Gaming and AI benchmarks
One suite every product is mapped to: the games that push a graphics card, the AI work people run at home, and the standard synthetic tests. We don't run them ourselves; every figure is quoted from the publication or database that did, with a link and a date.
Gaming
fpsCD Projekt Red's open-world shooter and the standard ray tracing and path tracing test, with a built-in benchmark. Native on Apple silicon …40products ranked → fpsRemedy's survival horror game, among the heaviest on a graphics card, with full path tracing.14products ranked → fpsUnreal Engine 5 action game with a free standalone benchmark tool and full ray tracing.15products ranked → fpsValve's competitive shooter: hundreds of frames a second, where the processor is as often the limit as the graphics card.31products ranked → fpsEpic's battle royale on Unreal Engine 5, with Lumen and Nanite at its top settings.13products ranked → fpsLarian's role-playing game, native on Mac and PC, so one game can set a Mac against a graphics card.5products ranked → fpsFrames a second with the kit fitted and the reviewer's processor and graphics card fixed; the preset names the game and settings …10products ranked → pointsUL's gaming storage test: loading games, saving progress, installing a game and recording gameplay, traced from real games; the overall score.11products ranked → GB/sUL's DirectStorage feature test: how fast game assets stream from the drive; the preset names the path ("Storage to VRAM, GDeflate" is …8products ranked → AI
tok/sTokens a second generating text from an open model run locally with llama.cpp or a tool built on it (Ollama, LM Studio). …24products ranked → pointsUL's standardised local-LLM benchmark (Phi, Mistral, Llama models), an overall score per model.9products ranked → pointsPrimate Labs' machine learning benchmark; the preset names the framework and precision ("Core ML Neural Engine, Quantized").4products ranked → sSeconds to load an open model from the drive into memory, averaged over repeated loads; the model field names it.6products ranked → Creative
samples/minBlender Open Data's median score over its three scenes (monster, junkshop, classroom); the preset names the device and Blender version.47products ranked → Synthetic
pointsSingle-core and multi-core scores in Geekbench 6, from reviewers and the Geekbench Browser; the preset says which.28products ranked → pointsThe Geekbench 6 compute score; the preset names the API (Metal, OpenCL, Vulkan).9products ranked → pointsUL's cross-platform graphics test (Windows, macOS, iOS), so a Mac and a PC card meet on one score.6products ranked → pointsMaxon's CPU rendering test; single-core and multi-core.23products ranked → MB/sSequential read and write (Q8T1, 1 MiB); the preset says which.9products ranked → MB/sAIDA64's cache and memory benchmark: how many megabytes a second the processor reads, writes or copies to the kit; the preset says …5products ranked → nsAIDA64's memory latency: nanoseconds for the processor to fetch from the kit. Tighter timings and a 1:1 memory controller ratio bring it …4products ranked → pointsUL's trace-based storage test from everyday applications; the preset names the variant ("Data Drive"), none for the reviewer's standard run.11products ranked → MB/sAverage write speed over a long sequential write, after the drive's fast cache fills - what a big game install or video …10products ranked → GB/sSiSoftware Sandra's memory bandwidth test, in gigabytes a second; a different tool from AIDA64, so the two are not compared.9products ranked → nsSiSoftware Sandra's memory latency test, in nanoseconds; a different tool from AIDA64, so the two are not compared.9products ranked →