Thread: Apple MacBook Professional 15

That aboriginal Sandy Bridge-equipped archetypal had a best of two processors, the top-spec off-the-shelf archetypal accepting a quad-core Intel Core i7-2620QM processor, clocked at 2.2GHz (and active up to 3.3GHz in Turbo Mode). Now, the Apple MacBook Pro 15in (Late 2011) takes an Intel Core i7-2760QM, nominally clocked at 2.4GHz, but with a Turbo acceleration up to 3.5GHz We’ve looked appropriate about the latest model, and couldn’t acquisition any added aberration amid this afterlight and the archetypal we gave a Gold accolade to aftermost spring.


Except the graphics. The AMD detached cartoon agenda on the top archetypal is now an AMD Radeon HD 6770M, replacing the AMD Radeon HD 6750M adapted earlier.


The 6770M is of the aforementioned bearing as the 6750M, but is active hardly faster: up to 750MHz for the amount acceleration of its 480 beck processors, adjoin the 600MHz of the 6750M. Apple has taken the acknowledgment option, though, and called this AMD dent at 675MHz. In our accepted WorldBench 6 real-world acceleration test, the Late-2011 archetypal denticulate 133 points.




That is a admirable result, and as we commented before, one that was until afresh alone the bottle of performance-tuned desktop PCs. But in the ambience of its predecessor, it’s alone one point higher. So aboriginal after-effects advance that the CPU/GPU abuse has alone wrought a attenuate change in all-embracing arrangement performance.


Larger assets were recorded in authentic gaming though. The new AMD cartoon architectonics has already pulled far abroad from the antecedent nVidia solutions that Apple was using; and we saw some assessable assets afresh here. Playing FEAR at Maximum detail, this archetypal averaged 98 frames per second, adjoin the 92fps of before.


STALKER: Call of Pripyat is a DirectX 11-based bold that showed a agnate basin here, from 53 to 58fps, back set to our low-spec analysis of 1280 x 720-pixel resolution and Medium detail. At built-in resolution and Ultra detail (plus tesselation and acquaintance hardening caliginosity on), this confused from 35 to 39fps. Our low-spec Crysis analysis (1024 x 768, High, DX9) played through at 44fps.


Battery activity – as abstinent in Windows 7 Home Premium with MobileMark 2007 Productivity – was about the same, this time 5 hrs 11 mins (311 mins) adjoin the antecedent model’s 318 mins. Back to the Mac operating system, we approved Geekbench to get an abstraction of processor, accumulation and anamnesis performance. We don’t accept antecedent abstracts to analyze to, but the Late 2011 MacBook Pro 15in averaged 11443 credibility here.