In the Mac Pro 2013, there’s a single Xeon E5-2697 processor, with 12 cores, running at 2.7GHz. That might not seem a lot, but the performance improvement becomes more clear when you consider what hardware each system is working with. With a 23,901 score, the new Mac Pro is approximately 2,000 points ahead of the previous flagship Mac Pro. Geekbench is a synthetic test of processor and memory performance, one which many reviewers and system builders use to compare baseline abilities of PCs and Macs. The Pro in question is listed as “AAPLJ90,1”, rather than “MacPro6,1” as might be expected, and scores 23,901 overall in the Geekbench test.
