Instead we should look to the performance gains over time of less obvious features like compute power to make our decisions. Especially with Apple devices where such big feature advances (like the Touch Bar) are few and far between. These benchmarks highlight that as consumers (and developers) we shouldn’t only rely on big feature advances when considering an upgrade. This makes me wonder how much more powerful the newest MacBook Pros are.? The newer 2015 MacBook Pro is dramatically more powerful.

Here’s how the two computers compare: Score Typeīoth CPU scores are pretty similar but the massive difference is in the OpenCL compute power which includes the CPU, graphical processing, hardware accelerators, etc. As youd expect from the big MacBook Pro, you get a stunning Retina display, which looks fantastic, and a Core i7 processor that delivers excellent performance when stacked up against the Retina. To determine which was more performant I decided to use Geekbench to take benchmarks and compare. From the specs I assumed my personal computer would have the better performance (but that would be odd given it’s age), although my work computer does seem to handle Docker better.

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