CINEBENCH! AMD Radeon R9 M370X

[cookies!]

Really liking it. I am coming from a 1.3 ghz MBA with 4 GB of ram. running Lightroom on it is an entirely different experience. Not much of a gamer so I can't comment on that but the machine is quiet, runs cool, the screen is phenomenal, and the new SSD makes everything feel significantly more responsive.

I haven't edited video on it yet but I am looking forward to that as well.

Having more than 4GB on Lightroom is probably the best choice you could've made

 

[jerwin]

Super confused.

I just got my 2.5 GHz/m370x rMBP and ran compubench to compare the upgrade against the Air i have been using for 2+ years.

The results I got in compubench are for some reason nowhere near the results in the compubench database (this compares the new card to the 750m https://compubench.com/compare.jsp?...9+M370X&D2=NVIDIA+GeForce+GT+750M+Mac+Edition)

I am plugged in, automatic graphics switching was turned off, and nothing else was running.

Here are my results (in parenthesis are the ones in the compubench database for this GPU):

Face Detection: 5 Mpixels/s (24.4 Mpixels/s)
Optical Flow: 1.8 Mpixels/s (5.7 Mpixels/s)
Ocean: 85.2 frames/sec (510 frames/sec)
Particle: 41.3 Minteractions/sec (218 Minteractions/sec)
Video Composition: 2.2 frames/sec (36.7 frames/sec)
Bitcoin: 5.1 MHash/sec (126.4 MHash/sec)


Does anyone know why I'm getting such drastically different results?

Probably shouldn't be in this thread, since I use an iMac, but what the hell.

Here are my results when I press the Start All Button.

Face Detection: 3.8513 Mpixels/s
Optical Flow: 1.2623 Mpixels/sec
Ocean: 77.77 Frames/sec
Particle: 34.522 Minteractions/sec
T-rex: 0.43988 Frames/s
Video Composition: 2.1451 frames/sec
Bitcoin: 6.0976 MHash/sec

Horrible, no?

And when I press the Test Select Button, and check the m290x compute engine, I get this.

Face Detection: 53.595 Mpixels/s
Optical Flow: 13.133 Mpixels/sec
Ocean: 1001.8 Frames/sec
Particle: 315.33 Minteractions/sec
T-rex: FAILED
Video Composition: 76.565 frames/sec
Bitcoin: 310.14 MHash/sec

While it might have been nice to see the T-Rex sequence at a decent framerate, the real lesson of this is--

Check to see that Compubench isn't running strictly on the CPU. Your CPU is stronger than mine at some things, weaker at a few. I'll chalk it up to Hyperthreading.

 

[simonmet]

has anyone on this thread every gamed or done intensive tasks day in and day out on any MacBook Pro? I just want to make sure that this computer can handle this type of use case.

Yes it can. I worry more about the heat in the power supply than the Mac. That brick gets too hot to touch sometimes.

 

[ha1o2surfer]

I'm sure this has been stated.. but Cinebench's OpenGL benchmark is useless... The M370x isn't really all that great and I guess in the macbook, it's even worse. hmm good to know. The M370X should be at least getting better than what I posted below. easily


To compare to a pretty powerful card, here is my 760M:

Face Detection: 24.502 Mpixels/s
Optical Flow: 8.7053 Mpixels/sec
Ocean: 765.04 Frames/sec
Particle: 226.73 Minteractions/sec
T-rex: 2.2838Frames/s
Video Composition: 47.643 frames/sec
Bitcoin: 56.021 MHash/sec