Mixed feeling after comparing my score to the new MBP score
I bought a late 2011 MBP 17 for my mobile thunderbolt workstaion (I use it for live capturing uncompressed video through the thunderbolt to a blackmagic UltraStudio 3D which records to a Pegasus R4 raid 5 @ 500MB/s write and monitoring the feed with scopebox 3.
When I saw the geekbench scores for the new MBP I realized I had never benched this laptop, so I did. My results are much closer to the posted results than I expected. The highest score I have obtained is 12,200, with my avg score around 12,165. In fact, I even have a higher Processor integer performance score at my 10623 vs their 10203.
(sorry for the bad pic. I am writing this on my windows box which is next to my mbp and was just feeling lazy so I grabbed the cell out and snapped a photo of the screen)
So My specs are
CPU: i7 2.5
16GB of DDR3 1600mhz (this helps. I think the ram timing more than the amount)
240GB sata3 OCZ SSD with 300MB/s+ actual read/write speed
Now I am using geekbench in 64bit mode and my 32bit mode score is around 11,380. But some of the scores will most likely increase for me as well as I am still running 10.7.4 and OSX 10.8 has many under the hood changes and hopefully makes better use out of the various i7 chipsets in terms of utilizing their power and will also improve opencl (yeah).
So I am concluding that in Apple's quest to make a smaller, thinner, more portable laptop, they aren't gonna give us any more power than what we already have. So my MBP may be fatter, but it is basically just as fast as the new ones. Happy that I wont be having to evaluate another upgrade, but still kinda bummed out that apple decided to go this route (more consumer friendly with less consideration for the production people) and give us no real upgraded processing power options. But you never know. Things are always subject to change. Maybe this is the mid-range MBP
I bought a late 2011 MBP 17 for my mobile thunderbolt workstaion (I use it for live capturing uncompressed video through the thunderbolt to a blackmagic UltraStudio 3D which records to a Pegasus R4 raid 5 @ 500MB/s write and monitoring the feed with scopebox 3.
When I saw the geekbench scores for the new MBP I realized I had never benched this laptop, so I did. My results are much closer to the posted results than I expected. The highest score I have obtained is 12,200, with my avg score around 12,165. In fact, I even have a higher Processor integer performance score at my 10623 vs their 10203.
(sorry for the bad pic. I am writing this on my windows box which is next to my mbp and was just feeling lazy so I grabbed the cell out and snapped a photo of the screen)
So My specs are
CPU: i7 2.5
16GB of DDR3 1600mhz (this helps. I think the ram timing more than the amount)
240GB sata3 OCZ SSD with 300MB/s+ actual read/write speed
Now I am using geekbench in 64bit mode and my 32bit mode score is around 11,380. But some of the scores will most likely increase for me as well as I am still running 10.7.4 and OSX 10.8 has many under the hood changes and hopefully makes better use out of the various i7 chipsets in terms of utilizing their power and will also improve opencl (yeah).
So I am concluding that in Apple's quest to make a smaller, thinner, more portable laptop, they aren't gonna give us any more power than what we already have. So my MBP may be fatter, but it is basically just as fast as the new ones. Happy that I wont be having to evaluate another upgrade, but still kinda bummed out that apple decided to go this route (more consumer friendly with less consideration for the production people) and give us no real upgraded processing power options. But you never know. Things are always subject to change. Maybe this is the mid-range MBP
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