We had a feeling Apple’s Ivy Bridge might move ahead in performance compared Intel’s Ivy Bridge and by how much, we were not completely sure.But, benchmarks from Geekbench site can give some answers to those questions.The site shows a MacBookPro9,1 running Mac OS X 10.8 (Build 12A211) poweered by Intel Core Ivy Bridge Core i7-3820QM running at 2.7GHz (1 processor, 4 cores, 8 threads) and gives a benchmark score of 12252 which is around 17% more performance compared to the equivalent Core i7 15-inch or 17-inch MacBook Pro.So we can say that there has been a 17% increase in performance if you plan to upgrade to Ivy Bridge from your current MacBook Pro’s.
The second benchmark comes from an ‘iMac13,2′ running off Intel’s next-gen Core i7-3770 desktop chip clocked at 3.4GHz, which only merits a score of 12183 because it’s hobbled by 4GB of RAM. If you exclude memory and compare only the CPU integer and floating point scores, then you’re looking at a roughly nine percent gain over a current 27-inch iMac with a 3.4Ghz Core i7-2600 processor.Am not sure how true are these benchmarks but Engadget feels that the motherboard codes does seem valid and are in line with what we have come to expect from Ivy Bridge Processor benchmarks.
Source : GeekBench(1) ,GeekBench(2)
Via Engadget
