2020 i7 MBPro 1068NG7 benchmarks

[ctjack]

The 10th-gen i7 is now the second fastest mac according to GB Single core scores:
Mac Benchmarks - Geekbench Browser A good 100 points (10%) faster than both the 10th-gen i5 and the 8-core i9 16 inch machine (despite its 5 Ghz turbo capability!).

I am still rather sceptical of these averages though, given all the variation observed above.

MBP 13 10th gen has higher single-core score just because of the high Crypto score, especially if we look at AES-XTS, which had 3x times more points. So that is very inflated numbers.
So if someone is doing encryption of secret data all day long, then they will benefit from i7 MBP 13. Otherwise this scores mean almost nothing, except the Cinebench R20.

 

[matram]

Check what other process may be running in the background consuming CPU.

 

[Spectrum]

Well (very) late to the party, but finally decided to go for the final (?) Intel 13 inch MBPro to see me through the Intel-to-Apple transition (which is actually looking much better than anticipated!). Especially since at times I still need to be able to virtualise macOS 10.6.8.

This is certainly a very nice machine and feels much snappier than my outgoing 13 inch 2014 model in day-to-day use.
Touch Bar is a pain...but learning to live with it...

Geekbench results very strong as expected (albeit inflated by the AES score as mentioned above), but certainly comparable to my 2018 i7 Mac mini. 1328 single and 4535 for multi. I guess I'll be in for an Apple silicon Mac sometime in 2022-23, and will get to experience a second handy speed boost when I do!

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2020) - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2020) with an Intel Core i7-1068NG7 processor.

browser.geekbench.com

 

[BigMcGuire]

They always have. There's a "secret menu" of high end configs Apple stores carry. For example, the 2019 15 inch had a 2.4/32/560x/1tb or 2.4/32/v20/1tb and the 16 inch has 2.4/32/5500 8gb/2TB and now it seems they have a 13 2.3/32/2TB.

Edit: If you want to see for yourself, price out a Mac on Apple.com and put in a store location that has reopened, for example, Florida. Change the options until you see available today for pickup.

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Yep, that's how I got my i7-1068NG7 - 32GB, 2TB One day I was bored and looking at the Apple website and it showed pickup today. Grabbed that sucker before I could blink. lol.


I'm loving this laptop and the speed of this laptop. While I got it a month before the M1 came out - I need Windows for now so ... M1 someday.

The speed of this computer fits my needs for now. I too look forward to the M2, M3 in a few years?

 

[pshufd]

The speed of this computer fits my needs for now. I too look forward to the M2, M3 in a few years?

Just knowing that they are coming is reassuring. I've thought about an iMac as a stopgap until the M1X stuff arrives. I'm quite sure that the M1X will be enough for my next upgrades. The M1 CPU is enough - except for RAM, Ports, Displays. They only need to fix those for me. 2x, 3x, 4x CPU performance would just be a bonus. A rather insane bonus too.