

However, we had Ethernet problems in a previous testing round (Mac mini uptime was 12 days). The M1 networking was very reliable during our final testing period. The goal was to measure network performance and the reliability for network file server deployment. We carried out these tests using the HELIOS G8 Universal File Server installation and its included HELIOS LanTest G8 tool. Network performance testing for file server use That the entry-level M1 Mac outperforms the high-end Intel Macs is very impressive.

The performance is about 30% faster compared to an Intel i9 Mac (2.3 GHz). Since our server applications use CPU features only, we didn't do any GPU performance testing. The reason for testing with four parallel tasks (4 CPUs) was because the M1 has four high-performance CPU cores, the remaining other four cores are for low-power only. Using our “imageconv” script, we tested four image conversions in parallel, which involves processing of all major image formats, PDF rendering and ICC color conversion. Performance testing: (4 cores in parallel) The HELIOS G8 release runs natively on Apple M1 processors (no Rosetta!). All testing has been performed with the HELIOS G8 server release, its tools and included sample images. We did additional testing of the new Apple Mac mini.
