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2023 14" MacBook Pro M2 Max Speedometer Test

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Nothing fancy, just a Speedometer test from the 2023 MacBook Pro 14" with the M2 Max Chip.

Pretty impressive..

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Yeah.. LOL.. Have not seen anyone post the speedometer test so figured I'd share.
 
ovbacon said:
I do not know about this, what does it test?
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From Speedometer's About page:

This benchmark simulates user actions for adding, completing, and removing to-do items using multiple examples in TodoMVC. Each example in TodoMVC implements the same todo application using DOM APIs in different ways. Some call DOM APIs directly from ECMAScript 5 (ES5), ECMASCript 2015 (ES6), ES6 transpiled to ES5, and Elm transpiled to ES5. Others use one of eleven popular JavaScript frameworks: React, React with Redux, Ember.js, Backbone.js, AngularJS, (new) Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Preact, Inferno, and Flight. Many of these frameworks are used on the most popular websites in the world, such as Facebook and Twitter. The performance of these types of operations depends on the speed of the DOM APIs, the JavaScript engine, CSS style resolution, layout, and other technologies.
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do you have to quit all apps & deactivate extensions to get this score?
On my M1 Max I get around 270 on Safari.
 
F23 said:
do you have to quit all apps & deactivate extensions to get this score?
On my M1 Max I get around 270 on Safari.
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Given that speedometer is testing the specific browser rather than the underlying hardware, having other apps open shouldn't have much impact on the results. I pulled a consistent 437 in my testing last night (M2 Max), did you have any of the power saving features turned on when you ran the test?
 
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dmccloud said:
Given that speedometer is testing the specific browser rather than the underlying hardware, having other apps open shouldn't have much impact on the results. I pulled a consistent 437 in my testing last night (M2 Max), did you have any of the power saving features turned on when you ran the test?
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No it's actually on high power mode too, I just ran it again & got this. Makes no sense to me...
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F23 said:
No it's actually on high power mode too, I just ran it again & got this. Makes no sense to me...
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It’s a single thread (mostly) test so unless your Mac is doing something pretty intense that number doesn’t make sense. If you look at Activity Monitor are you seeing high load?

Restart in safe mode and see if that makes a difference.
 
jdb8167 said:
It’s a single thread (mostly) test so unless your Mac is doing something pretty intense that number doesn’t make sense. If you look at Activity Monitor are you seeing high load?

Restart in safe mode and see if that makes a difference.
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apparently after a little research that number is the average for the M1-M1 Max chips so I guess it's a normal result.
OP has an M2 Max hence the 400+ result. quite a nice jump
 
F23 said:
apparently after a little research that number is the average for the M1-M1 Max chips so I guess it's a normal result.
OP has an M2 Max hence the 400+ result. quite a nice jump
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I doubt that 254 is the average for M1, I just ran it a bunch of times on my 16" M1 Max and got scores around 370 to 380.

The screenshot @F23 posted has very high variance, +/- 36, which hints to me that there's a lot of load on the machine competing for CPU or GPU time, and/or @F23 didn't let the benchmark run to completion in the foreground while not doing anything else. On an unloaded computer with no other activity you shouldn't see so much run-to-run variance.

To expand on that a bit, this benchmark actually runs itself 10 times and then averages to get a final result. 254 +/- 36 means there's a huge spread in the individual run times. You can see these by clicking the Details button on the score screen. For me, the variance is usually under 5, but I can make it go up just by starting a run then clicking over to this window to type this post.
 
Have you by chance installed the Sonoma beta? I have an M1 Pro and used to get in the low 300s with the most recent Ventura software and now it's up to 442. When I originally got the machine at launch it was maybe 250. It seems Apple continues to make improvements to optimizations both in the OS and Safari? I would guess you may get over 500 on Sonoma.


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One thing to check before running Speedometer is your battery settings. I just ran the test twice (once with Low Power mode turned on, once with it turned off. The results were noticeably different:

Low Power On: 330 ±36
Low Power Off: 434 ±49

So while there was more variance with the Low Power off tests, the average score was still 33% higher than the average with low power mode turned on.
 
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