MacStadium Bare Metal Mac Benchmarks

MacStadium offers a wide selection of Bare Metal Mac hosts for a variety of applications.
When selecting host machine varieties, most MacStadium customers seek to strike a balance between the volume of computation that they need to do, the speed at which a given job (i.e. a CI build) should be completed, and the cost involved.

Benchmarking Overview

When evaluating Macs, our main goal is to determine the optimal performance of a given piece of Mac hardware, including CPU performance, GPU performance, and real-world performance for CI/CD applications. To achieve this, we’re using a series of synthetic benchmarks:

• XcodeBenchmark
• Geekbench 6 Multi-core
• Geekbench 6 Compute
• Cinebench R23

Read the blog post for a complete description of the benchmarking process

Current Benchmark Results

All tests performed on macOS 13.4.1, unless otherwise specified.

Benchmarking Baseline

This machine is used as the baseline when referencing multipliers. In other words, a machine with a multiplier of 1.4 is 40% more performant than the baseline machine for the specified test. Multipliers are in parentheses after the result.

Current Standard Models

This table includes Standard models currently available as Bare Metal from MacStadium. The table is sorted from highest-performing to lowest-performing.

Full Results

This table includes the full range of benchmarked hardware, including several machines not currently available for reference. Current and former MacStadium standard bare metal machines will have their name listed.