Do you have a website that I can check what changed since enabling it? I can't notice any change in my regular surfing over the net.
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Graphics update - June 2012 Laptops
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Awesome.
I see you are totally getting this.
Never mind. I'll move myself along. You all keep measuring your placebo.
No, he's right, on the main website, it clearly states "CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It's completely free."
http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html
"Graphics Card Performance (OpenGL)
This procedure uses a complex 3D scene depicting a car chase (by renderbaron) which measures the performance of your graphics card in OpenGL mode. The performance depends on various factors, such as the GPU processor on your hardware, but also on the drivers used. The graphics card has to display a huge amount of geometry (nearly 1 million polygons) and textures, as well as a variety of effects, such as environments, bump maps, transparency, lighting and more to evaluate the performance across different disciplines and give a good average overview of the capabilities of your graphics hardware. The result given is measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the number, the faster your graphics card."
You know, you shouldn't blindly trust in what marketing department writes
A good modern benchmark is this one: http://unigine.com/products/heaven/
Running Unigine Heaven 3.0 at default settings 1440x900 I get 38.8 fps on a 2.7/16/512 after the update. Someone should test before the update, but Unigine should stress mainly the GPU, and according to http://www.barefeats.com/gam12.html they were getting 36 fps ... not very significant :-D
Regards,
Regards,
Giving it a couple days, there seems to be something wrong in the hd4000 driver. As long as my system is on the discrete gpu, the streaking and image issues in the various browsers and other system operations go away. As soon as it switches back to low power mode, the issues come back.
Very, very frustrating.
Very, very frustrating.
no it isn't. test http://ebay.com/new in chrome. then test it in safari. HUGE difference in speed (re: chrome is still REALLY slow)
I don't think it matters. The website above (ebay) lags also on my PC (i5 4.8GHZ [Overclocked], 8GB RAM, 460GTX).
no idea what thats about. i have the exact same PC (i5-2500k, 8gb RAM, gtx 460) and running the latest chrome. definitely does NOT lag anywhere close to how it does on the RMBP (running chrome).
yep.
The only thing I've found with this update is that, for some reason, it forces re-creation of the sleepimage file at boot.
I disabled safe sleep, and removed the file (/var/vm/sleepimage) since I didn't fancy writing 16GB of data to the SSD every time (pretty much) my computer went to sleep.
I disabled safe sleep, and removed the file (/var/vm/sleepimage) since I didn't fancy writing 16GB of data to the SSD every time (pretty much) my computer went to sleep.
While I don't have a rMBP to test, I did check this website out in Chrome on my desktop, it lagged! Even with GPU rendering enabled.. So I loaded up IE:9 just for a comparison, surprisingly IE:9 was a lot smoother and showed no laggyness when scrolling. Maybe it's a Chrome issue?
I wasn't referring to my cMBP specifically, I was referring to the 13inch cMBP model.
Yup, did this way back when it was first retina ready. After months of going back and forth, I can confidently say that Chrome with GPU acceleration enabled is definitely faster than Safari.
Which option do guys exactly refer to? There a some options that relate to GPU acceleration.
first of all, not even possible. gpu acceleration isnt actually enabled regardless of whether you toggle it in flags or not.
easy test: http://ebay.com/new on chrome vs safari. safari is clearly WAY faster.
Whether this is actual true GPU acceleration or not, it does not matter. They obviously enable a HUGE performance gain.
As for your website example, yes, Safari does run that page quicker. It handles a very specific effect that you don't come across often. However, using a FPS counter, I've seen Chrome run everyday sites like The Verge and Facebook better than Safari, among others (most in fact). And to me, that's what counts.
thats one website. one that usually noone looks at more often that once.
also lags in chrome under windows and doesnt in internet explorer... you'll find a bad example website for every browser.
it looks like the update might have corrected the following issue i've had when switching between 4000 and 650m: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1461119/ need to do more testing, but so far i've not come across any color temperature changes when switching between the two.
Incorrect (at least in Chrome nightly or Chrome Canary). You can trace GPU activity using chrome://tracing/ when scrolling on EBay, and GPU texture memory increases and the GPU spikes activity. You can use chrome://gpu to see what is enabled.
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