Good news! The 2012 MacBook Air's factory SSD is now 6Gb/s rated. At the settings we used, Portal 2 ran 54% faster while World of Warcraft ran only slightly faster on the 2012 MacBook Air compared to the 2011 MacBook Air. Memory performance was 22% faster.Ĭinebench's OpenGL test ran 58% faster on the 2012 MacBook Air with Intel HD 4000 GPU compared to the 2011 MacBook Air with Intel HD 3000 GPU. The 'mid 2012' MacBook Air ran the Cinebench CPU test 26% faster than the 2011 MacBook Air even though the CPU core frequency was only 11% faster. The three internal flash storage examples?Īura 6G = OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6Gb/s 240GB Solid State DriveĢ012 MBA 2.0 = Factory 6Gb/s 251GB Solid State DriveĢ011 MBA 1.8 = Factory 3Gb/s 256GB Solid State Drive Using QuickBench we ran the Custom Sequential Test with 1GB test size and averaged 5 cycles. Settings were 'HIGH' preset with Liquid Detail set to FAIR and Sunshafts DISABLED. The Performance module from the TItan Panel Addon computes average frames per second. RED bar means fastest.įor Portal 2, the settings were 4X MSAA, 4X Anisotropic Filtering, Vertical Sync Disabled, Multicore Rendering Enabled, Shader Detail High, Effect Detail High, Model/Texture Detail High.įor World of Warcraft Cataclysm (4.3.4), we did our Narache Village Totem to Tree to Totem Run. RED bar means fastest.Ĭinebench includes a 'car chase' 3D animation to measure OpenGL speed in frames per second. Geekbench 2.3.3 measures Integer and Floating Point computations as well as memory speed. And for reality check, we included results from the fastest 2011 MacBook Pro and fastest 2012 'Retina' MacBook Pro.Ģ012 RMBP 2.7 = 'mid 2012' Retina MacBook Pro 2.7GHz Quad-Core i7 with 16GB of RAM and GeForce GT 650M GPUĢ011 MBP 2.5 = 'late 2011' MacBook Pro 2.5GHz Quad-Core i7 with 16GB of RAM and Radeon HD 6770M GPU.Ģ012 MBA 2.0 = 'mid 2012' MacBook Air 2.0GHz Dual-Core i7 with 8GB of RAM and Intel HD 4000 GPU.Ģ011 MBA 1.8 = 'mid 2011' MacBook Air 1.8GHz Dual-Core i7 with 4GB of RAM and Intel HD 3000 GPU.Ĭinebench 11.5 uses all cores to render a 3D image. We decided to compare the two fastest configurations of each. As we reported June 12th, the 'mid 2012' MacBook Air has significant performance advances over the 2011 model.

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