Xbench: Benchmarking How Fast the 2013 rMBP SSD Really Is

[Macshroomer]

Damn boy, filled that up quick! Man, I love these speeds that the 1TB offers.

LOL, yeah, one photo folder I need to go through with 350GB in it, I move big bags of data around, the 1TB was a *really* good move.. That folder will gone by tomorrow...

 

[whitedragon101]

Random 4K performance is nothing special or even low compared to a lot of other drives on the market.

Unfortunately that is probably the most important aspect of performance in day to day use.

I'm withholding judgement until I see the anandtech review so I have a number I can use to compare apples with apples (if you'll pardon the accidental pun). I am hoping that 26MB/s for 4k random read speed is not the number anandtech get in their testing. The prev gen gets 45MB/s on Anandtechs 4k random read test.

Hopefully they are beavering away on the firmware for random performance tweaking now that sequential performance is so high. They need to get random 4k reads up in the 90-100MB/s like the leading SSDs ( or higher would be even better ). The rMBP SSD is made by samsung and samsungs 840 Pro gets 103MB/s on 4k random read.

 

[john123]

Random 4K performance is nothing special or even low compared to a lot of other drives on the market.

Unfortunately that is probably the most important aspect of performance in day to day use.

While true, comparing it to other drives on the market isn't really relevant. The only choices buyers today have is the current generation versus a previous one.

That said, which third-party SSD did you have in mind as a random 4k leader?

 

[waitingallday]

Model: Late 2013 13" Haswell rMBP - 2.8GHz i7, 16GB, 1TB SSD
SSD Manufacturer: SM (Samsung)
Free Space Currently on SSD: 733.23 GB

 

[TheSSDReview]

Follow Up

We have tested the last few MBA SSDs rather extensively in fifferent configuration, comparing SSDs in and out and even the latest runs with a Stock XP941 as well as that of one in a Sony VAIO. The simple fact is that the low 4K write scoring we see in OSX is, for the most part, consistent with the build and, even when testing Win7 in BootCamp, the same is seen.

Also, it merits mentioning that the SanDisk and Samsung performance deviates significantly, when examining both PCIe drives.

 

[macachia]

so the 1tb is a worthwhile upgrade for the new macbook pro retina?

 

[john123]

so the 1tb is a worthwhile upgrade for the new macbook pro retina?

Looks that way so far.

Keep the benchmarks coming, folks. I think this is helpful—at least for people in my shoes—when thinking about which capacity to choose and whether to upgrade from a mid-2012 or early-2013 model.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

so the 1tb is a worthwhile upgrade for the new macbook pro retina?

Its very fast my reads/writes are just short of 1k.

 

[Ferosin]

Late 2013 rMBP 15" 2.3/16gb/512gb SSD Samsung / 382gb free

Results 863.88
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9 (13A3017)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacBookPro11,3
Drive Type APPLE SSD SM0512F
Disk Test 863.88
Sequential 577.39
Uncached Write 1184.64 727.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 658.22 372.42 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 293.27 85.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 866.11 435.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1714.72
Uncached Write 1630.84 172.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1309.67 419.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 3822.95 27.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1440.02 267.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

It appears Xbench is not a good tool for measuring performance.

 

[mg428]

I'd love to see the manufacturer(s) and results of the mid-level 13-inch late 2013 Haswell rMBP equipped with 2.4/8GB/256GB.

 

[Hellhammer]

I'm withholding judgement until I see the anandtech review so I have a number I can use to compare apples with apples (if you'll pardon the accidental pun). I am hoping that 26MB/s for 4k random read speed is not the number anandtech get in their testing. The prev gen gets 45MB/s on Anandtechs 4k random read test.

Hopefully they are beavering away on the firmware for random performance tweaking now that sequential performance is so high. They need to get random 4k reads up in the 90-100MB/s like the leading SSDs ( or higher would be even better ). The rMBP SSD is made by samsung and samsungs 840 Pro gets 103MB/s on 4k random read.

