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2017 MacBook Pro is Up to 20% Faster Than Last Year's Model in Benchmarks

Apple this week refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/05/apple-macbook-lineup-cpus-ssds-graphics/) with Intel's seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/03/intel-announces-kaby-lake-processors/), and early benchmarks for the notebooks suggest the 2017 models are up to 20 percent faster than the equivalent 2016 models equipped with Intel's sixth-generation Skylake processors.





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Specifically, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with a 2.9GHz Core i7 processor has average single-core and multi-core scores of 4,632 and 15,747 respectively based on nearly a dozen Geekbench 4 results (http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=MacBookPro14%2C3) so far.





By comparison, last year's 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with a sixth-generation 2.7GHz Core i7 processor, which was the equivalent high-end stock configuration, has average single-core and multi-core scores of 4,098 and 13,155 respectively based on over 4,800 Geekbench 4 results (http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=model:%22MacBook%20Pro%20(15-inch%20Late%202016)%22%20platform:%22Mac%22%20processor:%22Intel%20Core%20i7-6820HQ%22%20frequency:2700%20bits:64).





On a model-vs-model basis, the benchmark results suggest the 2017 MacBook Pro with a 2.9GHz processor is up to 13 percent faster in single-core performance, and up to 19.7 percent faster in multi-core performance, than the equivalent 2016 MacBook Pro model. Its price remains unchanged at $2,799.





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There's only one Geekbench result (http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/3038252) for the new 15-inch MacBook Pro's base configuration with a 2.8GHz Core i7 processor, but the benchmarks suggest that model is up to 9.5 percent faster than the equivalent 2016 MacBook Pro equipped with a sixth-generation 2.6GHz Core i7 processor.





There are no Geekbench results yet for the new 15-inch MacBook Pro's highest-end built-to-order configuration with a seventh-generation 3.1GHz Core i7 processor, so its performance cannot be compared to the equivalent built-to-order 2016 MacBook Pro with a sixth-generation 2.9GHz Core i7 processor.

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