New Retina MacBook pro Processor Bumps offer Minor three-5% performance enhancements | Apple Day - Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook

Following last week’s introduction of new processors for the Retina MacBook pro lineup, Primate Labs has analyzed benchmarks coming in from the brand new machines throughout the company’s popular Geekbench 2 instrument.

Unsurprisingly, the benchmarks expose a roughly 3-5% increase in Geekbench scores for each of the processor bumps. For the 15-inch Retina MacBook professional lineup, Apple bumped every of the three to be had processors by means of a hundred MHz, accounting for the minor benchmark enhancements.

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One factor to notice is that the brand new mid-range Retina MacBook pro has the identical speed processor as the outdated high-finish Retina MacBook pro. on the other hand, the new mid-vary version is quite slower than the outdated high-end model. whereas this appears surprising in the beginning, the difference is easily explained through comparing the 2 processors: the outdated excessive-end processor has more cache than the brand new mid-range processor.

For the 13-inch lineup, the 100 MHz pace bumps have been limited to machines in accordance with the excessive-end inventory configuration beginning at 256 GB of storage, with these machines additionally seeing a three-5% improvement in Geekbench ratings.
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excluding the processor improvements for the Retina MacBook pro lineup, Apple also decreased pricing on the thirteen-inch fashions by $200-$300, elevated RAM on the high-end 15-inch stock configuration, and diminished pricing on storage options.