GEEKBENCH MAC PRO 12 CORE BENCHMARK FOR MAC
While 2012 has been a good year for Mac performance, I’m excited to see what Apple has in store for 2013. It’s now possible to buy a Mac that scores over 10,000 in Geekbench, uses less than 11W of power when idle. Both the mid- and high-end Mac minis are surprisingly fast for such small computers.Only the 15-inch MacBook Pros, with their quad-core processors, are significantly faster than the MacBook Air.
Now, while the low-end 11-inch MacBook Air is still the slowest Mac available, the high-end 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs are competitive with the rest of Apple’s portable lineup.
When the MacBook Air was introduced in 2008, many were concerned whether it was fast enough to get “real work” done. You no longer need a large Mac (or, for that matter, a desktop Mac) to have a fast Mac. There’s only a minor performance difference between the quad-core Core i7 desktops and the quad-core Core i7 laptops. Both the 4-core and 8-core Mac Pros have been eclipsed by Apple’s latest 4-core laptops and desktops. However, the Mac Pro processor architecture is starting to show its age. Even though the Mac Pro hasn’t had a significant update in over two years, the 6- and 12-core Mac Pros are still the fastest Macs available. Mac Performance (2012 Models)Ī few things from the chart stood out at me: Curious how your Mac compares (especially if you’re wondering if it’s time to upgrade)? Download Geekbench and find out how your Mac measures up to the Macs on this chart. Not familiar with Geekbench? It’s a cross-platform benchmark that measures processor and memory performance. I’ve collected Geekbench results from the Mac Benchmark chart for all of the Macs that are currently available from Apple. Now that 2012 is almost over I thought it would be interesting to look at all of the Macs released this year and see how they perform compared to one another.
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