How we test: Speedmark 9 Mac benchmarks<article>
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When Apple releases a major update of its operating system, we in the Macworld Lab update our overall system performance benchmark suite, Speedmark, to take advantage of the new OS.
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With Speedmark 9—the latest iteration—we’ve brought the suite into line with
OS X Mavericks.
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In addition to refreshing the operating system that Speedmark 9 tasks run under, we’ve updated the individual applications to their current versions and increased the file sizes that some tests use. We’ve also updated our baseline system, the Mac whose performance results we use to compare the results of all other Macs.
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<h2>Current Macs: Speedmark 9 scores</h2>
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<tr><th class="col1">Mac model</th><th>Speedmark 9 score</th></tr>
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<td class="col1">Mac Pro/3.0GHz (eight-core, Late 2013)*</td>
<td>350</td>
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<td class="col1">iMac/3.5GHz (27-inch, quad-core, 8GB RAM, 3TB Fusion Drive,
4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M, Late 2013)*</td>
<td>326</td>
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<td class="col1">Retina MacBook Pro/2.3GHz (15-inch, quad-core, Late 2013)</td>
<td>252</td>
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<td class="col1">iMac/3.4GHz (27-inch, quad-core, Late 2013)</td>
<td>235</td>
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<td class="col1">iMac/3.2GHz (27-inch, quad-core, Late 2013)</td>
<td>211</td>
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<td class="col1">iMac/2.9GHz (21.5-inch, quad-core, Late 2013)</td>
<td>189</td>
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<td class="col1">iMac/2.7GHz (21.5-inch, quad-core, Late 2013)</td>
<td>179</td>
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<td class="col1">Retina MacBook Pro/2.6GHz (15-inch, dual-core, Late 2013)</td>
<td>165</td>
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<td class="col1">MacBook Air/1.7GHz (13-inch, dual-core, Mid 2013)</td>
<td>160</td>
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<td class="col1">Mac mini/2.6GHz (quad-core, Late 2012)</td>
<td>165</td>
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<td class="col1">Retina MacBook Pro/2.4GHz (13-inch, dual-core, 256GB flash storage, Late 2013)</td>
<td>159</td>
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<td class="col1">Retina MacBook Pro/2.4GHz (13-inch, dual-core, 128GB flash storage, Late 2013)</td>
<td>151</td>
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<td class="col1">Mac mini/2.3GHz (quad-core, Late 2012)</td>
<td>149</td>
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<p class="caption">*Customize to build model.
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