 |============================================ 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 |======================================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 31.30 |=================== 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 |======================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 102.53 |============================================= 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 |======================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 102.70 |============================================= 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 |================================ 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 153.45 |============================================= 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 |=============================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 153.87 |============================================= 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 |============================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 150.45 |============================================= 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 |=========================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 72.93 |======================================= 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 |=========================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 73.00 |=========================================== 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 |============================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 70.28 |============================================== 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 |========================= 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 60.04 |===================================== 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 |=========================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 59.73 |========================================= 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 |============================== 2012 iMac27 corei5 ...... 57.14 |==============================================