This should compare the pure processing power as the whole operation does not need to interact with the data at all.Īs you can see, it seems that the M1 processor in the Mac mini can really provide the same processing power as the Core i7, even under the Rosetta emulation engine. Ready for some charts? Let’s start with some pure scripting, finding prime numbers smaller than 50,000. To also have some essence of the Mac mini’s absolute speed, I also included the recent tests performed on the 12 years old Mac Pro in my comparison. My tests included running 5 server-side scrips simultaneously. So I executed my tests, first locally in FileMaker Pro, then over LAN connecting from MacBook Pro to each Mac mini running FileMaker Server. Everything else was smooth and I have not experienced any compatibility issues at all. This was actually the only moment I noticed any mention of Rosetta. Since these versions are not built native for Apple silicon yet, I was asked to also install Rosetta during the installation. I installed the latest released version of FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Server on both minis, that is FileMaker Pro 19.1.3 and FileMaker Server 19.1.2.
So that’s what I compared the M1 mini to: To compare that to something, the most powerful Mac mini configuration you can currently get with Intel processor is 3.2GHz Core i7 with 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD. From the newest model, I have used the M1 Mac mini with 16GB RAM and 1TB flash storage, running the latest macOS Big Sur: To make my tests reasonable, I wanted to try something that is likely to be used as a small FileMaker Server. So how exactly do the Apple and Intel-made CPU’s compared when running FileMaker? Test Environment When just looking at it, laying on the desk, you can’t really tell which Mac mini you have. I was very nicely surprised, that even under the Rosetta emulation, it performed as well as on the latest Core i7 Mac mini. I executed the same quick test with 1000 records I recently used for my first performance tests of FileMaker Pro 19.1.3 and FileMaker Server 19.1.2. We have received our first Mac mini with the Apple’s new M1 processor, so I could not resist to test how Claris FileMaker performs on this new hardware.
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