Apple M1 macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur Benchmarks Mac benchmarks for a future article. ,,"Core i7-8700B Mac Mini","M1 Mac Mini - Rosetta","M1 Mac Mini","M1 Mac Mini macOS 11.0.1" Processor,,Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),VirtualApple @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores),Apple M1 (8 Cores),Apple M1 (8 Cores) Motherboard,,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini Memory,,2 x 4 GB DDR4-2667MHz,8GB,8GB,8GB Disk,,234GB,229GB,229GB,229GB Graphics,,Intel UHD 630 2GB,Apple M1,Apple M1,Apple M1 Monitor,,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U OS,,macOS 11.0.1,macOS 11.0,macOS 11.0,macOS 11.0.1 Kernel,,20.1.0 (x86_64),20.1.0 (x86_64),20.1.0 (arm64),20.1.0 (arm64) OpenCL,,OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08),OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44),OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44),OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 29 2020 19:50:08) Compiler,,GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 11.0.0,GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2,GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2,GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2 File-System,,APFS,APFS,APFS,APFS Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160 ,,"Core i7-8700B Mac Mini","M1 Mac Mini - Rosetta","M1 Mac Mini","M1 Mac Mini macOS 11.0.1" "Renaissance - Test: Savina Reactors.IO (ms)",LIB,10595.929,9668.361,, "Selenium - Benchmark: WebXPRT - Browser: Google Chrome (Score)",HIB,255,,199, "Selenium - Benchmark: Basemark - Browser: Firefox (Overall Score)",HIB,518.96,,721.95, "Appleseed - Scene: Emily (sec)",LIB,560.828946,752.887524,,750.315364 "Crypto++ - Test: Keyed Algorithms (MiB/s)",HIB,641.469218,438.559991,, "Java 2D Microbenchmark - Rendering Test: Vector Graphics Rendering (Units/sec)",HIB,1129614.5875305,6694455.3556330,, "Hierarchical INTegration - Test: FLOAT (QUIPs)",HIB,440061969.52057,554583835.63522,, "BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,73448,69930,, "Appleseed - Scene: Material Tester (sec)",LIB,308.371451,478.937211,,438.426597 "Selenium - Benchmark: Basemark - Browser: Google Chrome (Overall Score)",HIB,506.26,,747.72, "Crypto++ - Test: Integer + Elliptic Curve Public Key Algorithms (MiB/s)",HIB,3862.555810,3315.330190,, "Appleseed - Scene: Disney Material (sec)",LIB,308.506243,377.988431,,379.869025 "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,154.246,252.397,137.221,137.222 "NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,2.86005,3.55882,,3.55789 "LuxCoreRender - Scene: DLSC (M samples/sec)",HIB,1.26,0.90,,0.90 "IndigoBench - Acceleration: OpenCL GPU - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,0.566,1.994,,1.975 "IndigoBench - Acceleration: OpenCL GPU - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,1.448,5.878,,5.789 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Very Fast (FPS)",HIB,8.61,3.08,3.67, "Java 2D Microbenchmark - Rendering Test: Image Rendering (Units/sec)",HIB,1828473.3491378,6616497.3323001,, "Tachyon - Total Time (sec)",LIB,149.8490,179.7149,118.0699,118.094 "Selenium - Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Firefox (Score)",HIB,11581,,13965, "Selenium - Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google Chrome (Score)",HIB,11719,,13783, "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Crown (FPS)",HIB,6.7317,3.7754,,3.7791 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Crown (FPS)",HIB,7.5665,3.8613,,3.8630 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19 (MB/s)",HIB,15.6,24.9,, "OSPray - Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: Path Tracer (FPS)",HIB,2.65,1.56,,1.55 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Asian Dragon (FPS)",HIB,7.9907,4.4010,,4.4066 "LibRaw - Post-Processing Benchmark (Mpix/sec)",HIB,10.39,10.73,,10.75 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,106.909,117.030,, "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3 (MB/s)",HIB,1670.7,4544.3,, "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Asian Dragon (FPS)",HIB,9.0500,4.7773,,4.7818 "Basis Universal - Settings: UASTC Level 3 (sec)",LIB,92.103,104.475,, "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,14005.8,16468.9,20671.8,20732.7 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Medium (FPS)",HIB,13.68,4.61,5.51, "Stockfish - Total Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,16975458,15319002,, "Intel Open Image Denoise - Scene: Memorial (Images / Sec)",HIB,5.36,1.80,,1.80 "Selenium - Benchmark: Speedometer - Browser: Google Chrome (Runs/min)",HIB,102,,102, "Selenium - Benchmark: Speedometer - Browser: Firefox (Runs/min)",HIB,103,,100.6, "Geekbench - Test: GPU Apple Metal (Score)",HIB,4919,,21626,21675 "Geekbench - Test: CPU Multi Core (Score)",HIB,5360,,5923,5981 "Botan - Test: AES-256 (MiB/s)",HIB,4064.644,4833.036,, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Ultra Fast (FPS)",HIB,15.81,6.76,7.03, "LuxCoreRender - Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism (M samples/sec)",HIB,1.21,0.90,,0.87 "Chaos Group V-RAY - Mode: CPU (Ksamples)",HIB,9211,7384,,7384 "OSPray - Demo: San Miguel - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,10.17,4.75,,4.75 "Crypto++ - Test: Unkeyed Algorithms (MiB/s)",HIB,292.152864,302.259103,, "Sunflow Rendering System - Global Illumination + Image Synthesis (sec)",LIB,1.566,2.083,, "SQLite Speedtest - Timed Time - Size 1,000 (sec)",LIB,77.383,73.689,50.690,50.427 "IndigoBench - Acceleration: CPU - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,1.163,0.881,,0.889 "IndigoBench - Acceleration: CPU - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,2.823,1.988,,2.009 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Enhanced (Iterations/min)",HIB,24,31,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,16,19,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,116,153,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,176,224,, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Rotate (Iterations/min)",HIB,794,1040,, "Java SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,2458.26,2590.82,, "Basis Universal - Settings: ETC1S (sec)",LIB,56.462,61.481,, "Selenium - Benchmark: StyleBench - Browser: Firefox (Runs / Minute)",HIB,98.51,,87.7, "Selenium - Benchmark: StyleBench - Browser: Google Chrome (Runs / Minute)",HIB,98.6,,87.4, "Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands (sec)",LIB,72.010,55.440,46.410,46.478 "Geekbench - Test: CPU Single Core (Score)",HIB,1229,,1329,1324 "Basis Universal - Settings: UASTC Level 2 (sec)",LIB,49.531,54.174,, "XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,50.813,58.111,49.304,49.291 "Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,22.914,10.335,,10.329 "OSPray - Demo: Magnetic Reconnection - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,10.31,3.87,,3.86 "GEGL - Operation: Color Enhance (sec)",LIB,48.521,47.632,,47.378 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment - LSU RNA (sec)",LIB,18.513,36.242,11.891,11.978 "ParaView - Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (MiPolys / Sec)",HIB,532.720,582.510,,639.520 "ParaView - Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Frames / Sec)",HIB,5.32,5.81,,6.38 "Selenium - Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute - Browser: Firefox (ms)",LIB,31.8,,28.7, "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless, Highest Compression (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,37.825,37.923,,37.901 "OSPray - Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,12.77,7.15,,7.16 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,37.475,33.938,, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Very Fast (FPS)",HIB,34.70,12.75,15.03, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Sequential Fill (us/Op)",LIB,86.268,46.940,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Sequential Fill (MB/s)",HIB,15.4,18.8,, "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,1293,,1493,1505 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,8.777,12.629,28.309,28.281 "GEGL - Operation: Reflect (sec)",LIB,31.597,31.706,,31.637 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,764.47,557.75,579.07,579.94 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,34269,31892,41836,41856 "AOBench - Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time (sec)",LIB,30.400,,21.533,21.529 "GEGL - Operation: Crop (sec)",LIB,8.280,9.194,,8.917 "Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,8.071,7.188,,7.060 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Delete (us/Op)",LIB,58.546,30.279,, "Java 2D Microbenchmark - Rendering Test: Text Rendering (Units/sec)",HIB,14963.269401722,18138.649719128,, "Botan - Test: Blowfish (MiB/s)",HIB,416.676,368.370,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Seek Random (us/Op)",LIB,30.317,10.050,, "Botan - Test: Twofish (MiB/s)",HIB,327.496,291.511,, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Ultra Fast (FPS)",HIB,65.14,27.10,28.18, "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,16.264,17.273,,17.195 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,557663,420420,594928,596325 "NeatBench - Acceleration: CPU (FPS)",HIB,10.13,10.1,,10.2 "SMHasher - Hash: MeowHash (cycles/hash)",LIB,50.619,24.502,, "SMHasher - Hash: MeowHash (MiB/sec)",HIB,42358.76,107910.43,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Read (us/Op)",LIB,6.797,4.927,, "SMHasher - Hash: Spooky32 (cycles/hash)",LIB,39.709,23.494,, "SMHasher - Hash: Spooky32 (MiB/sec)",HIB,17008.29,33009.43,, "SMHasher - Hash: fasthash32 (cycles/hash)",LIB,31.854,15.503,, "SMHasher - Hash: fasthash32 (MiB/sec)",HIB,7718.00,16175.22,, "SMHasher - Hash: t1ha2_atonce (cycles/hash)",LIB,31.220,15.406,, "SMHasher - Hash: t1ha2_atonce (MiB/sec)",HIB,16101.83,44136.56,, "Selenium - Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute - Browser: Google Chrome (ms)",LIB,31.8,,28.2, "SMHasher - Hash: wyhash (cycles/hash)",LIB,23.018,11.586,, "SMHasher - Hash: wyhash (MiB/sec)",HIB,18264.27,66461.76,, "Basis Universal - Settings: UASTC Level 0 (sec)",LIB,9.039,9.143,, "Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,7.147,5.704,,5.718 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Fill (us/Op)",LIB,98.083,53.400,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Fill (MB/s)",HIB,13.5,16.5,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Overwrite (us/Op)",LIB,97.602,53.243,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Overwrite (MB/s)",HIB,13.6,16.6,, "libjpeg-turbo tjbench - Test: Decompression Throughput (Megapixels/sec)",HIB,209.639621,148.845598,, "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Highest Compression (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,6.252,6.836,,6.984 "NeatBench - Acceleration: All (FPS)",HIB,10.2,10.2,,10.3 "GEGL - Operation: Scale (sec)",LIB,5.036,5.849,,5.772 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100 (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,2.313,2.804,,2.816 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,832.84,512.06,575.17,575.03 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,245.92,346.52,397.21,401.65