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Haswell Prediction Poll: Sept? dGPU?
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I have a feeling that Apple's Haswell pricing structure will turn all your "pros" into "gamers"
Dropping a dGPU from the 15" is an insane notion. Do you people have any idea as to how much Nvidia and AMD/ATI have come with allowing various programs to use the GPU for additonal processing? Sure a nice integrated solution can do the same but it doesnt make sense. Ok I get these arent gaming laptops, thats been established for quite some time, but don't try and say there are NO video professionals that use 15" MacBook Pro's for editing! FCP X is amazing and with a proper GPU its even better, I don't think an iGPU is going to touch a dGPU, especially one made by a company like Nvidia that knows what they are doing. I wanted to avoid this thread because I KNEW it was just going to be a mess but some of these comments are rediculous.
Actually, they are not. The Iris Pro integrated GPU matches and exceeds the performance of the 750M for any application that uses OpenCL, like Photoshop. It's a close call otherwise. The only area where it is "significantly" worse (about 30%) is gaming at high resolutions. But as you said, MacBook Pros aren't for gaming.
Correct or otherwise, you're not going to get much love 'round here for sayining such things. Too many 'heavy lifters' are going to argue it.
I can't see Apple making an awful choice one way or the other. Graphics and general performance in general have all improved so much that any new machine is going to give you pretty slick performance no matter what (in non-gaming applications).
I'm looking at the 13" rMBP, so iGPU it is for me, that I can say for sure.
This. And seeing as how the Iris Pro was put in the bottom end iMac, it tells us its relative place in the lineup.
Come on everyone who voted gather round and find your name :
https://forums.macrumors.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=10412
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Did you get it wrong ? (no shame as long as you were nice about it )
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Did you get it right ?
Did you get it wrong ? (no shame as long as you were nice about it
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Come on everyone who voted gather round and find your name :
https://forums.macrumors.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=10412
Did you get it right ?
Did you get it wrong ? (no shame as long as you were nice about it
Happy I was in the 'got it right pile'.....as it was just what I was looking for
Come on everyone who voted gather round and find your name :
https://forums.macrumors.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=10412
Did you get it right ?
Did you get it wrong ? (no shame as long as you were nice about it
Lol well technically everyone is right. Since the base model doesn't have a dGPU, and the high end model does.
Post #462. I said Iris Pro + 750M.
Missed it by 'that much'.
I moved on. I bought an Alienware 17 with a 4GB 780M.
Keeping my 2012 Mini and iMac...I'm not crazy.
Missed it by 'that much'.
I moved on. I bought an Alienware 17 with a 4GB 780M.
Keeping my 2012 Mini and iMac...I'm not crazy.