retina macbook air is faster than older airs and macbooks, but slower than the new ipad pro – bgr

Retina MacBook Air is faster and slower than iPad Pro BGR...   Retina MacBook Air is faster and slower than iPad Pro...   The first benchmark for Retina MacBook Air that Apple unveiled few days ago is out, showing the expected gains performance over MacBook Air generation.   The results posted over on Geekbench ( via MacRumors, show single-core and multi-core scores of 4248 and 7828, respectively, for device rocking 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-8210Y and 16GB of RAM..   Air's processor is part of Intel's unveiled Amber Lake series of chips, CPU that no other laptop has, for the time being..   MacBook Air, featuring 1.8GHz Intel Broadwell processor, scored 3335 and 6119 in the same tests.   The performance bump should be noticeable to Air users and can be likened on paper with the performance from iPhone to iPhone X..   The single-core score of Retina MacBook Air surpasses all 12-inch MacBooks  and is within reach of base 2017 and 2018 MacBook Pro models.   What's more interesting is that iPad Pro that Apple unveiled at the earlier this week outscores all these MacBooks in the same tests, including Retina MacBook Air and its predecessors, MacBooks, and MacBook Pro models.   book, Core i5 Amber Lake chip in the benchmark above..   Read more