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I'm pretty sure you won't drain the battery during regular gameplay, only when taxing the entire system via specific benchmarks.
Ok, "Drain" might have been a harsh word, but what I wanted to say was that one could remove the battery and still run the MacBook since Charging and Power worked independent from the battery.
Today the battery is always used and will be charged at the same time when and if it is drained below a certain level.
This is what I meant.
If you heavily use your MB, the battery will sit in-between the charger and the consuming components, taxing it even more than with previous models.
Before the MBP Retina 2012, the whole MBP would run using the charger, not the battery.
 
I know this is a bit crude comparison BUT assuming you use the CPU and GPU 100% they should use around 45Wand 35W. This combined adds up to 80W. Add 10W for the rest of the system and you have 90W total power used. The current Charger is rated at 87W. thunderbolt3 supports up to 100W.

I'm pretty sure you won't drain the battery during regular gameplay, only when taxing the entire system via specific benchmarks. Even the you could get a 100W charger once these are released.

There is a specific thread about the MBP will drain the battery under full load, for the most part they all do it.

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It seems like most of the reviews so far are using machines with the 450 or 455, has anyone seen any good data on the 460?
[doublepost=1482889224][/doublepost]I had Cinebench results from 78.41fps to 86.68fps running 6 tests...
OpenCL on Geekbench is 58097...
 
There is a specific thread about the MBP will drain the battery under full load, for the most part they all do it.

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This was for anything after the 2013 retina redesign? I'm pretty sure my 2014 15" never did, but then again I have the Iris Pro only model so probably the dGPU ones have higher drain.
 
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