Apple MacBook Air 15 (Mid-2023) review – the new 15-inch MacBook Air is all you expect it to be
Performance: CPU, GPU, Storage
CPU performance
The SoC of choice here is the Apple M2. It comes with 8 CPU cores (4 Performance and 4 Efficiency) and 10 GPU cores. In addition, there are 16 Neural Engine cores, while the memory bandwidth caps at 100 GB/s. Our model is equipped with 8GB of the aforementioned RAM.
Results are from the Cinebench 20 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
CPU Benchmarks | single/multi Geekbench 6 |
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Apple MacBook Air 15 (Mid-2023) | 2631/10087 |
GPU performance
Results are from the 3DMark: Wild Life benchmark (higher the score, the better)
GPU Benchmarks | GFXBench Manhattan 3.0 (1080p offscreen) | GFXBench Manhattan 3.1 (1080p offscreen) | GFXBench Aztec Ruins OpenGL (1080p offscreen) | GeekBench 5 Compute OpenCL | GeekBench 5 Compute Metal |
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Apple MacBook Air 15 (Mid-2023) | 533 fps | 370 fps | 289 fps | 27856 (Geekbench 6) | 46025 (Geekbench 6) |
Apple MacBook Air (M2, 2022) | 478 fps | 319 fps | 247 fps | 23824 | 26182 |
Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2022, M2) | 552 fps | 370 fps | 296 fps | 35262 | 38692 |
Apple MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro (8C/14C) | 818 fps | 496 fps | 394 fps | 35262 | 38692 |
Apple MacBook Air M1 | 404 fps | 273 fps | 214 fps | – | – |
Apple MacBook Pro 13 M1 | 407 fps | 274 fps | 215 fps | – | – |
Storage
Our unit is equipped with 256GB of storage. It is able to reach speeds of 1642 MB/s during writing, and 1520 MB/s during reading.