MacBook Pro 13" with Touch bar Intel I5 vs I7
Hello everybody,
I'm going to buy a new 2016 MacBook 13 inch. But I'm still not sure if I shall buy the I5(3,1 to 3,5 GHz) or the I7 (3,3 to 3,6 GHz).
I'm going to buy a new 2016 MacBook 13 inch. But I'm still not sure if I shall buy the I5(3,1 to 3,5 GHz) or the I7 (3,3 to 3,6 GHz).
I would like to use my mac for Office work and video editing (with 4K footage).
Because it's a big price difference between the I5 and the I7. I'm not sure if it's with it (I'm sure that I will but 16GB Ram).
Thanks for you help in advanced.
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13" MBP Core i7 vs 13" MBP Core i7
http://barefeats.com/rmbp13v15.html
13" MBP Core i5 benchmarks
http://barefeats.com/lowlap2016.html
Alternative: 2013 15" MBP
http://barefeats.com/rmbp2015.html
Office doesn't matter.
if you are doing FCPX + Resolve get an iMac.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i5-6360U-Notebook-Processor.149856.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-6567U-Notebook-Processor.149848.0.html
If you look at the Cinebench score, that is a test that measures raw CPU performance and the results are 309 vs 364 so just under 18% faster. You'd hardly notice that difference. If you had a 1 hour export on the i5, the i7 would take 51 minutes in the best-case. Not worth the $300 upgrade IMO, you'd be much better off putting that towards more SSD storage as 4K footage uses a lot of space and SSDs slow down if you fill them up. Only 50%+ performance difference would be worth the extra.
You have to factor in the GPU too as the higher up CPUs have the Iris 550 GPU vs 540 but again it's a small difference ~5-15%:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-540.149939.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-550.149937.0.html
The entry touchbar model has the 550 but the entry CPU model of either touchbar or non-touchbar would be fine and just get upgrades to RAM and SSD.
There are a few minor differences like: