Benchmarks for Mid-2012 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air

With the first Mid-2012 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models reaching the public, Primate Labs has collated some information from its Geekbench two benchmarking database to appraise the raw functioning of these systems compared to their predecessors.

For the MacBook Pro, Primate Labs has information on four different models: the new Retina model with 2.three GHz and 2.6 GHz processors and the non-Retina model with 2.iii GHz and 2.7 GHz processors. The pinnacle-of-the-line 2.vii GHz system registers with a Geekbench average score of 12,303, roughly xvi% higher than the top-of-the-line 2.5 GHz Sandy Bridge system from the previous generation.

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Notably, the leaked MacBook Pro criterion from mid-May does announced to take been legitimate, with details corresponding to the new non-Retina 15-inch MacBook Pro. That auto is designated MacBookPro9,1, while the 13-inch model is designated MacBookPro9,2. The Retina MacBook Pro appears equally MacBookPro10,ane.

On the MacBook Air side, summit-of-the-line systems are seeing boosts of over 20% in Geekbench scores over their corresponding predecessors. Equally with the MacBook Pro, even the depression-cease systems of the new generation outperform the loftier end of the previous generation.

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Geekbench testing focuses on processor and retentivity performance, providing comparisons of raw ability betwixt machines but only telling part of the story. Just with these machines seeing pregnant boosts in graphics performance with the addition of Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics and/or the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, and systems with solid-state drives using faster drives than in the previous generation, real-world performance should see marked comeback.

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