Benchmarks for the Newly Updated Retina Display MacBook Pros [Charts]

Primate Labs has posted benchmarks for the new 13-inch and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros. The benchmarks are based on GeekBench 3 results.

For the 15-inch MacBook Pro, processor speeds were increased by 200 MHz, leading to a 6% to 9% increase in performance:





For the 13-inch MacBook Pro, processor speeds were also increased by 200 MHz, leading to a 7% to 8% increase in performance (note that we do not yet have results for the new high-end model):


As expected these are modest performance enhancements. More significant speed improvements should come with the Intel Broadwell processors next year.

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