Performance difference between 16 inch MBP graphics cards

[JosepPont]

Hello! I'm a 16 inch MBP user (i9 2,3, 5500M 8GB, 32GB). A few months ago it fell to the ground that caused a dent and some scratches in the body and the lid. Fortunately the machine continued to work perfectly. Now, after less than a year I sold my machine at a very good price (almost 3k bucks) and am ready to buy a replacement.

I saw that a few months ago the 13 inch was provided with 10th gen Intel processors and the 16 inch with a new graphic card with HBM2 memory. I work with very large 3D models (a lot of Blender and some Fusion 360) that then sended to carve with a CNC controlled by another old PC. I noticed that 32 Gigs of RAM is not enough for me so I'll decide to take 64, maybe 2 TB of storage but i doubt which graphic card to choose, GDDR6 or HBM2 for 3d modeling.

Also, I can wait a couple of months to see if the 10th gen Intel lands to the 16 inch and maybe if some problems will be fixed (external monitor hot and noise, switch graphic card, etc).

Do you think it's worth the wait?

What graph would you choose?

Thank you!!

 

[robvas]

In your case I would buy an iMac

 

[JosepPont]

Thanks, I do not mention that I'm professor and need to move the machine frome home to the college every day.

 

[saturnotaku]

Unless you have a specific need for macOS, a Windows-based workstation laptop with an NVIDIA Quadro GPU would be a better option. They have the latest processors, upgradable RAM and storage, and are available with next-business-day on-site warranty service for up to 5 years on some models.

 

[JosepPont]

Unless you have a specific need for macOS, a Windows-based workstation laptop with an NVIDIA Quadro GPU would be a better option. They have the latest processors, upgradable RAM and storage, and are available with next-business-day on-site warranty service for up to 5 years on some models.

Thank you. I know that with PC I can choose tons of configurations but the problem is that I hate Windows. I love Linux and I'm user from more than ten years ago but always have (and will) the same problems, drivers problems, less (and worse) programs and aplications, not at all integration between other devices. So, in one hand I have Windows with all the programs I need but I hate that OS, in the other hand I have Linux that do not have all the programs that I nedd (yes, I know that blender works with Linux but is not the only program I use) and, in the middle, I have Mac that have all the programs I need and is Unix based system (love it).

For that and because I already use some Apple devices that fit perfectly in "my ecosystem" I want buy a Mac.

But the question is, is it worth paying for the HBM2 and wait for 10th gen Intel processors?

Thank you!

 

[leman]

The Pro 5600M is significantly faster, so it might be better for 3D work, but it all depends whether your bottleneck lies somewhere else. Personally I’d say it’s not likely that the 16” model will ever get the next-gen Intel CPUs - it will be more than a year until Intel has enough production to satisfy Apples demand and by that time Apple will probably be ready to ship their own, faster, CPUs.

As others have said, for your workflow a desktop is a much better fit. Especially since you are talking about 64GB RAM. The Intel CPUs in the MBP are not capable of utilizing that much RAM efficiently - you want a Xeon with quad memory channels if your workloads are indeed that heavy. Maybe combined desktop (iMac Pro) + laptop could be a solution? But that’s also a completely different price point...