On the other hand, if you look at our GAMES page, the GeForce GT 750M was clearly superior to the Iris Pro. And in our earliest article, you saw that the Iris Pro ran LuxMark OpenCL benchmark several times faster than the GeForce. With the exception of the FCPX Export test, it made very little difference versus the GeForce GTX 750M. Notice we used gfxCardStatus to force the Iris Pro integrated GPU to be used in the FCPX, REDcine, Resolve, and Motion tests. Unless you need portability, for only $200 more than the fastest 2013 Retina MacBook Pro you can get the fastest 2013 iMac (both with 16G of RAM and 512G flash storage). Not if you are running serious pro apps like OctaneRender or DaVinci Resolve or After Effects Ray-traced 3D - each of which runs three times faster on the iMac. So one could say that the 2013 is a refined Retina MacBook Pro with pockets of quantum performance leaps. Plus, there are two new technologies we have not benchmarked yet: WiFi 802.11ac and Thunderbolt 2.0. However, the new PCIe flash storage is a big leap forward. When it comes to CPU and GPU intensive apps, in some cases it is a leap forward in performance. IS THE 2013 RETINA MACBOOK PRO THE BEST APPLE LAPTOP YET? And with that, the 2013 rMBP beat the 2012 rMBP in every test. The graphs have been updated to reflect the better scores. This time our ratings for both were significantly higher. (LARGER number means FASTER rate in MEGABYTES per SECOND)ĬORRECTION: When a reader informed us that his Geekbench scores were higher than ours on the 2013 rMBP, we re-ran both Geekbench 3 and Cinebench R15. QuickBench 4.0.4 - Small Random 4K to 1024K Size Writes (LARGER number means FASTER rate in MEGABYTES per SECOND)ĪJA System Test - Simulated Capture of 16GB HD Video Stream. (LARGER number means FASTER Geekbench Rating) Geekbench 3 - 64 bit Multi-Core Floating Point Performance Rating. Geekbench 3 - 64 bit Multi-Core Integer Performance Rating. (SMALLER number means FASTER total SECONDS)Ĭinebench R15 - Render 3D Model using all cores. PhotoZoom 5 - Enlarge 49MB Photo by 400%. (SMALLER number means FASTER total SECONDS) HandBrake 0.9.9 - Transcode WildLife 2min Video to iPad compatible format. (LARGER number means FASTER in FRAMES per SECOND) Motion 5 - Render RAM Preview of Atmospherics Open HD Template (600 frames). (LARGER number means FASTER in FRAMES per SECOND)ĭaVinci Resolve 10 beta 3 - Render 4 nodes of Blur on the Fly during Playback. REDCINE-X RED PLAYER (build 21 beta) - Fast Forward through 228 Frame RED (R3D) video at Normal, Full, Fit Both, Enable OpenCL settings. (SMALLER number means FASTER total SECONDS)įinal Cut Pro X 10.0.9 - Export of BruceX Video to H.264. OctaneRender 1.2.0 - Render the Octane Benchmark Scene. ( * gfxCardStatus was used to disable Dynamic Switching and force either the Intel Iris Pro or the GeForce GT 750M to run in four of the tests below.) All three were running OS X 10.9 Mavericks How fast is the 2013 Retina MacBook Pro compared to the 'best' early 2012 Retina MacBook Pro? And how do both compare to the 'best' 2013 iMac? We have twelve tests that should help answer those questions.Ģ013 iMac = 2013 iMac (27") with 3.5GHz Core-i7, 32GB of 1600MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M GPU (4G), and 512GB PCIe flash storageĢ013 rMBP = 2013 Retina MacBook Pro (15") with 2.6GHz Quad-Core i7, 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M GPU (2G) and/or Iris Pro Integrated GPU (1G)*, and 512GB PCIe flash storage.Ģ012 rMBP = 'early 2012' Retina MacBook Pro (15") with 2.7GHz Quad-Core i7, 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU (1G), and 512GB 6Gbps SATA flash storage Thursday, November 7th, 2013 - added results forcing the Iris Pro to do the graphics work. November 1st evening: reran Cinebench and Geekbench - posted higher ratings Posted Friday, November 1st, 2013 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
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