2016 MacBook gains on MacBook Air benchmarks


I'm not really in the market for a new laptop, but eventually I'll be looking to replace my MacBook Air. When the MacBook was refreshed last week I was curious how the latest Skylake Core M5/M7 processors would compare to the Core i5/i7 found elsewhere in Macs.

Joe Rossignol for Mac Rumors:

Meanwhile, the top-end Skylake-based 1.3GHz Intel Core m7 built-to-order configuration earned average 64-bit single-core and multi-core scores of 3,023 and 6,430 respectively, which is between 9% and 17% faster than the equivalent Broadwell-based 1.3GHz model released in 2015.

That's just shy of the top end 2015 MacBook Air. Likely when the MacBook Air gets refreshed the gap will be larger, but point being at least now the new MacBook is in the ballpark of a current Mac.