About
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.
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
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.| Name | Type | CPU | GPU | RAM | SSD | Xcode Benchmark | Geekbench CPU | Geekbench GPU | Cinebench |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G5L | Mac mini | 8C M1 | 8C | 16GB | 2TB | 123.885 (1.00x) | 8818 (1.00x) | 33843 (1.00x) | 7869 (1.00x) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |