#Macbook air vs macbook pro 2018 benchmark mac#
Running specs while on a video call or using OBS will definitely get the fans going and the laptop surface to a very hot temperature.Īfter successive runs on the Mac Mini M1, the PMG SOC Die iStat Menu monitor hovered around 20-25 degrees celsius.
Whether or not this triggers the fans depends on what else is happening on the machine. This is *very* good and also promising for what native performance might look like, especially given the frequency of needing to boot up a Rails environment or restart spring.Īfter successive runs on the 16" Macbook Pro, the CPU cores (according to iStat Menus) hover around 60-80 degrees celsius. In terms of Rails boot-up, the M1 was the fastest at 3.39 seconds, followed by the 16" Macbook pro at 4.92s and the Mac Mini at 5.72s. The terminal scrollback in tmux + iTerm2 on the M1 feels particularly fast and light, I would guess due to the improved GPU performance of the M1. Reloading web pages in Chrome in the development environment feels fastest on the M1 Mac Mini, followed closely by the 2019 16" Macbook Pro. Using OBS on the Intel Mac Mini has not been a good experience, the load average and CPU are too high for the stream to be very stable. The spec-running variance is much higher than the other 2 machines, even though it's fastest possible run is still comparable. The 2018 Mac Mini Intel i3 does well to run the Rails specs when nothing else is going on, but otherwise it feels sluggish and test times can go up as high as 120 seconds if other intensive applications are running. Personally, fans give me anxiety even though I know that is irrational.
I can do the same thing on the 16" Macbook but the fans will max out, which is problematic because it creates background noise in the audio. On the M1 Mini I can run OBS 60 fps, Zoom, and Rails specs at the same time without any degradation in performance, fans, or heat. The M1 Mac Mini scores lower than the older Intel Mac Mini in this simple, single-theaded benchmark, but under real-world conditions it's significantly faster and more responsive, in some cases even more than the 16" Macbook Pro, a machine that costs nearly 4 times as much. Caveatsīenchmarks are not perfect, and this one doesn't really capture the overall feel of the 3 machines. We expect the native ARM mode to be a lot faster but haven't gotten the environment fully working natively yet. That means that all instructions are translated before they are executed, adding a lot of overhead. The Mac Mini M1 numbers come from running everything in x86_64 compatibility mode using Rosetta 2. Next was the 2018 Mac Mini Intel i3 at 1 minute 19 seconds with the 2020 Mac Mini M1 right behind at 1 minute 22 seconds. The 2019 16" Macbook Pro Intel i9 ran the specs fastest at a total time of 1 minute 8 seconds. The rest of the specs fall into different categories including serializers, coponents, services, controllers, helpers, mailers, and workers. There are a few Capybara specs that run a headless browser. The test suite is built with RSpec and consists of 1403 specs. The underlying database is Postgresql and we also use of Redis for caching and Sidekiq. We also have a Node.js runtime used by some parts of the Rails app running on node v12.13.1. Orbit is currently running on Rails 6.0.3.4 and ruby 2.7.2p137. Numbers reflect the lowest score of 5 back-to-back runs, which may minimize actual differences. Other programs were running at the same time, though I did my best to make sure nothing intensive was going on.