Performance test results show that the MacBook 2016 is 15% faster than the MacBook 2015

Yesterday, Apple announced the MacBook 2016 early, and today the first Geekbench benchmark scores appeared.

As reported by John Poole

(@jfpoole) via Twitter, MacBook 2016 earlyreally beats last year's model by quite a few performance points. In particular, the 2016 model is 15% faster than its predecessor.

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GeekBench test MacBook 2016 early

The single core test scored 2670 points. The 2015 model scored 2,303 points in GeekBench 3.

The 2016 early MacBook's multi-core test scored 5,252 points, while the 2015 model's multi-core test scored 4,621 points.

MacBook (Early 2016) Geekbench 3 result: https://t.co/YtwOd3vVRx

~ 15% faster than the equivalent 2015 model: https://t.co/VLAvwiHNvm

— John Poole (@jfpoole) April 19, 2016

The new MacBook 2016 early has severaltechnical improvements, including a new Intel Core M5 Skylake processor, which until now was clocked at 1.20 GHz, for the base model. The new 2016 MacBook also has 8GB of RAM in the base build.

See also:

• Comparing a MacBook 2016 with a MacBook 2015