Apple Magazine - Issue 396 (2019-05-31)

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when ordering) to compare, and the data
showed Single-core speeds had increasd
almost 10 percent, whilst multi-core scores
were up an impressive 29 percent. If that isn’t
enough of an incentive to upgrade to the latest
iteration, we don’t know what is!


The 13 - inch model with Touch Bar, on the
other hand, doesn’t feature the same high-end
performance as the 15-inch display model, but
still packs its punch with integrated graphics
and 128MB of embedded DRAM, allowing
graphics tasks to perform at break-neck speed.
Still, the new 13-inch model scored a single
thread result of 4993 and a multi-core score of
18283, up from 4520 and 16629 respectively
on last year’s releases. AppleInsider, however,
said that “if you’re looking to game on your Mac
or rely heavily on graphics, we recommend
picking up an external graphics solution such

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