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HASWELL dGPU: WHICH dGPU?

Haswell rMBP dGPU: NVIDIA or AMD?

  • NVIDIA

    Votes: 49 89.1%

  • AMD

    Votes: 6 10.9%
  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .
GSPice

GSPice

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Alright, so lets throw a bone to those who are hoping for and/or expecting that the Haswell rMBP will include a dGPU, at least as an option.

Which dGPU do you think could end up in the rMBP? Here's a few in some recent competing notebooks:

AMD Fire Pro M5100
NVIDIA Quadro K1100M/K2100M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M/GTX 765M

Note: if you think there's no way in Woz that there'll be a dGPU, feel free to chime in with intelligent hypotheticals, but keep the iGPU flaming in this thread. :D
 
Nvidia

I hope it will be NVIDIA.
It's so much better for my workflow.

i'm already disappointed by the fact that the announced Mac Pro will only have AMD.
 
Krazy Bill said:
He means, Intel's iGPU.
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Hence its irrelevence to the thread question, namely which dGPU might be in the next MBP.

Krazy Bill said:
And you do know there is more than one kind of rMBP, right? Yeah, I know... folks here tend to forget us lowly 13.3" users. :(
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Yeah, you have to admit though, there aren't that many epic threads around here discussing which version of Intel HD graphics will or won't be in the next 13-incher. ;)
 
GSPice said:
Hence its irrelevence to the thread question, namely which dGPU might be in the next MBP.
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Well, I'm rootin' for you guys. I just hope you all won't be slumming with us pathetic HD5000 users by joining the iGPU "only" ranks. :D

Epic and humbling threads those will be should this happen.
 
Krazy Bill said:
Well, I'm rootin' for you guys. I just hope you all won't be slumming with us pathetic HD5000 users by joining the iGPU "only" ranks. :D

Epic and humbling threads those will be should this happen.
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It's surreal.. hoping for something that makes so much sense, when that thing may be so very obsolete to Apple.. :D
 
ohbrilliance said:
Pretty sure you don't know the difference between "discrete" and "dedicated".
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Brilliant. :D

Anyway, nvidia seems to have the edge in mobile dGPUs.. Although AMD obviously came through with the Pro units..
 
You'll never see a workstation card in a MacBook Pro unless they lower their TDP or Apple goes insane.
 
Have had Nvidia in PCs for years (since 1999) without an issue.

Have AMD in my MBP. Has issues (sometimes randomly doesn't work in bootcamp until i sleep the machine and wake it up again - driver issue, clearly)


NV for me.


edit:
BUT

I'd rather have dual quad core haswells (same thermal envelope as haswell + dGPU) with the pair of Iris iGPUs running in something like SLI. 16 CPU threads!
 
there won't be a pro gpu in the rmbp, for me its either the 750m or 765m (very different performance, much higher) for amd we have the 8870m

Im hoping for either the 765m or the 8870m, but Im not confident that the 765m has the thermal headroom nor that the psu can handle the load, so its basically 750m or the 8870m

I hope its the 8870m, given that the 750m under performs it in every way aside cuda apps

well cuda is going to die in the pro market, at least on the creative one is dying already for other uses its alive and not doing well, kepler is designed for gamers, the hope is maxwell
 
sonyisawesome said:
Fail. There isn't one. Nice try, though.
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Nice try... try harder next time

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760M is the most likely or a 750M. A 765M is just too hot. No way.
A 750M IMO is too slow, as it is just an overclocked 650M. Why bother with that over Iris Pro.
A 760M is possible and fast enough to be worth it.

The pro graphics Apple will never use. Look at those TDPs. Most importantly the pro graphics are really expensive because of the drivers and those don't exist for OSX so it is kind of pointless to just pay for a brand while you end up dealing with Apple's graphics drivers anyway.
AMD 8800M is just not quite as efficient as Kepler in gaming. It is better in GPGPU though.

So the only likely possibilities are 750M and 760M as far as dGPUs go.
I still would put my money on Iris Pro.
 
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