Looking at Cinebench with its graphics rendering and CPU tests, both the familiar R11.5 and the latest R15 versions, we saw a similar fractional increase in CPU performance. Compare this with 3124 and 12,044 points for last year’s MacBook with 2.3 GHz Core i7, and we see a inconsequential 0.8 and 2.2 percent changes.

In the Geekbench 3 test of processor and memory performance, it averaged 3148 points for a single thread and 12,306 points in multi-core mode. New 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (early 2015) preview.ĭespite the slower clock of this entry-level version – 2.0 GHz against the 2.3 GHz of the first Retina Mac, and 2.4 GHz of its February revision – this MacBook Pro does run faster than before. Update: Apple unveiled new MacBook Pro models at itsĩ March 2015 press event. The real coming-out party for Intel graphics required a crucial update from Apple though – namely the unlocking of OpenCL to work on integrated graphics processors, now enabled in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Once a recipe for slow-motion slide shows in place of fluid gaming video, Intel’s integrated graphics may finally have come of age, if our test of the recent 21.5-inch iMac are any indicator.

It’s still not exactly cheap, but the £1699 entry-level MacBook Pro (15-inch, Retina, Late 2013) relies entirely on the Iris Pro graphics solution that’s embedded within a Core i7 quad-core processor. And more recently, we’ve seen low-power Intel graphics included too, with automatic switching that powers up the full-bore graphics only when relevant applications are running. Every 15-inch Apple laptop since the PowerBook G4 has included either an ATI (AMD) or nVidia graphics processor.

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