The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 12 clicks from bottom or 75. Both the 2013 and the 2014 models use Haswell processors, so all of the performance gains come from the increased clock speeds. Click to Enlarge Apple was the first to usher in Retina-level displays, and the 2014 MacBook Pro delivers more of the same (good) thing with its 13-inch 2560 x 1600-pixel panel. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2016 using preproduction 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with a 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM. Overall performance improvements for the new MacBook Pros are modest and unsurprising. Testing conducted by Apple in April 2015 using preproduction 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with 256GB of flash storage and 16GB of RAM. Geekbench 3 results for most of the new models have already appeared in the Geekbench Browser which lets us see how performance has improved across the lineup.įor the 15-inch MacBook Pro, processor speeds were increased by 200 MHz, leading to a 6% to 9% increase in performance: Processorįor the 13-inch MacBook Pro, processor speeds were also increased by 200 MHz, leading to a 7% to 8% increase in performance (note that we do not yet have results for the new high-end model): MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11. On Tuesday Apple updated its MacBook Pro lineup.