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Geekbench Shows 2018 MacBook Pro Has Biggest Yearly Performance Gain Since 2011
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A battery-powered sarcasm detector would suffice.
The guy he replied to isn’t being sarcastic, I think. He’s been asking for a battery powered mini since his first post. And a Mac Pro with 24 hour battery life.
You call it an advancement, but it was just Apple going back to the way they had always done the 15” models before. From the first MBP in early ‘06 until late ‘13, and from late ‘16 to present, every baseline MBP has had a dGPU. The oddballs are the ones in between, so it’s no surprise that those baseline models would be cheaper and don’t make for a good cost comparison. In any case, why does the reason for their reintroduction matter? It doesn’t. If the reason they put them back in there was because it was a full moon on the day they made the decision, that doesn’t change anything that actually matters. The only thing that matters in the comparison is the hardware, the price, and inflation. As far as a $300 price increase goes, I’m not sure what that is supposed to be referring to. The 15” MBPs generally seem to increase in price $200 at a time, but of course that’s without accounting for inflation, which when you do, generally keeps the price relatively stable over time.
No he’s being serious, he really thinks a battery powered mini would be a great product. I think probably Apple would sell less than 1,000.A battery-powered sarcasm detector would suffice.
I don’t understand the use case; personally when I think battery powered computer, I think laptop. Maybe I just think too much in-the-box.
They can’t even be compared. The SSD in the current MBPs are easy 15 times faster (if not more) than a laptop HDD. Other brands go cheap on the SSD and offer those only having 20-30% of the speed so they can be cheaper.
Honestly though, I’m not saying it to be critical of him. It’s definitely an unusual ask and I don’t see the use case but any time I’ve seen him talking about he’s been polite and hasn’t resorted to name calling or anything because someone else doesn’t want what he wants.
I went to my local Apple Store on Friday but they didn't have any to demo. I went to another Apple Store today and they had one 15 inch MBP and I played around with it and I'm going to get one or two of them. One thing that I need is two sets of adapters for external displays. Apple's solution would cost $280. There are some dual-hdmi USB-C cables that would get the job done.
Looks like a great machine. I'm looking at the 2.6 Ghz system with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD and I'd use an external 2 TB SSD.
Looks like a great machine. I'm looking at the 2.6 Ghz system with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD and I'd use an external 2 TB SSD.
No, but I was positive the battery part was a joke.
There absolutely is a use case for a small computer you carry around and hook up to a display, but there’s no way Apple will cater to such a niche.
To be fair... those other brands' slower SSDs still perform well for the user. It's not often you'll ever reach 3,000MB/sec outside of benchmarks anyway.
What makes any SSD great is access-time. It's near instantaneous with sub-millisecond access since you're reading memory cells instead of a spinning disk.
That's what makes your computer feel faster... rather than straightline speed.
Besides... it's kinda hard to criticize a Dell or HP laptop that "only" gets 1,500MB/s speed. Even a 500MB/s SSD is great.
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I wasn’t sure first time either. I agree too, it’s extremely unlikely to be made. The small battery powered computer you carry around and hook up will likely be an iPhone or iPad, if Apple ever make one.
Maybe older iMacs were laptops-on-a-stand.
But recent iMacs use full desktop-class Intel chips. The 2017 5K iMac uses the 91-watt Core i7-7700K... for instance.
Yes it could if Apple wanted to. Back in 2012 the high end Mac Mini used the same processor as the 15” MacBook but they did not keep that up sadly. It’s really a shame.
Now you go ahead and buy a laptop from HDMI era, dont buy the Mbp. Bet you use floppy disks too ? This is 2018, sir
You’re forgetting that those $2000 models were integrated graphics only. The models with dGPU started at $2500
It’s comical you compare a MacBook pro to “every other computer company” just because they use Intel chips...lol.
Awesome. Now update the non touchbar version please Apple.
lol i'm sure you know this, but that's not gonna happen. they're simply keeping the old unit around in order to charge more for the new one. if they get rid of it, then they have to drop the prices to what they were about six years ago when the retina first came out. they've been doing the same thing with the iphone and ipad.
They were hoping that Apple would switch to Nvidia.
Whatever. Zdigital2015’s answer was much more helpful, being an actual technical answer to a technical question.
While it’s certianly possible for Apple to switch to nvidia, they haven’t used one of their GPUs since 2014. So I don’t really understand anyone getting their hopes up on that.
[doublepost=1531706455][/doublepost]In 2 weeks, getting a base model 13.3...later egpu for rendering, better than overpriced 2017 or used 16/17 Mac
2018 MacBook Pro models feature the biggest yearly CPU performance gains since 2011, according to Geekbench founder John Poole.
Geekbench 4 scores indicate the latest 15-inch models have a 12 to 15 percent increase in single-core performance, while multi-core performance is up 39 to 46 percent, compared to the equivalent 2017 models.
A new 15-inch MacBook Pro with the best-available 2.9GHz six-core Intel Core i9 processor, with Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz, has a multi-core score of 22,439, for example, a 44.3 percent increase versus a 2017 model with a then-best 3.1GHz quad-core Core i7 and Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz.
Likewise, for the latest 13-inch models, Geekbench scores show a 3 to 11 percent increase in single-core performance, and an impressive 81 to 86 percent increase in multi-core performance versus equivalent 2017 models.
A new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the best-available 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, with Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz, has a multi-core score of 17,557, for example, an 83.8 percent increase versus a 2017 model with a then-best 3.5GHz dual-core Core i7 and Turbo Boost up to 4.0GHz.
Poole attributes the increases in performance to additional cores, higher Turbo Boost frequencies, and the switch to DDR4 memory.
2018 MacBook Pro models feature eighth-generation Intel Core processors, with up to six cores on 15-inch models and up to four cores on 13-inch models, both firsts. The refresh marked the first increase in cores since 2011, when the first quad-core 15-inch MacBook Pro models were released.
Interestingly, as Poole notes, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models are now competitive with 15-inch models from 2017 in both single-core and multi-core performance, essentially making it a smaller replacement.
Poole also notes that these Geekbench scores are preliminary, and likely to rise over the coming weeks, as on brand new machines, macOS completes several setup tasks in the background that can temporarily degrade performance. He says these tasks vary and can take up to several days to be completed.
Apple advertises the new 15-inch MacBook Pro as up to 70 percent faster, and the new 13-inch model as up to two times faster, than the equivalent 2017 models, but Poole told MacRumors that other benchmarks may show different results than Geekbench. Performance in real-world usage will also vary.
Geekbench 4 is a popular cross-platform CPU and GPU benchmark from Primate Labs, with apps available for Mac and iPhone and iPad.
Article Link: Geekbench Shows 2018 MacBook Pro Has Biggest Yearly Performance Gain Since 2011
Yeah it’d stay plugged in most of the time, but you take it with you without shutting down, just like a laptop. And you wouldn’t need a UPS just like a laptop. And you could use it anywhere, just like a laptop.
You could use a monitor that plugs in at home and office, or use a laptop or iphone to control it.