Apple M1 macOS 11.0 Big Sur Benchmark Comparison
Mac benchmarks for a future article.
Core i5 4278U Mac Mini
Processor: Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Generic AHCI, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 2GB, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0.1, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08), Compiler: GCC 11.0.3 + Clang 11.0.3, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 38
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 14.0.1+7)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.8.3
i7-6700HQ MBP
Processor: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Memory: 2 x 8 GB LPDDR3-2133MHz, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: Intel HD 530 + AMD Radeon Pro 450 2GB, Monitor: Color LCD
OS: macOS 11.0.1, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08), Compiler: GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 220
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 15.0.1+9-18)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.9.0
Core i7-8700B
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR4-2667MHz, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: Intel UHD 630 2GB, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0.1, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08), Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 11.0.0, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 214
Java Notes: Please visit java for information on installing Java.
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.8.3
M1 MacMini - Rosetta
Processor: VirtualApple @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 229GB, Graphics: Apple M1, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44), Compiler: GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 15.0.1+9-18)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.9.0
M1 MacMini
Processor: Apple (8 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 229GB, Graphics: Apple M1, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0, Kernel: 20.1.0 (arm64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44), Compiler: GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
7-Zip Compression
This is a test of 7-Zip using p7zip with its integrated benchmark feature or upstream 7-Zip for the Windows x64 build. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
AOBench
AOBench is a lightweight ambient occlusion renderer, written in C. The test profile is using a size of 2048 x 2048. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Appleseed
Appleseed is an open-source production renderer focused on physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Basis Universal
Basis Universal is a GPU texture codoec. This test times how long it takes to convert sRGB PNGs into Basis Univeral assets with various settings. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Botan
Botan is a cross-platform open-source C++ crypto library that supports most all publicly known cryptographic algorithms. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
BRL-CAD
BRL-CAD 7.28.0 is a cross-platform, open-source solid modeling system with built-in benchmark mode. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
C-Ray
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Chaos Group V-RAY
This is a test of Chaos Group's V-RAY benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Crypto++
Crypto++ is a C++ class library of cryptographic algorithms. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Darktable
Darktable is an open-source photography / workflow application this will use any system-installed Darktable program or on Windows will automatically download the pre-built binary from the project. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Embree
Intel Embree is a collection of high-performance ray-tracing kernels for execution on CPUs. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Fhourstones
This integer benchmark solves positions in the game of Connect-4, as played on a vertical 7x6 board. By default, it uses a 64Mb transposition table with the twobig replacement strategy. Positions are represented as 64-bit bitboards, and the hash function is computed using a single 64-bit modulo operation, giving 64-bit machines a slight edge. The alpha-beta searcher sorts moves dynamically based on the history heuristic. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FLAC Audio Encoding
This test times how long it takes to encode a sample WAV file to FLAC format five times. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Geekbench
This is a benchmark of Geekbench 5 Pro. The test profile automates the execution of Geekbench 5 under the Phoronix Test Suite, assuming you have a valid license key for Geekbench 5 Pro. This test will not work without a valid license key for Geekbench Pro. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GEGL
GEGL is the Generic Graphics Library and is the library/framework used by GIMP and other applications like GNOME Photos. This test profile times how long it takes to complete various GEGL operations on a static set of sample JPEG images. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Git
This test measures the time needed to carry out some sample Git operations on an example, static repository that happens to be a copy of the GNOME GTK tool-kit repository. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GraphicsMagick
This is a test of GraphicsMagick with its OpenMP implementation that performs various imaging tests on a sample 6000x4000 pixel JPEG image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Hierarchical INTegration
This test runs the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory Hierarchical INTegration (HINT) benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
IndigoBench
This is a test of Indigo Renderer's IndigoBench benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Intel Open Image Denoise
Open Image Denoise is a denoising library for ray-tracing and part of the oneAPI rendering toolkit. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Java 2D Microbenchmark
This test runs a series of microbenchmarks to check the performance of the OpenGL-based Java 2D pipeline and the underlying OpenGL drivers. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Java SciMark
This test runs the Java version of SciMark 2.0, which is a benchmark for scientific and numerical computing developed by programmers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This benchmark is made up of Fast Foruier Transform, Jacobi Successive Over-relaxation, Monte Carlo, Sparse Matrix Multiply, and dense LU matrix factorization benchmarks. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Kvazaar
This is a test of Kvazaar as a CPU-based H.265 video encoder written in the C programming language and optimized in Assembly. Kvazaar is the winner of the 2016 ACM Open-Source Software Competition and developed at the Ultra Video Group, Tampere University, Finland. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LevelDB
LevelDB is a key-value storage library developed by Google that supports making use of Snappy for data compression and has other modern features. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
libjpeg-turbo tjbench
