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After applying the patch to all MBP 2018 models, how models other than the one with i9 behave?
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I can say this: comparing the Core i9 to my 2.6 i7 15" shows that the performance difference under load is ~3 to 5%. Otherwise, nothing else has changed for me with this update. Battery life is still great, heat is the same, and fan noise (or lack thereof) is the same as well. Although I really wish Apple allowed us to decide wether or not we would like the fans to kick in quicker in order to boost performance. I typically have headphones on while editing an it would not make a difference to me if it kicked in after 15-30 seconds of load instead of 1-1.5 mins.
Maybe I missed it, whats the sustained ghz on load? and battery life please? really appreciated.
For my machine, when running Cinebench, the sustained speed was 3.2GHz for the first two tests and 3GHz for the three I ran after that while I had the fans manually cranked to their highest setting. Battery life is a little hard for me to gauge accurately, but with the normal to heavy browsing I have been doing today in Safari, I have been on the machine for ~5 hours and have 51% battery remaining.
While doing my video editing work, I can typically edit (color correction, retiming, adding effects, etc), render, transcode and export a 10-12 minute video which takes around 3-5 hours for me, and still have 20-30% remaining. Definitely love the battery life this machine has to offer.
If scaling correctly, all models should have performance gain and i7 should STILL performs similarly than the more expensive i9 models.
I am concerned that Apple may intentionally twist the patch so that the i9 models get more performance improvement than other models in order to mislead people into buying the i9 model.
In Apple stores in Canada, the only model that has 1TB is the i9 model. So if somebody wants a 1TB model and doesn't want to wait, that person buys the i9 model.
I am concerned that Apple may intentionally twist the patch so that the i9 models get more performance improvement than other models in order to mislead people into buying the i9 model.
In Apple stores in Canada, the only model that has 1TB is the i9 model. So if somebody wants a 1TB model and doesn't want to wait, that person buys the i9 model.
It effects the i9s more because they exhibit more throttling. More problem, more impact of the fix.
Am I correct that even after the patch the improvement is small that in terms of cost? performance, heat and batter life the base models of 13" and 15" are still better buy?
I had the same concern. Hopefully they won’t artificially slow down the i7’s to create a bigger performance gap with the i9. Luckily we, as an internet geek community would figure it out pretty quickly
