Selecting the right Apple Silicon generation for efficient iOS CI - Bitrise webinar

Bitrise

Aug 21, 2025

As economic conditions have changed, engineering teams are learning to be more efficient with their infrastructure spending. So how do engineering and infra teams choose what Apple Silicon hardware is the best fit for their CI workloads and overall business?

In this webinar, Ben Boral weighs the pros and cons of each machine type and explains how teams can choose the right one, while Adam Wareing of ABC discusses his team’s migration to the M2 Pro.

Speakers:
🎙️ Ben Boral, Staff Solutions Engineer @ Bitrise
🎙️ Adam Wareing, Mobile Technical Lead @ ABC

The webinar took place on 21 October 2024.

⟣- TIMESTAMPS-⟢-
00:00 – Intro!
03:07 – Benchmark insights: M2 Ultra vs. M3 Max performance
06:00 – Key hardware factors affecting build speed + performance vs. efficiency cores in Apple Silicon
9:40 – A bit about virtualization
15:06 – Xcode build performance benchmarking across Mac models
19:27 – Summary based on project type
21:52 – ABC’s story: CI infrastructure upgrade, dramatic improvements in build times
27:31– Telegraf tool
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