Maxon’s Cinebench R15 also shows the quad-core crushing the dual-core.įinding cross-platform OSX and Windows tests can be difficult, but a handy one is the open-source Blender test. No surprise: Like Geekbench, the scaling favors the quad-core in the XPS 15 over the dual-core in the MacBook Pro 13. Throw more at it, and you get a higher score. The free CPU benchmark tests a PC’s performance at rendering a single scene, and it loves CPU cores. It’s a “real-world” test in that the same engine is used on Maxon’s Cinema 4D product. Geekbench Pro 3 shows that having more cores is better.Ĭinebench R15 is a popular rendering benchmark that got its start on the Amiga. It’s OK, but clearly the MacBook Pro 13’s screen has more pizzazz with its higher pixel density and glossy finish. The screen on this particular unit is a 1920×1080 IPS with an anti-glare finish. It doesn’t feel quite as solid as the MacBook Pro does, but it has decent build quality with a decent trackpad. It has a quad-core Core i7-67700HQ, 8GB of DDR4/2133 RAM, GeForce GTX 960m, and a 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD. The XPS 15 packs a quad-core Skylake chip with a GeForce GTX 960m inside.ĭell’s latest-generation XPS 15 gets the “infinity bezel” treatment on its screen. All told, this laptop sells for $1,500 as of this writing. There’s no discrete graphics inside the MacBook Pro 13, but it does pack Intel’s Iris Pro 6100. It’s pretty much what you expect of a premium product at a premium price. That aside, the MacBook Pro 13’s design boasts a beautiful screen, a very good keyboard and “force” trackpad. The simple fact is Apple only just put out its first laptop with Intel’s current Skylake CPU, and that 12-inch MacBook has no business in this fight. Even though it rolls Intel’s 5th-gen (Broadwell) CPU, I didn’t pick this architecture to put the Mac at a disadvantage. The MacBook Pro 13 used for this showdown is the current 2015 model with a dual-core Core i5-5257U, 8GB of LPDDR3/1866 and 256GB PCIe drive. The 2015 MacBook Pro 13 packs Intel’s last gen Broadwell CPU with Iris Pro graphics. Read on to see just what you get for the money.
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