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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 (like a CI build), and should be completed, and the cost involved.

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Overview

Benchmarking When evaluating Macs, the 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, refer to these synthetic benchmarks:
  • XcodeBenchmark
  • Geekbench 6 Multi-core
  • Geekbench 6 Compute
  • Cinebench R23
Read the blog post for a complete description of the benchmarking process Benchmark Results All tests performed on macOS 13.4.1, unless otherwise specified.

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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.
NameTypeCPUGPURAMSSDXcode BenchmarkGeekbench CPUGeekbench GPUCinebench
G5LMac mini8C M18C16GB2TB123.885
(1.00x)8818
(1.00x)33843
(1.00x)7869
(1.00x)

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Current Standard Models

This table includes Standard models currently available as Bare Metal from MacStadium. Name | Mac
Model | CPU | GPU | RAM | SSD | Xcode
Benchmark | Geekbench CPU | Geekbench GPU | Cinebench
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S2.L | Mac Studio | 24C
M2 Ultra | 60C | 128GB | 2TB | 98.043s
(1.94x) | 21734
(2.12x) | 215160
(4.45x) | 1975.14
(3.20x)
S2.M | Mac
Studio | 24C M2 Ultra | 60C | 64GB | 2TB | 96.82s
(1.97x) | 21777
(2.13x) | 218001
(4.51x) | 1981.3
(3.30x)
M4.XL | Mac
mini | 14C
M4
Pro | 20C | 64GB | 2TB | 97.05s
(1.96x) | 22582 (2.57x) | 113953 (2.36x) | 1639.38 (2.73x)
M4.L | Mac
mini | 12C
M4
Pro | 16C | 48GB | 1TB | 107.28s
(2.05x) | 20769
(2.36x) | 100559 (2.85x) | 1478.15 (2.85x)
M4.M | Mac
mini | 10C
M4 | 10C | 24GB | 512GB | 139.14s (1.58x) | 15123 (1.72x) | 58437 (1.65x) | 982.56 (1.89x)
M4.S | Mac
mini | 10C
M4 | 10C | 16GB | 256GB | 138.95s (1.58x) | 15153 (1.72x) | 58309 (1.65x) | 983.99 (1.90x)
S1.M | Mac Studio | 10C
M1 Max | 32C | 64GB | 2TB | 146.91
(1.30x) | 13049
(1.27x) | 123103
(2.55x) | 858.57
(1.43x)
M2.XL | Mac mini | 12C M2 Pro | 19C | 32GB | 2TB | 128.11s
(1.49x) | 14951
(1.75x) | 86500
(1.79x) | 1047.68
(1.75x)
M2.L | Mac mini | 10C M2 Pro | 16C | 16GB | 1TB | 147.16s
(1.29x) | 13076
(1.28x) | 78215
(1.62x) | 817.66
(1.36x)
M2.M | Mac mini | 8C M2 | 10C | 16GB | 1TB | 190.33s
(1.15x) | 10244
(1.0x) | 48348
(1.0x) | 600.07
(1.0x)
M2.S | Mac mini | 8C M2 | 10C | 8GB | 256GB | 108.477s (1.14x) | 10205 (1.0x) | 48229 (1.0x) | 605.38
(1.0x)

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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. Name | Type | CPU | GPU | RAM | SSD | Xcode
Benchmark | Geekbench CPU | Geekbench GPU | Cinebench
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S2.M | Mac Studio | 24C
M2 Ultra | 60C | 64GB | 2TB | 53.599s
(2.31x) | 20963
(2.38x) | 206071
(6.09x) | 28945
(3.68x)
S1.L | Mac Studio | 20C
M1 Ultra | 64C | 128GB | 4TB | 65.558s
(1.89x) | 18060
(2.05x) | 174505
(5.16x) | 224214
(3.08x)
N/A | Mac Studio | 12C
M2 Max | 30C | 32GB | 512G | 74.003s
(1.67x) | 14872
(1.69x) | 127390
(3.76x) | 14885
(1.89x)
M2.XL | Mac mini | 12C M2 Pro | 19C | 32GB | 2TB | 74.659s
(1.64x) | 14686
(1.67x) | 81837
(2.42x) | 14812
(1.88x)
S1.M | Mac Studio | 10C
M1 Max | 32C | 64GB | 2TB | 89.340
(1.39x) | 12947
(1.47x) | 119490
(3.53x) | 12457
(1.58x)
M2.L | Mac mini | 10C M2 Pro | 16C | 16GB | 1TB | 84.904s
(1.46x) | 12405
(1.41x) | 73622
(2.18x) | 11858
(1.51x)
M2.M | Mac mini | 8C M2 | 10C | 16GB | 1TB | 106.259s
(1.17x) | 10130
(1.15x) | 45902
(1.36x) | 8776
(1.12x)
M2.S | Mac mini | 8C M2 | 10C | 8GB | 256GB | 108.477s (1.14x) | 10192 (1.16x) | 45891 (1.36x) | 8780
(1.12x)
M1.M | Mac mini | 8C M1 | 8C | 16GB | 1TB | 123.885s
(1.00x) | 8818
(1.00x) | 33843
(1.00x) | 7869
(1.00x)
G4B | Mac mini
(2018) | 6C
i7 3.2 | | 32G | 512GB | 188.779s
(0.66x) | 6754
(0.77x) | 6631
(0.20x) | 7645
(0.97x)
G2 | Mac Pro (2013) (12.6.7) | 12C
Xeon | Dual D500 | 64GB | 1TB | 193.603s
(0.73x) | 5311
(0.60x) | 24788
(0.73x) | 8507
(1.08x)
G2 | Mac Pro
(2013)
(12.6.7) | 6C
Xeon | Dual D500 | 32GB | 1TB | 264.804s
(0.47x) | 3862
(0.44x) | 24887
(0.74x) | 3862
(0.49x)
G4A | Mac mini
(2018) | 4C
i3 3.6 | | 16GB | 512GB | 369.022s
(0.36x) | 3912
(0.44x) | 5806
(0.17x) | 3606
(0.46x)