Benchmarks

Codemagic released the powerful Mac mini M2 for the developers to build and test their apps faster. This document contains tests run on popular open-source native iOS projects to give you an idea about the fast speed in a real-world scenario and the comparison with M2 and M1 machines.

Xcode Benchmark

The first project is the famous XcodeBenchmark used to provide an idea about the performance of Mac mini M2 and Mac mini M1. It is a framework that includes 42 popular CocoaPods libraries and 70+ dependencies in total.

Test name	Codemagic (Mac mini M2)	Codemagic (Mac mini M1)
Running Benchmark Tests	3m 35s	5m 35s

• codemagic.yaml

• Codemagic Mac mini M2 Workflow

• Codemagic Mac mini M1 Workflow

Wikipedia iOS

The official Wikipedia iOS app is open-sourced. It also contains multiple dependencies and hundreds of tests.

Test name	Codemagic (Mac mini M2)	Codemagic (Mac mini M1)
Building Project	1m 20s	1m 42s
Running Tests	2m 34s	3m 27s

• codemagic.yaml

• Codemagic Mac mini M2 Workflow

• Codemagic Mac mini M1 Workflow

Signal iOS

Signal is a free, open source, messaging app for simple private communication with friends. It is a great project for testing out benchmarks that replicates a real-world application.

Test name	Codemagic (Mac mini M2)	Codemagic (Mac mini M1)
Building and Testing	6m 51s	7m 37s

• codemagic.yaml

• Codemagic Mac mini M2 Workflow

• Codemagic Mac mini M1 Workflow

Mastodon iOS

The official Mastodon iOS app's repository is available as open-source.

Test name	Codemagic (Mac mini M2)	Codemagic (Mac mini M1)
Building Project	2m 12s	2m 50s

• codemagic.yaml

• Codemagic Mac mini M2 Workflow

• Codemagic Mac mini M1 Workflow