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Ruby/Rails Performance Comparison of Intel, M1 Max, M2 Max (harding.blog)
16 points by wbharding on Feb 8, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



As a Rails dev on a 16" i9 machine identical to yours, this is helpful because I've been thinking about getting an M2 Max but have wondered if it's worth it versus getting a nice refurb M1 on the cheap.

But good lord, it takes 48 seconds to run 20 tests? I'm curious what kind of tests are these? The test suite for the Rails product I work on is ~5000 specs and takes about 90 seconds on my i9 and I thought that was painfully slow.


I didn’t benchmark anything so take this anecdote with a grain of salt.

When upgrading from a MacBook Pro i7 with 32g of ram to a MacBook Air M2 with 24gb I saw my rspec suite get 4 times faster.


Wow, that is impressive. I need to get off the Intel chip.


Interesting to see the big jumó from M1 Max to m2 Max.

I wish the article would go into detail on why they think this occurred.

I’m eagerly waiting for more m2 pro/Max benchmarks, for python and specially with Docker, hoping that there’s a good performance bump there even if it still works with VMs




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