The day has finally come when MacBook Pros beat the top of the line iMac benchmark. GeekBench, the most popular of Mac benchmarking tools, has just been flooded with MacBookPro8,3 systems, all powered by the new Intel Core i7-2720QM 2.2 GHz processor
The numbers speak for themselves. The new MacBook Pros are consistently scoring in the high 9000s with GeekBench 32-bit and the low 10,000s with GeekBench 64-bit. These type of scores are generally only seen on the Mac Pro towers or the high-end iMacs.
To put the new MacBook Pros Geekbench scores into perspective, I’m currently using a built-to-order iMac 27-inch (mid 2010) core i7 870 running at 2.93 GHz with 8 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 memory. Using the latest build of Geekbench 64-bit I score 10,688. An impressive score and up until today only the Mac Pros offered higher scores.
Last year’s MacBook Pros scored in the high 4000s to mid-5000s, representing a 100 percent improvement. The combination of the faster DDR3 memory and the new Sandy Bridge chips with four cores (instead of two) and eight threads is clearly paying off. We can’t wait to get our review units in so that we can put the new MacBook Pro through its paces. It might finally be time to leave the desktop world and return the a laptop. What do you think?
via 9to5Mac
