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2016 15" MBP UI Lag

psik said:
This person/poster/video maker is a troll guarnatete u guys this is fake, i mean video is real but something is done to get that effect its not real - I don't know what you are up to users who posted this or video maker, but you are making this crap up. This almost seems like to be paid bad advertising made to look real by having a grassroots sort of guy filming. but i don't know who paid you man, or what kind of a troll you are. but whatever you did, you are making up the results by doing something in the background. shame. i mean i criticize apple but i dont stage stuff like you do.
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Good to know. Wonder if he has a history of faking stuff like that. Lame of him to think no one will find out. So no one has any UI lags then?
 
xraydoc said:
This is true, though the 540 in the 2.0GHz part is running at a much lower clock speed than the 530 in the 15" model. I'm thinking it should even them out, though I haven't seen specific benchmark to support my supposition.
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Iris 540 and HD 530 have basically identical clocks and Iris 540 has double the processor cores as well as the L4 cache. The only thing that HD 530 has going for it is the higher thermal ceiling. But there has to be some really heavy throttling going on for the 530 to be faster or even on par with the 540.
 
arbitrage said:
I can't replicate anything like in that video. I have the gfxCardStatus program and switched between the two cards (530 and 460 in my case) and both seemed about the same.
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Ataricade said:
no issue here on mine
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Can you guys make a short video of scrolling in the applications folder and in heavy websites, and upload to Streamable or YouTube? Just to put an end to the question, because the only one we've seen so far shows severe stuttering.
 
edgeQV said:
Can you guys make a short video of scrolling in the applications folder and in heavy websites, and upload to Streamable or YouTube? Just to put an end to the question, because the only one we've seen so far shows severe stuttering.
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just go to an apple store and look for yourself
 
edgeQV said:
No tbMBPs in my country yet, unfortunately.
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Are you checking from the online website? It was the same for me too, they said no stores would have them until Dec 30th. I ended up going yesterday and they did have them, kinda pissed me off lol
 
deadworlds said:
Sorry, I decided to record another making sure to point out that the intel 530 GPU was being used.
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Nice, thanks for the video. Could you just show a bit of scrolling within safari on pages like The Verge or just any other pages? And one quick one of mission control animation too. Really appreciate it, and it'll put this topic to rest!
 
monkeydax said:
Nice, thanks for the video. Could you just show a bit of scrolling within safari on pages like The Verge or just any other pages? And one quick one of mission control animation too. Really appreciate it, and it'll put this topic to rest!
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Okay here is the video as requested. I feel the UI animations performed as expected. I Would like to note one thing with mission control, in the video it doesn't stutter but there is a noticeable "slowness", this did not occur before nor after recording the video. Thus, I have concluded that this "slowness" must be due to me recording at full resolution (3840 × 2400) and writing to disk. As another user noted earlier on this thread, the majority of slowness or stutter associated with mission control is because the CPU has to wake up and refresh all the apps, and windows, and then perform the graphic scaling.

I guess I could record this at a lower resolution, but eh, lazy.


EDIT: I made another recording using my iPhone to properly show how mission control actually looks.
Will update with link soon.



iPhone recording showing mission control
Please excuse my loud aquarium

 
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Wow okay thanks for that. I just tried it out myself, i'm on a late 2013 rMBP. The lag actually becomes noticeable only when you're using Quicktime screen recording. I decided to try because your scrolling on the verge looked noticeably laggier than what I'm experiencing.
 
monkeydax said:
Wow okay thanks for that. I just tried it out myself, i'm on a late 2013 rMBP. The lag actually becomes noticeable only when you're using Quicktime screen recording. I decided to try because your scrolling on the verge looked noticeably laggier than what I'm experiencing.
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My mid 2010 mbp is so **** i cant even watch youtube videos at that high quality. So does it look smooth or no?
 
And I'm assuming on TheVerge site, you're getting a much smoother experience also without Screen Recording running in the background?
 
dk808 said:
Oh wow i didnt see that. When i first watched the lowest option was 1440p but i guess it needed more time to fully export
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My MBP 17" from 2009 has no problems with Youtube - but I have only used the html5-version since forever...
 
It's so obvious its a fake too - he doesn't even consider that this is even for example could be a defect. He automatically assumes that this is the way 2016 15" macbook pro is, without even saying he contacted apple support or took it back. He also makes a bunch of baseless statements about how it "2 times" slower because of the number model of the GPU, as if everything is so linear...

But my main concern is, this must be funded by competitors , who knows which company ... its crazy what length they go to do this...
 
psik said:
It's so obvious its a fake too - he doesn't even consider that this is even for example could be a defect. He automatically assumes that this is the way 2016 15" macbook pro is, without even saying he contacted apple support or took it back. He also makes a bunch of baseless statements about how it "2 times" slower because of the number model of the GPU, as if everything is so linear...

But my main concern is, this must be funded by competitors , who knows which company ... its crazy what length they go to do this...
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God I hope you're joking.
 
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Have you tried plugged vs unplugged? There was a notorious bug that cuts to the lowest CPU speed possible when on battery if any of the internal heat sensors are broken on previous models.
 
psik said:
It's so obvious its a fake too - he doesn't even consider that this is even for example could be a defect. He automatically assumes that this is the way 2016 15" macbook pro is, without even saying he contacted apple support or took it back. He also makes a bunch of baseless statements about how it "2 times" slower because of the number model of the GPU, as if everything is so linear...

But my main concern is, this must be funded by competitors , who knows which company ... its crazy what length they go to do this...
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This made me laugh.
 
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