MacBook Pro 13 'Retina: Measuring file recording speed

Below are the measurement results: file copy speed, actual file copy time and benchmark of 64-bit system with Geekbench 3 software. In particular, the file recording speed of the device is impressive, up to 1300 MB / s for read and write speeds of over 600 MB / s, which is on par with the SSD specification announced by Apple for the new MacBook Air 13 ". Both the MBA and MBP are upgraded by SSDs. And this is the main reason the machine can read and write so quickly .

Speed ​​up SSD with Disk Speed ​​Test

Runs many times and I randomly picked one of those results, namely:

1. File writing speed: 634.7 MB / s
2. File read speed: 1,315.6 MB / s

For reference, I also measured the SSD speed on my MBP 15 "Retina 2012 and had much lower results:

1. File writing speed: 371.2 MB / s
2. File read speed: 419 MB / s

To make it easier to imagine, you might think that you can copy a 700 MB movie file from an external storage drive into MBP 13 "Retina in less than 3 seconds. Or copy the DVD file more than 4GB from the computer. External drive for 5, 6 seconds Of course, it depends on the type of external drive you use, if you use an SSD, it will give you the best copy speed, while using USB stick, the speed will be reduced. down respectively.

Actual file copy speed

I use USB 3.0 drive to copy a 15 GB folder from there to the computer. The copy window on Mac tells the copy time to be about 3 minutes, the actual time that I clocked is 2 minutes 56 seconds. Just round up to 3 minutes, divide the copy speed to about 83 MB / s . This speed is much lower than the above 634.7 MB / s, but as I said, it depends on the type of drive you are attached to. To achieve the highest speed, you must use SSD on both inside and outside.

System Benchmarks (Geekbench 3, 64-bit)

Geekbench 3 is a simple, detailed and simple benchmark software for Mac computers ( and many other operating systems ). Single-core and multi-core scores ( measured on 64-bit platforms ) are 3325 and 7020 points. Its configuration is the standard ( lowest ) version using 2.7 GHz Core i5-5257U CPU with 8 GB RAM . See the comparison table with many other Macs below, the difference is not much (the score is taken from the Geekbench results website ).

Benchmark mono

Multi-core Benchmark