Different queue depths, that's why. We use QD3 for our random read tests, while Xbench likely uses QD1.

 

[richard371]

Results 872.12
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9 (13A2093)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro11,1
Drive Type APPLE SSD SM0256F
Disk Test 872.12
Sequential 594.33
Uncached Write 1210.53 743.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 694.12 392.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 300.44 87.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 881.04 442.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1637.48
Uncached Write 1185.70 125.52 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1430.59 457.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 4008.24 28.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1536.33 285.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]

I'd love to see the manufacturer(s) and results of the mid-level 13-inch late 2013 Haswell rMBP equipped with 2.4/8GB/256GB.

 

[fskywalker]

Wow, the 1TB drive looks absurdly good across the board.

Yeap! the 1 TB PCIe in mine is blazing fast too!

 

[davidw]

Yeap! the one in mine is blazing fast too!

Same here. I'm getting ~980 MB/s read/writes on my new computer. It was definitely worth the extra money for this insane performance.

 

[lagisibuk]

I have question first,
are the result of this test is depend on "space available on ssd?". are the space available will affect in result test?

 

[Justinhub2003]

Model: Late-2013 2.3Ghz Haswell, 16GB RAM
SSD Size: 512GB
SSD Manufacturer SM (Samsung)
Free Space Currently on SSD: 394GB

 

[Ghostfacekillaz]

Model: Late-2013 2.6 GHz, 16GB RAM
SSD Size: 1TB
SSD Model: APPLE SSD SM1024F
Free Space Currently on SSD: 304GB

Results 1124.80

System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9.1 (13B3116)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacBookPro11,3
Drive Type APPLE SSD SM1024F

Disk Test 1124.80

Sequential 787.45
Uncached Write 1872.93 1149.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1273.09 720.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 316.78 92.71 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1657.07 832.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 1967.79
Uncached Write 1887.83 199.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1671.26 535.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 3577.47 25.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1599.62 296.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]


I really like!

 

[fskywalker]

Model: Late-2013 2.6 GHz, 16GB RAM
SSD Size: 1TB
SSD Model: APPLE SSD SM1024F
Free Space Currently on SSD: 304GB

Results 1124.80

System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9.1 (13B3116)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacBookPro11,3
Drive Type APPLE SSD SM1024F

Disk Test 1124.80

Sequential 787.45
Uncached Write 1872.93 1149.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1273.09 720.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 316.78 92.71 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1657.07 832.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 1967.79
Uncached Write 1887.83 199.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1671.26 535.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 3577.47 25.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1599.62 296.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]


I really like!

These are mine (542GB used out of 1TB SSD on my 13" Haswell rMBP:

Xbench:

SSD Size: 1TB
SSD Model: APPLE SSD SM1024F
Free Space Currently on SSD: 304GB

Results 1080.96

System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9.1 (13B3116)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacBookPro11,1
Drive Type APPLE SSD SM1024F

Disk Test 1080.96

Sequential 745.35
Uncached Write 1830.58 1123.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 908.70 514.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 346.60 100.56 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1235.39 620.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 1966.32
Uncached Write 1863.18 197.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1643.66 526.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 3586.86 25.42 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1638.40 304.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Black Magic:

I love my Samsung SSD !!!

 

[imorton]

What I don't understand though, if 4k Random read/write is really the important figure, than my Early 2011 13" MBP is doing rather well.

If I look at the 4k random read/write numbers, it shows me that the performance difference between my old 2011 MBP and a 2013 rMBP would be minimal, negligible, or not worth mentioning….?

Just curious about the numbers.

 

[dihydrogenoxide]

Model: Early-2013 2.7Ghz Ivy Bridge, 16GB RAM
SSD Size: 512GB
SSD Manufacturer SD (SanDisk?)
Free Space Currently on SSD: 473GB



I'm not sure about SD512 == Sandisk, but either way those are disappointing results compared to what other people are getting. I haven't seen any other early 2013's here; I wonder how common my setup is...