Which store did you buy it from? The only one that is showing stock in any zip code i enter is the entry level one. Did stores get stock and the website just isn't reflecting that?
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CINEBENCH! AMD Radeon R9 M370X
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Which store did you buy it from? The only one that is showing stock in any zip code i enter is the entry level one. Did stores get stock and the website just isn't reflecting that?
I was wondering this too. I have like 20 Apple Stores between Los Gatos, Sac and San Francisco, and the site shows Ship To Store on all of them. I called the Apple Store line and they confirmed none of them had one on Wed and Thurs. I wonder if I should just drop in today and see.
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My local store shows the same thing still, ship to store only. My wife just happened to go in and ask them. She said they had no problem selling it to her so I would suggest calling your local store.
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CUDA = nvidia yes?
Score is impressive. The 860m scored 22fps, this scored 24.5. There are some desktop cards like the GeForce 650ti Boost that score the same. This might even be faster then the 950m.
When i first ordered i was very skeptical and was expecting to be returning the laptop due to this GPU.
Now I must admit over the last 24 hours I have grown in confidence and am rather excited.
This card is starting to look like a little 'beast'.
Now I must admit over the last 24 hours I have grown in confidence and am rather excited.
This card is starting to look like a little 'beast'.
The forum's switch up after benchmarks start coming out is priceless. A day or two ago I thought the entire forum was going to pass out over not having the holy 900M series GPU.
I just tested on my 2014 (which has the 2.8 ghz 4980HQ) and in Compubench running the Face Recognition test I pull 11.12 fps. So the m370x running the same test on a slightly slower CPU was about 2.2x faster at 24.5.
Zoinks.
Zoinks.
it doesn't matter, it will still show the specs of your GPU no matter who manufactured it.
Priceless indeed ^^
Its all good, now we can re-focus our skepticism on the expected lack of driver support : )
That is a compute test a subject in which Kepler was notoriously bad, hence the difference.
But if you'd check on the 960M which notebooks like the UX501 from Asus has. That is at 49.7 quite a bit better in compute than Kepler and twice as fast as the M370X. This test does is not great proof to exonerate Apple's decision to go for this chip.
Compute benches have been all over the place with different architectures. They are more architecture dependent than anything else and not good indicators of general performance. All this Test shows is that AMD is decent at compute as GCN has always been but there is still an efficiency gab to Maxwell.
Yeah, I would really like ot see a 3dmark11 result as its easy for me the relate that to all the other GPUs I have laying around.
I'm going to sell a 2009 Mac Pro, 13" rMBP and Lenovo Y50 to fund the new 15" if the r9 m370x is similar of better than the 860m.
One laptop to rule them all.
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You have to test r9 m370x in windows to know for sure. My HD 7950 in my MP is radically different in multi platform benchmarks between OSX and Windows.
I'm going to sell a 2009 Mac Pro, 13" rMBP and Lenovo Y50 to fund the new 15" if the r9 m370x is similar of better than the 860m.
One laptop to rule them all.----------
You have to test r9 m370x in windows to know for sure. My HD 7950 in my MP is radically different in multi platform benchmarks between OSX and Windows.
That 860M would be the Keppler version
The Maxwell 860M scores 43 mpixel/sec. Which is two times more then the OS X m370x score.
What might be case is that the AMD gpu might be better for computational tasks while the Nvidia would be better for games (not sure how much this remark has changed over the year but considering the forum alignments, doesn't seem to have). Granted the AMD should be far better than the 750m for playing games considering Apple's statement and the benchmarks being shown here.
Will be very interesting to see. When I done the test on my iMacs 750m, I got a score of 60 - 61 fps. This was after updating to Yosemite that I done the test.
Nope, current Nvidia's architecture (Maxwell) is very good at compute tasks. As I have written before, the Nvidia 860M seems to perform bad because there are actually two 860M on the market. One is based on the old Keppler chip and the other one on the new Maxwell. Their gaming performance is similar, but the Maxwell part is much more energy efficient and also much faster in compute tasks.
AMD is good at both gaming and compute. Their main problem is energy efficiency. This is why I am so curious to know more about the m370x, because that could be a new chip that is much more power efficient. However, the compute benchmarks are not a very good sign so far. Based just on that, I would conclude that the m370x can barely reach 70% of 850M's performance. Its still much better than the 750M of course, but underwhelming when you look at the Nvidia options. However, we will have to wait for some proper benchmarks here
Back home, installed the latest OS X update on it. Installing Windows on Bootcamp now and then we will hit it 3DMark Firestrike and various other requests. While I'm getting Windows setup, patched and the drivers sorted, feel free to post requests and Ill do my best to facilitate. I have quite a few titles in my Steam library on Windows and Mac, so let me know. I will probably test Diablo 3 and WOW under OS X as well. I have the folders on my current machine.
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GOGOGO lol. Very much interested in a GPU-Z screenshot along with the usual gaming benchmarks. What I'm also interested in would be a head to head showing between the 650M/750M vs the M370x in rendering speed on FCPX. It's what's killing my 2012 rMBP right now and I'll be willing to upgrade if this new chip is really 70% faster in real world apps, not theoretical OpenCL compute specs...