First Benchmarks for MacBook Pro With New Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Surface

[Peperino]

If you are a long time apple user, you should expect this. Apple II wasn't that upgrade friendly either.

I should not expect this at all. Especially comparing an Apple II to todays computers is kind of obsolete.
Apple use to be the leader and have innovation. Not anymore. The prices all over the entire product line are way overpriced for the quality of product they are offering. A sales person (Tim Cook) is leading Apple.
And sadly that shows all over. Overpriced underspec products (except iWatch) from iPhones to Macboooks. In addition upgrade cycles have become longer and longer.
I wonder why they are not selling as many units as other quarters...

 

[AndiG]

I'm pissed. Apple sold me an 4500€ MBP with a ridiculous 560X gpu and only 3 months later a really important upgrade becomes available. Yes it's my fault, but I was waiting since 4 years for a badly needed upgrade.

Thank you Apple!!

 

[Peperino]

I'm pissed. Apple sold me an 4500€ MBP with a ridiculous 560X gpu and only 3 months later a really important upgrade becomes available. Yes it's my fault, but I was waiting since 4 years for a badly needed upgrade.

Thank you Apple!!

The new MBPs are really bad. They are disposable non-upgradable computers. You cannot upgrade neither the RAM nor the internal SSD. Once you buy your are stuck. This is RIDICULOUS! I also waiting to upgrade, but rather stick with my old Macbook pro for a while longer rather to upgrade to a bad-overpriced and expensive laptop. Vote with your wallet.
Other laptops that are 16gb-512 SSD are way less than the Macbook Pro.

 

[edenorchestra]

That’s just for OpenCL. The Metal bench looks like a 30% increase, if I read that right. There’s only so much power they can cram into a notebook, even if the MBP were thicker. A mobile GeForce would likely be the better option, but Apple sure seems to take issue with Nvidia.

Nvidia takes issue with Apple actually. Nvidia closes up much of their low level access, AMD has a much more open relationship with GPU application development, and this integrates well with the Apples architecture. This is exactly why FinalCut Pro runs so well, one system . .

 

[aforty]

My Hackintosh with a RX 580 gets 142,775.

 

[tomscott1988]

My Hackintosh with a RX 580 gets 142,775.

Same with my 10 year old mac pro.. but the 580 is twice if not three times as thick and about third the width of a 15" macbook pro