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Apple Silicon Bench is a native macOS benchmark tool focused on Apple Silicon Macs (M-series and A-series). It measures CPU, GPU, memory, disk, and AI performance with transparent scoring and local-only execution.

Start Here

• Getting Started - Install or build the binary
• Usage - CLI commands and flags
• Benchmark Details - What each test measures
• Scoring Methodology - How scores are calculated
• System Info and Privacy - Data collected and sensitivity
• FAQ - Common questions and troubleshooting
• Roadmap - Planned features and versioning

Quick Start

# Run all benchmarks (default: 10s per category)
osx-bench run

# Quick mode (faster, higher variance)
osx-bench run --quick

# Run selected benchmarks only
osx-bench run --only cpu-single,cpu-multi,memory,disk

# System info (brief)
osx-bench info

# Extended system info (GPU, disk, battery)
osx-bench info --extended

What You Get

• CPU single-core and multi-core tests
• GPU Metal compute tests
• Memory bandwidth and latency (pointer-chase) tests
• Disk sequential and random I/O tests
• Thermal state tracking
• Local HTML report saved to ~/Desktop/OSX-Bench-Reports/

Links

• Issues: https://github.com/carlosacchi/apple-silicon-bench/issues
• Releases: https://github.com/carlosacchi/apple-silicon-bench/releases
• README: https://github.com/carlosacchi/apple-silicon-bench#readme