Apple Silicone MacBook Air SSD reported to be roughly twice as fast as its predecessor – Engadget Japan

While new Mac models equipped with Apple’s silicone “M1” chip are reaching customers one after another, SSD benchmarks equipped with the M1 version of MacBook Air have been released by general users, and it is about twice as fast as the previous model. It is reported that.

According to benchmark results posted on Apple MacRumors related information site reader forum, the write speed of the new MacBook Air integrated SSD is 2190MB / s, read is 2675MB / s, and model above (1007MB / s and 1319MB / s, respectively) Shown to be about double.

However, at the time of the announcement at the “One More Thing” event on the 13th, Apple stated that “SSD performance is up to two times faster with the M1 chip storage controller and the latest flash technology,” and It is nominal. That’s right.

That doesn’t mean that SSDs are faster thanks to the new Mac. In fact, the MacBook Air (2019) SSD has a benchmark result showing that the read speed can be 35% slower than the MacBook Air. (2018), so verification with the real machine is still essential.

TechCrunch also compiles the open source code for Safari’s Webkit rendering engine for various versions of Intel and Mac M1 chips to measure the time required. The results show that the MacBook Air M1 outperforms the 13-inch Intel MacBook Pro (2020).

With the fastest SSD above, Apple says, “Previewing huge images and reading large files is faster than ever.” The M1-equipped Mac is just an experimental machine from the original Apple chip, and some people thought it would take time to mature, but it may have the practicality of improving productivity right away.

Source: MacRumors, TechCrunch (US)