Apple Units - Geekbench Benchmarks

22/10/17 14:50 Filed in: Apple

A few people have been asking me for GeekBench stats - so I thought I'd put them all in one place.

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Two years ago I ran some benchmark stats on the Apple gear I was using at the time. An iPad Air 2, MacBook 12", 2015 MacBook Pro, and a 2015 iMac. Much of that kit has now been re-purposed so I thought it would be a good time to revisit the GeekBench scores of my current kit for comparison.

Now, they won't be a direct comparison as I've had other kit in between (2016 MacBook Pro for example, a couple of 12" units, and some 13's I think), but it's of reasonable interest to me.

You can see the original figures further down the article.

Just look at the performance of the iPhone processor - how much power is that for a phone! Quite bonkers, it's got more processing power than my 13" 2017 unit.

Apple iPad Pro 10.5"
2017-10-22iPadPro

Apple iPhone 8 PLUS
Screenshot 2017-10-22 15.00.56

2017 Macbook Pro 15" - 2.9Ghz i7
Screenshot 2017-10-22 14.55.06

2017 Macbook Pro 13" Non-Touchbar
Screenshot 2017-10-22 14.55.57

2015 5k iMac
Screenshot 2017-10-22 14.57.10

2017 5k 4.2Ghz i7 iMac
2017-11-30i7iMac

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Original Article 26/10/2015

So. Geekbench Processor Stats. I've been asked to run Geekbench benchmarks on a number of different devices recently, so I thought I'd collate and put them in one place. If you click on the images you can download the actual GB file.

First, let's look at the summary.

2015-10-26Summary

Single & multi-cure are obvious. MC Increase is the % increase on the previous device.

Win 10 MC is the GeekBench multi-core score from running Windows 10 in Parallels. In all instances the machines have 4Gb and all the cores allocated to the VM.

% loss to virtualisation is the GeekBench loss when running virtualised.

The jump up between the Macbook and the rMBP is fairly significant isn't it! Then the step up to the new i5 Quad Core units is….very minor. Same performance pretty much, bar seeing slightly better virtualisation performance.

Apple iPad Air 2 128Gb/Cellular