New 12-inch Retina MacBook not much more capable than last year’s model

With the 2016 rendition of the 12-inch MacBook having been on the market since last Tuesday, it only makes sense that benchmark results would start showing up online, either supporting or tearing down Apple’s claim of better performance.

As it turns out, the new Skylake-equipped MacBook models are faster than their 2015 counterparts. How much faster depends on your personalized configuration, but the consensus is between 5 and 18 percent.

Geekbench suggests that, with the entry-level Skylake 1.1GHz Intel Core m3 configuration, you’ll experience a CPU performance increase between 5 and 10 percent over the Broadwell MacBooks of yesteryear. That’s translated over from the Geekbench-assigned single-core score of 2,534 and the 

multi-core score of 5,025.