36 TECH ADVISOR • MARCH 2020REVIEW
Geekbench 5’s Compute benchmark on the integrated
Intel GPU: In OpenCL and Metal testing, the 16in
MacBook Pro posted scores of 5,231 and 4,889
respectively,whilethe15inMacBookProhadscores
of5,243 and 4,882.
Theperformancechangebecomesmoreapparent
whentestingthediscreteGPU.IntheGeekbench 5
Computebenchmark,theRadeonPro5500MGPUin
the16inMacBookProgivesthatlaptopabouta 15
percentboostovertheRadeonProVega 20 in the
15inMacBookPro in OpenCL, and about a 5 percent
increase in Metal.
The Cinebench R2 benchmark is a CPU multi-thread
stress test that is more intensive than Geekbench
5’s Multi-Core CPU test. Here, we see that the 16in
MacBook Pro is about 12 percent faster than the 15in
model, even though both laptops have the same
processors. The main difference: Apple redesigned theUnigine Valley