PC World - USA (2020-06)

10 PCWorld JUNE 2020

NEWS MACBOOK PRO 13 VS. ACER SWIFT 3

Of course, it’s not only the engine you’re

paying for—you’re also paying for the build

quality, the panel quality, the speaker quality,

the keyboard quality—and the logo on the lid.

That’s what we tell ourselves when the Datsun

510 leaves us so far behind at the light, we

check to see if we had our luxury European

performance car in reverse.

This is obviously just one benchmark on

one laptop, so we’ll update the performance

scores of the Swift 3 against more MacBook

Pro 13 scores as they come out. But it’s a bad

start for the MacBook Pro 13, and a great one

for the Acer Swift 3.

i7-1065G7 perform in the 10,000 range

from a Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. The shortfall

from the Core i5-1068NG7 means its

graphics could be clocked lower than the

Core i7-1065G7’s, or perhaps operating

system optimizations make Windows faster

than MacOS.

NEED WE COMPARE

THE COST?

The last chart compares cost, but you don’t

need a picture to tell you that the Acer Swift 3

at $650 is over $1,000 cheaper than the

$1,799 the MacBook Pro 13.

The $650 Swift 3 issues a crushing blow to the

$1,800 MacBook Pro 3 in the OpenCL test.

Despite costing almost three times as much, the

MacBook Pro 13 eats dust and then has seconds

against the $650 Acer Swift 3.

Geekbench 5 gives the MacBook Pro 13 and its

Core i5 the lead over the Ryzen-powered Acer

Swift 3.

The 8 cores of the Acer Swift 3 leave the 4-core

MacBook Pro 13 eating dust in multi-core

performance.

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700U / Radeonift

M13 2020acBook Pro

Core i5-1038NG7 / Iris Plus

Geekbench 5

Multi-core performance

5,

4,

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700U / Radeonift 3

M 2020 acBook Pro 13

Core i5-1038NG7 / Iris Plus

Laptop price

Freedom dollars

$

$1,

LONGER BARS INDICATE HIGHER COST

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700Uift

MPro 13 2020acBook

Core i5-1038NG

Geekbench 5

Single-core performance

1,

1,

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700U / Radeonift 3

M 2020 acBook Pro 13

Core i5-1038NG7 / Iris Plus

Geekbench 5

OpenCL performance

11,

8,

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE