New MacBook Pros 6-9% Faster than Their Predecessors

No sooner had Apple announced the updated line of MacBook Pro backed with the latest Haswell chip, than the web emerged with the detailed devices testing results in the Geekbench 3. Primate Labs’s test evaluates the throughput of the laptops’ processors and the system memory.

New MacBook Pro with 13 – and 15-inch Retina displays hardly differs from the laptops presented last year. And now to be serious, Apple equipped the entire line with more powerful higher-frequency Intel Core processors. In particular in the 13-inch MacBook Pro the dual-core Intel Core i5 clock speed increased from 2.4 to 2.6 GHz (from 2.9 to 3.1 GHz in the “turbo” mode). Superior modification now features a 2.8 GHz chip (boosted to 3.3 GHz), not a 2.6 GHz one as previously.

MacBook Pro laptops with 15.4-inch screen are also available in two basic versions. They received a less expensive 4-core Core i7 processor of 2.2-3.4 GHz (2.0-3.2 GHz previously). A more expensive modification has a Core i7 chip of 2.5-3.7 GHz (2.3-3.5 GHz previously). 15-inch models come with 16 GB of RAM instead of 8 GB.

In the Geekbench test the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Intel Core i5-4278U (2.6 GHz) processor reached the benchmark of 2832 points in testing with one core, and 5887 points in multi-mode. The model with the Intel Core i5-4308U (2.8 GHz) chip showed the results of 3012 and 6263 points respectively.

For comparison, last fall the benchmarks in the same test of 13-inch MacBook Pro test (with Core i5-4288U) were somewhat modest – 2817/5817 points, while the superior modification (Core i5-4558U) achieved 2979/6038 points. Thus, the difference in performance between the 13-inch MacBook Pro releases of 2014 and 2013 is 7-8%.

Primate Labs experts also tested 15-inch MacBook Pros. The benchmarks of the models with Intel Core i7-4770HQ (2.2 GHz); Core i7-4870HQ (2.5 GHz) and Core i7-4980HQ processors are 3073, 3284 and 3544 points in a single-core test and 11624, 12462 and 13570 respectively in a multi-core test. The difference in performance between the 15-inch Pro-devices versions produced in 2014 and 2013 is 6-9%.

The price of the updated MacBook Pros remained at the same level in the U.S. and European countries.

Source: macdigger.ru