Gaming on OS X is still anemic at best, with even high-end games such as BioShock: Infinite and Metro: Last Light only available for Macs in crippled forms that lack some high-end resolution and detail settings.

When it comes to gaming, it's perhaps less so. The AMD graphics card included in the more expensive MacBook Pro configuration is helpful for high-end photo and video editing. And all of the above are significantly faster than the fifth-generation Core i5 CPU in the 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro. It's also difficult to directly compare the the 20 configurations we tested, as our 2014 15-inch MacBook Pro had only Intel's integrated Iris graphics, while our 2015 configuration has a discrete graphics card from AMD, the Radeon R9 M370X.Ĭompared with premium midsize Windows laptops running Core i7 processors, both the 20 15-inch MacBook Pros were closely matched with the Razer Blade, and a bit faster than a new Dell XPS 15 with Nvidia graphics and a 4K display. That said, this model does not upgrade its CPU from the previous fourth-generation Intel Core i-series to the current fifth-generation chips (as seen in the 13-inch Pro and Air), so the year-over-year gain is minimal. This is a premium laptop, and you can rightly expect premium performance scores from it.

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