3rd gen AMD APU on MacBook Pro?

[high heaven]

It is well known that AMD APU and Navi 21 had found in macOS Catalina a few months ago. 3rd gen Renoir and unknown code name Van Gogh. Van Gogh might be the 4th gen AMD APU I think as AMD uses artist names for AMD APU.

3rd gen AMD APU has more cores and better than Intel's 10th gen Ice lake and Comet lake. 5ghz of boost speed is a joke for a laptop anyway.

I'm still waiting for benchmarks and tests for 3rd gen AMD APU and I have a high expectation for 3rd gen cause it supports LPDDR4X while Intel Comet lake does not. The RAM's power consumption affects the battery power and yet Intel still not able to support LPDDR4 until Ice lake release.

I think it's inevitable to ditch Intel CPU for better performance.

 

[ruslan120]

It might’ve been a test that made it past QA. Intel is deeply optimized for in macOS and it would take a lot of re-engineering and parallel development efforts.

Although, given Apple’s size and resources, it’s possible.

Edit: isn’t the verdict not yet out regarding Intel vs AMD? In general performance AMD might be better, but under macOS the results will be different

 

[high heaven]

It might’ve been a test that made it past QA. Intel is deeply optimized for in macOS and it would take a lot of re-engineering and parallel development efforts.

Although, given Apple’s size and resources, it’s possible.

Edit: isn’t the verdict not yet out regarding Intel vs AMD? In general performance AMD might be better, but under macOS the results will be different

I'm very aware of that issue. This is why Ryzen is not recommended for Hackintosh since macOS does not support AMD CPU. If Apple starts optimizing AMD CPU, it won't take too much time. Maybe they already working on AMD CPU way before 2019.

 

[BootLoxes]

I'm very aware of that issue. This is why Ryzen is not recommended for Hackintosh since macOS does not support AMD CPU. If Apple starts optimizing AMD CPU, it won't take too much time. Maybe they already working on AMD CPU way before 2019.

From what I have been reading, ryzentosh computers are easier to setup than a traditional hackintosh. No idea how accurate it is though

 

[high heaven]

From what I have been reading, ryzentosh computers are easier to setup than a traditional hackintosh. No idea how accurate it is though

Mostly not true. macOS apps are optimized only for Intel CPU. If you gonna use professional software like Adobe CC, then it won't gonna work or crash continuously. You can google it. Ryzentosh is far more unstable than Intel Hackintosh for sure. It is a same thing that you try to add unsupported Nvidia in macOS.

 

[BootLoxes]

Mostly not true. macOS apps are optimized only for Intel CPU. If you gonna use professional software like Adobe CC, then it won't gonna work or crash continuously. You can google it. Ryzentosh is far more unstable than Intel Hackintosh for sure. It is a same thing that you try to add unsupported Nvidia in macOS.

Like I was saying, I was just saying what I read and saw on youtube. No idea if its accurate. I use intel for my hackintosh

 

[maflynn]

What little I know is that AMD is superior to Intel in the number of cores/threads, but for mobile chips, Intel is still king with power efficiency and single core processing. Also would apple take a chance on a relatively small producer like they did (and got burned) back in the PPC days?

With Intel they get what they need in a timely manner and if they switched what would be better? What would they lose?

 

[foliage]

Benchmarks from LTT on AMD's new 7nm 35W chips are out, on par / beating 14nm 45W Intel i9.

Isn't this just hugely promising for the potential new MacBook pro, especially with AMD references in the Catalina 10.15.4 beta?

Any ideas if, given power constraints, the Van Gogh APU with Navi RDNA2 would have graphics performance rivalling the current 16" MBP 5500M 8GB (Navi RDNA1)?