i9 vs i7

[mr.anthonyramos]

I'm going to buy a 15"

My power user apps are Adobe CC (mostly Lightroom, Photoshop, and Illustrator), Logic X, and the design app Sketch.

I'm thinking the 2.6GHz model upgraded to 1TB and 32GB, and maybe the i9 - does that make sense for me?

Seems like we have similar workflows. If you can live with a 10% improvement in performance with the i9 and can spare the extra 300USD then get the i9.

As per my test with handing and processing and exporting RAW files, I was getting consistently better results from my i9 compared to the i7 2.6 2018 Model.

I also have a good inkling that once Apple updates these fan curves, we’ll be able to see maybe a 15% difference in performance between the i7s and the i9.

 

[socialwill]

Alright guys, my i9 finally arrived today. Loaded up Final Cut and it exported my project 50% faster than last years 2017 i7. And performed 10% faster than the Base i7 I tested in the Apple Store yesterday. Playing back h264 videos was a lot faster than the Base 8-Core iMac Pro. Best thing was that it was whisper quiet during operation, whereas last years 2017 i7 and my 2016 13" would hit the fans hard during an export.

Posted up the perf video on my channel for proof. Still need to do a lot of testing to validate the results, but that's what I have so far.

This is not a real world test. You need to be outside, on a sunny day, in your car, with no AC and have the export running 10x back to back to really see what the machine does under normal stressed conditions

 

[Queen6]

If you think the i9 has issues with heat in the MacBook Pro you’ll be having a field day with AMD 8 core CPU’s .

Absolutely as it a full desktop CPU nor is the GPU far behind

Q-6

 

[mr.anthonyramos]

This is not a real world test. You need to be outside, on a sunny day, in your car, with no AC and have the export running 10x back to back to really see what the machine does under normal stressed conditions

Lol ah yea because that’s what all us professionals do. Render in the desert in our cars with busted air conditioners. Haha.

 

[Queen6]

Lol ah yea because that’s what all us professionals do. Render in the desert in our cars with busted air conditioners. Haha.

Don't ask, but in general their's alway power available, even in the jungles of Papua New Ginnea, Tropics, Western deserts of China, Outer Mongolia, Middle East, and the sub Arctic.

Some of us can get around a bit from time to time and our hardware can be shall we say tested...



Q-6

 

[flyinmac]

Wait until the all AMD Helios 500 is released, that will be a monster

Q-6

I made the mistake of going AMD A8 on my last laptop. Spec wise, it was better than an Intel. More cores, more cache, etc.

But, it quickly became a nightmare. I can’t stand to use it. It bogs down quick. And it’s frustrating trying to be productive with it.

The laptop it replaced was a very low end Intel. A basic Pentium model. I began to miss that old machine very quickly. It was so much faster at everything than the AMD machine.

And the AMD driver issue is frustrating. Every update makes things worse.

There isn’t anything that could cause me to want to try them again.

I’d rather stick with Intel. They may not be the best on paper. But they make solid real life workhorses that get the job done.

Apple’s problem is that they have essentially decided what the device will look like, then tried to cram everything into that tiny shell. They engineered it backwards.

Designing from the inside out would be better. Figure out what CPU you want to use. Design an adequate cooling system. Then figure out what you can build around that system.

You design a car around the engine.

You can’t take an existing Prius and decide you’re going to just shove a big block V8 under the hood and expect everything to be ok.

Computers aren’t much different in that respect.

 

[Closingracer]

I made the mistake of going AMD A8 on my last laptop. Spec wise, it was better than an Intel. More cores, more cache, etc.

But, it quickly became a nightmare. I can’t stand to use it. It bogs down quick. And it’s frustrating trying to be productive with it.

The laptop it replaced was a very low end Intel. A basic Pentium model. I began to miss that old machine very quickly. It was so much faster at everything than the AMD machine.

And the AMD driver issue is frustrating. Every update makes things worse.

There isn’t anything that could cause me to want to try them again.

I’d rather stick with Intel. They may not be the best on paper. But they make solid real life workhorses that get the job done.

Apple’s problem is that they have essentially decided what the device will look like, then tried to cram everything into that tiny shell. They engineered it backwards.

Designing from the inside out would be better. Figure out what CPU you want to use. Design an adequate cooling system. Then figure out what you can build around that system.

You design a car around the engine.

You can’t take an existing Prius and decide you’re going to just shove a big block V8 under the hood and expect everything to be ok.

Computers aren’t much different in that respect.

They are the best on paper. Just because the spec says both are a Quad core CPU clocked at say 3.0 ghz. The Intel one is the better one if you’re looking at ones made in the same year. There is a reason why if you look at video game minimum requirement specs you’ll see something like minimum Intel i3 dual core 2.5GHz and AMD Whatever dual core 2.8GHz . Even though both are dual core the AMD one generally needs to be at a slightly higher clock speed.


That’s why gaming laptops are so big. Of course thinner is better but they build them bigger so they allow the gpu and cpu be cooled efficiently.