This month’s WWDC saw Apple refreshing the much overdue Mac line-up. Apple announced some serious upgrades to their MacBook Pro line-up and made some pretty tall claims about their performance. Geekbench did a hardcore performance test to see how much water those claims hold.
“The new 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with a 2.9GHz Core i7 processor has average Single-core and multi-core scores of 4,632 and 15,747 respectively. By comparison, last year’s 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with a sixth-generation 2.7 GHz Core i7 processor, which was the equivalent high-end stock configuration, has average Single-core and multi-core scores of 4,098 and 13,155 respectively,” observes MacRumors.
The improvement in performance is more prominent in the multi-core model, which clocked at 19.7% faster than last year’s model. On the other hand, the single-core model came out with a 13% improvement.
Geekbench only tested the lower configuration model of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro, which features a 2.8GHz Core i7 processor, as compared to a sixth-generation 2.6GHz Core i7 processor in the same model from last year. The change in performance was pegged at 9.5% after the results of four tests were averaged out.
There’s no doubt that the new MacBook Pros are faster than last year’s models. What’s interesting to note, however, is the fact that the higher performing models saw a more significant improvement than those that were mid- or lover-end.
You can check out the detailed results by Geekbench by clicking on this link.