Apple this week refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup with Intel's seventh -
generation Kaby Lake processors, and early benchmarks for the notebooks suggest the 2017 models are up to 20 percent faster than the equivalent 2016 models equipped with Intel's sixth -
generation Skylake processors.Specifically, the new 15 - inch MacBook Pro configured with a 2.9 GHz Core i7 processor has average single - core and multi-core scores of 4,632 and 15,747 respectively based on nearly a dozen Geekbench 4
results so far.By comparison,
last year's 15 - inch MacBook Pro configured with a sixth -
generation 2.7 GHz Core i7 processor, which was the equivalent high - end stock configuration, has average single - core and multi-core scores of 4,098 and 13,155 respectively based on
over 4,800 Geekbench 4
results.On a