Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt, ATI/AMD Graphics?
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
They haven't.
so this has nothing to do with the whole intel stuff apple has going on?
Where have you read the specs for the 15 inch? I've only found the 13 inch specs...
They are just using AMD (ATI) graphics in the 15" & 17" MBP.
They are still using Intel CPUs and Thunderbolt (light peak) has been developed by Intel.
256mb wont hold the texture cache for WoW (or almost any modern games), so these new macbooks will struggle to run WoW on even medium settings, however my early 08 macbook pro, with the 8600m GT 512mb runs with all settings (bar water that i turn down one notch) on highest runs fine.
And Starcraft 2 will probably need lowest texture settings.
love the apple logic on this one, lets save a few pennies and raise our profits by cutting corners, people will still buy it because its pretty,are becoming more abut brand than quality/performance than ever before, im not a happy mac owner at the moment.
Uh...what are you talking about? The GT 330M at 256 MB of VRAM will perform things like WoW and SC2 just as well as it would with 512 MB of VRAM UNTIL you plug in a 30" Apple Cinema Display, then the VRAM difference will be shown in droves. I also severely doubt your 8600M GT's performance especially since even Blizzard recommends you use that card on lowest settings, if at all.
Where have you read the specs for the 15 inch? I've only found the 13 inch specs...
There's a thread in the MacBook Pro section dedicated to the specs of the 15" and 17": https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1101665/
given the recent non-compliance between NVIDIA and Intel this was never on the tables.
WHAT THE *******. Those specs are ridicules! Seriously - the only major upgrade here is the i7 CPU. So this is what I've been waiting 1 year for!?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
Online store is down!
Online store is down!
I wasnt disappointed with the refresh until now. The new GPU in the 15" is slower than the current 330M, its basically on par with a 320M. So you now have Graphics perfomance which is on the same level with the 13" MBA. Ridiculous!
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6490M.43843.0.html
There they say the performance is slighty better than the HD6370M which is below the 320M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6370M.40970.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6490M.43843.0.html
There they say the performance is slighty better than the HD6370M which is below the 320M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6370M.40970.0.html
I know! This is the stupidest MBP update ever, and its been the longest coming too!
maybe apple brought back the $1599 15inch mbp and decided to add a dedicated, but weak card? Maybe the 1799 model will feature the 6750?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
UK online store is down too. As the Chemical Brothers said, Here We Go.
UK online store is down too. As the Chemical Brothers said, Here We Go.
Yep. The ATI name is dust.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/produc...spx?lid=Gaming_Graphics&lpos=HP_bottom_bucket
It doesnt make any sense at all, given the 6490M is actually slower than the Intel HD 3000 which is integrated into the CPU. This doesnt add up! Why add a dedicated GPU if its performs worse than the integrated one ?
Also the 13" MBP will now have the exact same performance in games and GPU intensive applications.
Also the 13" MBP will now have the exact same performance in games and GPU intensive applications.