GeekBench Scores Show Early-2016 MacBook is About 15% Faster Than Equivalent 2015 Model

BY Evan Selleck

Published 19 Apr 2016

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The early-2016 MacBook has only just been announced by Apple today, and already early GeekBench scores are trickling in.

As revealed by John Poole (@jfpoole) via Twitter, the early-2016 MacBook does appear to outperform last year’s model by a well enough margin. Specifically, when a model is compared to the 2015 model, the 2016 version outperforms the older portable by upwards of 15%.

Early 2016 MacBook GeekBench

The Single-Core score came back at 2670. Compare that to the 2015 model (MacBook 8,1), and the score is 2303 in the GeekBench 3 scores. The Multi-Core Score in the early-2016 MacBook showed up as 5252, while the Multi-Core Score for the 2015 model is 4621.

The new, early-2016 MacBook does have improvements under the hood, including a new Intel Core M5 Skylake processor, which is still clocked at 1.20GHz, for the base model. The early-2016 MacBook also offers 8GB of RAM in the base model as well.

[via @jfpoole; GeekBench]