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Title: The new MacBook Air benchmarks are 75% faster than its predecessor
Post by: HCK on March 22, 2020, 04:05:21 pm
The new MacBook Air benchmarks are 75% faster than its predecessor

That's according to the earliest Geekbench 5 scores.

What you need to know


Apple released a new MacBook Air this week.
The earliest benchmark scores are starting to roll in.
Initial reports show a marked improvement on the 2018 model.


Apple's new MacBook Air may well be benchmarking up to 75% faster than its predecessor according to the very earliest benchmarks.

MacRumors has taken some early scores posted by Jason Snell from Six Colors and averaged them with other Geekbench 5 results.

According to their report:


  Jason Snell of Six Colors was provided with the mid-range MacBook Air with a 1.1GHz quad-core Core i5 processor for testing purposes. In his first impressions article this morning, he shared Geekbench 5 benchmark results for this configuration, including a single-core score of 1,047 and a multi-core score of 2,658.
 
  We averaged Snell's results with ten other Geekbench 5 results to end up with a single-core score of 1,072 and multi-core score of 2,714, suggesti...

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