tjbench is a JPEG decompression/compression benchmark part of libjpeg-turbo. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LibRaw
LibRaw is a RAW image decoder for digital camera photos. This test profile runs LibRaw's post-processing benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LuxCoreRender
LuxCoreRender is an open-source physically based renderer. This test profile is focused on running LuxCoreRender on the CPU as opposed to the OpenCL version. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Maxon Cinebench
This is a test profile to run MAXON Cinebench on Windows. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAMD
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NeatBench
NeatBench is a benchmark of the cross-platform Neat Video software on the CPU and optional GPU (OpenCL / CUDA) support. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OSPray
Intel OSPray is a portable ray-tracing engine for high-performance, high-fidenlity scientific visualizations. OSPray builds off Intel's Embree and Intel SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) components as part of the oneAPI rendering toolkit. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ParaView
This test runs ParaView benchmarks: an open-source data analytics and visualization application. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PHPBench
PHPBench is a benchmark suite for PHP. It performs a large number of simple tests in order to bench various aspects of the PHP interpreter. PHPBench can be used to compare hardware, operating systems, PHP versions, PHP accelerators and caches, compiler options, etc. The number of iterations used is 1,000,000. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Primesieve
Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve benchmarks the CPU's L1/L2 cache performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PyBench
This test profile reports the total time of the different average timed test results from PyBench. PyBench reports average test times for different functions such as BuiltinFunctionCalls and NestedForLoops, with this total result providing a rough estimate as to Python's average performance on a given system. This test profile runs PyBench each time for 20 rounds. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Renaissance
Renaissance is a suite of benchmarks designed to test the Java JVM from Apache Spark to a Twitter-like service to Scala and other features. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SciMark
This test runs the ANSI C version of SciMark 2.0, which is a benchmark for scientific and numerical computing developed by programmers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This test is made up of Fast Foruier Transform, Jacobi Successive Over-relaxation, Monte Carlo, Sparse Matrix Multiply, and dense LU matrix factorization benchmarks. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Selenium
This test profile uses the Selenium WebDriver for running various browser benchmarks in different available web browsers. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SMHasher
SMHasher is a hash function tester. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SQLite Speedtest
This is a benchmark of SQLite's speedtest1 benchmark program with an increased problem size of 1,000. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stockfish
This is a test of Stockfish, an advanced C++11 chess benchmark that can scale up to 128 CPU cores. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Sunflow Rendering System
This test runs benchmarks of the Sunflow Rendering System. The Sunflow Rendering System is an open-source render engine for photo-realistic image synthesis with a ray-tracing core. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Tachyon
This is a test of the threaded Tachyon, a parallel ray-tracing system, measuring the time to ray-trace a sample scene. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed HMMer Search
This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed MAFFT Alignment
This test performs an alignment of 100 pyruvate decarboxylase sequences. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
WebP Image Encode
This is a test of Google's libwebp with the cwebp image encode utility and using a sample 6000x4000 pixel JPEG image as the input. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
XZ Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a sample file (an Ubuntu file-system image) using XZ compression. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Zstd Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a sample file (an Ubuntu ISO) using Zstd compression. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Core i5 4278U Mac Mini
Processor: Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Generic AHCI, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 2GB, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0.1, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08), Compiler: GCC 11.0.3 + Clang 11.0.3, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 38
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 14.0.1+7)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.8.3
Testing initiated at 17 November 2020 14:40 by user phoronix.
i7-6700HQ MBP
Processor: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Memory: 2 x 8 GB LPDDR3-2133MHz, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: Intel HD 530 + AMD Radeon Pro 450 2GB, Monitor: Color LCD
OS: macOS 11.0.1, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08), Compiler: GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 220
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 15.0.1+9-18)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.9.0
Testing initiated at 17 November 2020 09:34 by user michaellarabel.
Core i7-8700B
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR4-2667MHz, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: Intel UHD 630 2GB, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0.1, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08), Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 11.0.0, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 214
Java Notes: Please visit java for information on installing Java.
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.8.3
Testing initiated at 17 November 2020 16:55 by user system.
M1 MacMini - Rosetta
Processor: VirtualApple @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 229GB, Graphics: Apple M1, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0, Kernel: 20.1.0 (x86_64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44), Compiler: GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 15.0.1+9-18)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.9.0
Testing initiated at 18 November 2020 15:54 by user michaellarabel.
M1 MacMini
Processor: Apple (8 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 229GB, Graphics: Apple M1, Monitor: ASUS VP28U
OS: macOS 11.0, Kernel: 20.1.0 (arm64), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44), Compiler: GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Environment Notes: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 15.0.1+9-18)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.9.0
Testing initiated at 19 November 2020 14:01 by user michaellarabel.