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How much more powerful is the 460 than the 455? Yes, I can look up teraflops...
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From what I have seen, its a difference of 5-7 FPS in games. And not much of a difference when it comes to GPU rendering. The big issue here, is that the 455 and 460 are newer generation for amd, but are still pretty weak compared to Nvidia's last gen 9XXm series.
I honestly prefer the Iris 550, or the Iris 580 if they used it in the 15".
I honestly prefer the Iris 550, or the Iris 580 if they used it in the 15".
The 460 better than the nividia 960m, how is that weak compared to their last gen series?
Because majority of the competitors in the same price range use the 965m, which the 460 is 15-20% weaker than.
You mean gaming laptops? The main competitor to the macbook pro would be the xps 15 which uses the 960m
Advertised teraflops are based on Windows drivers anyway. The Mac equivalent is slower on AMD and Nvidia and we have older versions of GL and CL.
exactly, and it uses much less power and physical size doing it
I have the 455, and for me, upgrading to the 460 wouldn't have made any difference. I don't play games, so most of the work I do is text-based.
The one and only app I do use on a regular basis where the GPU plays a big part is Osirix MD, which uses the GPU to render 3D images based on medical CT and MR scans. Even with huge data files and at the highest settings, the 455 renders essentially in real-time, so moving up to the 460 wouldn't have made a measurable difference.
I wouldn't have rejected it if someone gave it to me for free, but it wasn't worth the extra price to either buy the top-end BTO model stocked at the Apple Store (which also includes a processor upgrade and a 1TB SSD, neither of which I wanted to pay for either) or to have waited a month for a BTO model from apple.com.
The one and only app I do use on a regular basis where the GPU plays a big part is Osirix MD, which uses the GPU to render 3D images based on medical CT and MR scans. Even with huge data files and at the highest settings, the 455 renders essentially in real-time, so moving up to the 460 wouldn't have made a measurable difference.
I wouldn't have rejected it if someone gave it to me for free, but it wasn't worth the extra price to either buy the top-end BTO model stocked at the Apple Store (which also includes a processor upgrade and a 1TB SSD, neither of which I wanted to pay for either) or to have waited a month for a BTO model from apple.com.