2.8GHz Retina MacBook Pro Geekbench!

Did you get in an Apple store? Are they available already?
What screen does it have? thanks!

My 2.6Ghz got 12978. Not sure if that extra 5% boost is worth the extra $250, unless you get paid for the work you do on your computer.

13319 on my old 2.7GHz first edition model.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/937247

when did a 2.8 model become available? I thought I topped mine out at 2.7

snowboarder said:

Did you get in an Apple store? Are they available already?
What screen does it have? thanks!

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yes the new macbooks are available in apple stores, I got the new 2.6 13" yesterday.

13464 Geekbench on the old MBPr 2.7ghz with 8MB L3 Cache.

Noted that the now offered 2.7Ghz processor only has 6MB L3 Cache.

Any numbers from the new 13" CPUs yet?

dekka007 said:

Noted that the now offered 2.7Ghz processor only has 6MB L3 Cache.

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That's because it's an update for the old 2.6GHz processor, whereas the new 2.8GHz processor is the upgrade for the old 2.7GHz (with 8MB L3 cache) processor.

iPhonesandMacs said:

yes the new macbooks are available in apple stores, I got the new 2.6 13" yesterday.

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I was specifically asking about the 2.8GHz model

snowboarder said:

I was specifically asking about the 2.8GHz model

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Yes it is available. What I was saying is that the new 13" was there so why wouldnt the 15" be. You can check the stores stock online

vatter69 said:

Any numbers from the new 13" CPUs yet?

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I want to know to, i just ordered a 3.0ghz 13 rMBP

These are 32bit scores for the 15" rMBP:

12000 - 2 week old "mid 2012" 2.6ghz
12400 - new "early 2013" 2.7ghz

My new 13 3.0 rMBP got 8000.(32 bit)

TSX said:

My new 13 3.0 rMBP got 8000.(32 bit)

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Thanks. Disappointing but not unexpected. 2.9 scored roughly 7800.

vatter69 said:

Thanks. Disappointing but not unexpected. 2.9 scored roughly 7800.

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The number keeps going up little by little every time I run it

vatter69 said:

Thanks. Disappointing but not unexpected. 2.9 scored roughly 7800.

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lol my 2.6 i5 256GB 13 scored 7710

My non retina Macbook Pro 2012 i5 2.5 got a 6300. Haaaaaaa

Hehe, i don't feel ancient with my score. Early 11 MBP gets a score of 11152 (64bit)

The devil is in the detail

I own a late-2011 MBP 15" 2.2 Quad, and am considering moving to a 13" Retina 3.0 Dual.

The overall Geekbench results are ~10,000 for the 15, and ~8000 for the 13, but that's probably because the 15 has twice as many lower clocked cores.

Most of my work is code compilation, and I believe this is a single-threaded integer workload.

Under these workloads, the 13 scores much higher, e.g.

Blowfish single-core scalar
13: 2685, 15:1932. 39% higher on 13.

Text Compress single-core scalar
13: 3102, 15: 2580. 20% higher on 13.

Image Compress single-core scalar
13: 2677 ,15: 2261. 18% higher on 13.

Average: 26% higher on 13.

These data were from a 2.9 13, where the clock speed is 32% higher than the 2.2 15, so it's hardly surprising that the 13 does better.

Even 15" MBPs posting overall Geekbench scores in the mid-12000s are only managing ~2750 in the Blowfish single-core scalar, which is within 3% of the latest high spec 13".

So basically, YMMV.

you guys talk about this 'geek bench' all the time so I went ahead, downloaded, installed... and it says it is a 'trial' and only would do '32-bit'... uninstalled without even running.

want my 5 minutes back. meh

THETIMES said:

Mine has a Samsung screen. The screen is pretty much perfect, and I've seen a lot of Samsung and LG screens. I've seen many Samsung's with a bit a yellow in one corner and I've seen LG's which lean slightly towards being too red or too blue.

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can you upload some photos your screen?

HundredthIdiot said:

These data were from a 2.9 13, where the clock speed is 32% higher than the 2.2 15, so it's hardly surprising that the 13 does better.

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Don't compare the base clock speeds; you need to compare the single-core TurboBoost speeds. Your old 2.2 will run at 3.1GHz when only one core is under load, while the 2.9GHz 13" will actually run at 3.7GHz on a single core.

However, the new 2.7GHz quad-core will also run at 3.7GHz for a single core.

For single-threaded workloads, the 13" gets you more bang for the buck, but if you are going for maximum speed, the high-spec quad-core notebooks will still be faster in single-core workloads even though the base clock is slower.