If Fusion Drive is working, we should see timings that are comparable to our Retina MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, since they both use flash storage. Since Fusion Drive works completely in the background, we decided to run time trials to see how fast the iMac starts, reboots and loads Adobe Photoshop 6. The new iMac was also substantially faster than both the Late 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro (Core i7-2720QM) and the Mid 2011 MacBook Air (Core i5-2557M). How much of this was due to the iMac’s superior Core i7-3770S processor or Fusion Drive was hard to tell, but it is clear that the new iMac is a speedy system. In all, its score of 13700 was the highest, easily surpassing the Mid 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina (Core i7-3720QM) by around 5%. To ensure Fusion Drive is being utilized (if at all), we ran Geekbench on the iMac several times before recording down its result. Geekbench runs a variety of tests that taxes individual components of a system such as the processor and memory and then gives an overall score of the system’s performance. We begin our iMac performance benchmarking with Geekbench, a popular Mac OS X benchmarking tool. These benchmarks run in Mac OS X and we’ll be pitting the iMac against three other Mac systems - a Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro, a Late 2011 MacBook Pro and a Mid 2011 MacBook Air. We began our benchmarking of the new iMac with Geekbench and testing the Fusion Drive. This test seemingly shows the Retina MacBook Air score right in-between the 12-inch MacBook and the 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar, which is coincidentally exactly how the Mac lineup looks in terms of pricing.įor more details on how the current MacBook lineup compares, be sure to read our full comparison right here.Performance (Part 1) Performance (Part 1) Geekbench scores aren’t always the best indicator of real-world performance, but they do offer general insight on how machines compare to one another. Single-core testing is closer, with the Pro scoring 4504. Last but not least, the MacBook Air is blown out of the water by the 2018 13-inch MacBook Pro, which scores a 16464 in multi-score testing, more than double the Air. In terms of multi-core, the Pro is 16 percent faster, according to Geekbench scores. ![]() Meanwhile, the MacBook Air offers similar performance improvements compared to the base model 12-inch MacBook, with a 20 percent improvement in single-core and a 17 percent increase in multi-core.Īs for the mid-2017 MacBook Pro without Touch Bar – which is priced $100 more than the Retina MacBook Air, the Pro scores roughly the same in single-core with a 4314 score. In terms of comparison to the mid-2017 MacBook Air, which features a 5th-generation dual-core Intel Core i5 processor at 1.8GHz, the 2018 Retina MacBook is roughly 27 percent faster in single-core and 28 percent faster in multi-core. On Geekbench, the new Retina MacBook Air with a 1.6GHz dual-core 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processor scores a ~4200 in single-core testing and ~7800 in multi-core testing. This comes after we saw the first iPad Pro 2018 Geekbench results this morning, which proved Apple’s claims about besting most PCs – including its own – true. Now, the first MacBook Air Geekbench scores are starting to hit the web and give more detail on that processor. Apple’s latest Retina MacBook Air has drawn some criticism over its processor choice.
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