Quick Apple MacBook Pro benchmarks (2021 Apple silicon vs 2019 Intel)

Perhaps the best developer machine in the market at the moment, would be the Apple MacBook Pro M1Pro/M1Max. Its blazing fast, as can be seen in the below tests I ran to calculate the compilation time of a large xCode codebase. I used the XcodeBenchmark code from https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark and compared an older spec Macbook Pro 16 inch 2019, 8-core Intel core i9 2.3Ghz 16GB RAM vs Macbook Pro 16 inch 2021, M1Pro 10 core , 32GB

The M1Pro finished the build in 1 min 39 sec compared to 17 min 21 sec by the not so old intel based MacBook. Just goes to show how much of a leap Apple has made with Apple silicon.

Quicker build times = happier developers.

PS: This isn't the most scientific test/benchmark if I can give that as a warning :-)