MacBook Pro 16 SSD Speed Benchmark Results

[cp1160]

Has anyone else benchmarked their MBP 16 SSD on or seen a benchmark result?

I used BlackMagic on my 2TB SSD. The results of my testing (repeated over 3 days now):

Write Speed (average over multiple tests): 2825 MB/s with highest at nearly 2850 MB/s

Read Speed (average over multiple tests): 2625 MB/s with highest at 2675 MB/s or so

I'm not a benchmark type person usually, but I wanted to see how the speed of this new MBP 16 compared to my MacBook Pro 13 2019 so I ran it.

I've not had a benchmark where the Write Speed was faster than the Read Speed before but did some research and some other SSDs seem to have this happen. I'm assuming it must be due to how BlackMagic tests? Maybe 4K reads versus larger writes or something?

Not an issue, just something I noticed.

 

[Tomcaster]

I’ve had pretty identical results on my 2TB SSD

 

[Super Spartan]

Has anyone else benchmarked their MBP 16 SSD on or seen a benchmark result?

I used BlackMagic on my 2TB SSD. The results of my testing (repeated over 3 days now):

Write Speed (average over multiple tests): 2825 MB/s with highest at nearly 2850 MB/s

Read Speed (average over multiple tests): 2625 MB/s with highest at 2675 MB/s or so

I'm not a benchmark type person usually, but I wanted to see how the speed of this new MBP 16 compared to my MacBook Pro 13 2019 so I ran it.

I've not had a benchmark where the Write Speed was faster than the Read Speed before but did some research and some other SSDs seem to have this happen. I'm assuming it must be due to how BlackMagic tests? Maybe 4K reads versus larger writes or something?

Not an issue, just something I noticed. View attachment 878216

That sounds right, here are my results on my previous MBP 15 2019 with a 2TB SSD

 

[dsc888]

I have the 1 TB SSD on my new 16 inch MBP 2.3 i9/5500M and I'm getting:

Highest Write: 2899.7 MB/s

Highest READ: 2810.2 MB/s

It does appear the 1 TB is every slightly faster than the 2 TB units form what I've seen with this benchmark.

 

[cp1160]

Thanks for the posts on your results.

The 2TB I have is plenty fast, far faster than any other Apple-supplied SSDs in Macs I have and a solid option for me. No regrets.

Apple often had the fastest SSDs out there on my older Apple laptops, but these new SSDs, while really fast, are not as fast as the WD Black SN750 2TB NVMe the guy that supports my networking put in his gaming laptop. He's getting around 3450 MB/S. Not even sure if those are the fastest, I think there are faster ones. I'm good though...it handles 4K videos and 250MB to 1 GB photoshop files like nothing.

 

[iemcj]

How do you run black magic on your internal drive? It only let's me read external drives, if I try to read the "macintosh HD" it says

Disk speed test cannot be run on the selected location because it is read only.

 

[smbu2000]

R/W speeds in MBPs haven't increased by that much since the 2016 MBPs.
I get about 2700/2700 on my 2TB 2018 15" MBP and my previous 2TB 2016 15" MBP got about 2600/2600 I believe.

The current fastest drives are most likely the PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives which do about 5000 Read and 4400 Write. Of course you do need a PCIe 4.0 compatible motherboard such as the X570 with a Ryzen 3000 series CPU.
Intel CPUs are still limited to PCIe 3.0, so the speed limit on them is capped at about 3500. PCIe 4.0 drives have a limit of 7000 and speeds will probably increase above the 5000/4400 on these first gen. drives.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1893-pcie-4-vs-pcie-3-ssd/

 

[powerslave12r]

Unfortunate to see that they didn't go with PCIe 4.0. Those would have been a real step up. Something like 4800/4800 read/writes.

 

[AustinIllini]

How do you run black magic on your internal drive? It only let's me read external drives, if I try to read the "macintosh HD" it says

Disk speed test cannot be run on the selected location because it is read only.

check the app permissions maybe?

 

[seangrimes590]

Unfortunate to see that they didn't go with PCIe 4.0. Those would have been a real step up. Something like 4800/4800 read/writes.

Intel problem, no PCIe 4 Intel CPUs. Not much apple can do there.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

How do you run black magic on your internal drive? It only let's me read external drives, if I try to read the "macintosh HD" it says

Disk speed test cannot be run on the selected location because it is read only.

There’s strangeness under Catalina
https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/08/macos-catalina-boot-volume-layout/

You may have to make sure you’re testing the RIGHT Macintosh HD

 

[bsbeamer]

For Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, make sure you're selecting a folder in the user account with full read/write permissions (such as documents or desktop). Without major workarounds, you cannot perform this test on the root of the system drive.

AJA System Test Lite is another app to try if you continue to run into issues:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aja-system-test-lite/id1092006274?mt=12

 

[Super Spartan]

@cp1160

Here is my Apple 4TB SSD Benchmark:

 

[Chevysales]

Here’s mine from 16” 2.4/32GB/2TB.. I never had to pick drive it just ran. I found a help file in settings and this was 5gb writes according to settings.

Anyone run their Geekbench?
Mine was:
Single Core- 1143
Multi Core- 7223
OpenCL- 28094
Metal- 29953

 

[pneves1975]

MacBook Pro 15 2018 512GB

 

[cp1160]

Here’s mine from 16” 2.4/32GB/2TB.. I never had to pick drive it just ran. I found a help file in settings and this was 5gb writes according to settings.


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Anyone run their Geekbench?
Mine was:
Single Core- 1143
Multi Core- 7223
OpenCL- 28094
Metal- 29953

Everyone appears to be getting consistent speeds.

Enjoying my 16" and slowly transitioning more tasks to it, so far keeping my photo and video tasks on it. My day to day still on my ole 17" MBP...but it is showing its age and having some application stability issues. Not sure I can restore it back to a clean state anymore after 9+ years.

Thanks for adding to my OP.

 

[Julian24]

16'' MBP 2.4/16GB/512GB

 

[Hexley]

When a MBP based on PCIe 6.0 comes out in 2025 its SSD would be able to do ~8GB/s to up to ~32GB/s.

 

[Fosdyke]

16'' MBP i9-9880H/16Gb/1Tb

 

[cp1160]

Looks like your newer version had a pickup in SSD speed. They are fast...but not the fasted SSDs anymore. I have one in non-Apple laptop that is significantly faster. Not much in the real world maybe, but in the benchmarks big difference.

Just wish I had the newer one with the 5600 not the 5500 graphics card.

 

[nkurtar]

MBP 16 2.4/16/512GB

 

[MCKLMT]

MBP 13" 2020 | i7, 32GB, 1TB