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Some 15-Inch MacBook Pro Models Misreporting Intel Iris Pro 580 Graphics
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The Apple fangirl is strong in this one.
My maxed out 15" I returned yesterday also showed me having a Iris Pro 530...I was like wtf? Atleast now I know it actually had a 580.
Or did it?
These new MBP's are hilarious. You don't release a product when there are this many issues with the prototype.
Or did it?
These new MBP's are hilarious. You don't release a product when there are this many issues with the prototype.
Precisely this. Ignoring all the news about year old cpu, 13" rMBP speaker grills being pointless etc etc, how can they forget to enable SIP!?
Everyone is going to pile on Apple for this, since that's the cool thing to do on the Internet right now, but this is simply an errant string in this particular build of MacOS causing System Information to misreport the GPU. It in no way affects anything performance wise.
The more interesting takeaway is why Apple isn't shipping the SKL-H 4+4e SKUs when one certainly would have expected them to. Clearly this string being present means that at some point the OS team thought it might be used. So of course everyone will say "margins" or "greed", but the reality is that Intel have entirely failed to deliver 14nm mobile 4+4e. The last HQ Iris Pro part seen in the wild aside from an Intel NUC was in the Haswell era. Hence the last 15-inch MBP used Haswell Refresh.
The more interesting takeaway is why Apple isn't shipping the SKL-H 4+4e SKUs when one certainly would have expected them to. Clearly this string being present means that at some point the OS team thought it might be used. So of course everyone will say "margins" or "greed", but the reality is that Intel have entirely failed to deliver 14nm mobile 4+4e. The last HQ Iris Pro part seen in the wild aside from an Intel NUC was in the Haswell era. Hence the last 15-inch MBP used Haswell Refresh.
Feels like these new MBPs lack the fit and finish that most Apple products have. Glad I upgraded last year to the 2015 model. Yikes.
Apple Apologetic Syndrome is peaking in this post.
Me neither. Interesting. I guess that means if you often use the integrated GPU on the 15-inch Pro to conserve power, you may as well get the new 13-inch MacBook Pro instead. That way you'd get better performance with its Intel HD 540/550.
In fact - the 2015 15-inch Pro must outperform the 2016 15-inch on almost every benchmark if you're not using the discrete GPU.
Food for thought!
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There is a thread in the MBP forum about screens going red and blocky on 15" models. Seems to be mostly models with the 460 dGPU.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/graphic-card-issue-new-2016-15-bto.2015343/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/graphic-card-issue-new-2016-15-bto.2015343/
So what you're suggesting is that Apple probably originally planned on including the 70 series HQ processors, but Intel failed to deliver? This honestly seems quite plausible.
I'd say it's level pegging with the Apple-Hating-Pile-On-Every-Insignificant-Issue Syndrome.
Why should intel deliver? They have no viable competition to their current chips, why make faster ones, when intel can continue amortizing their development costs and increasing their real profit. (Not all expenses reduce the cash in your bank account but do reduce tax obligations.)
I don't make any comments on this forum to be "cool". If Apple was making a product that was worth praise, I am pretty sure there would be lots of positive comments on here.
Yeah, there will be some complaints, but if the products lived up to the Apple products from the past "Hello" events, then most of the comments would be people wanting to buy the product.
Stop complaining! It's a little bug that means "money in the Bank" if you sell privately claiming a more powerful graphics card on trade-in for the next gen MBP. Just don't sell your MBP to ifixit. 
well the graphics are inside the CPU, so what CPU is it shipping with? The HD 530 mobile quad CPUs were out in Sept 2015, then the Iris Pro version came out in March 2016 (probably after Apple made the order as Intel likes to screw with them). Maybe this is Apple screwing them back?
Theirs so many back and forths about this machine. I mean. They have to be faster than last years MacBook Pro.
Actually, all of the quad-core Core i7 processors have a TDP of 45 watts. So it's probably not a power consumption concern. More likely, it's a concern about Turbo Boost. As seen in the attached Wikipedia screenshot, quad-core mobile Skylake processors with Iris Pro graphics can only boost one core's operating frequency at a time while models with HD Graphics can boost all four cores' operating frequency simultaneously.
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Not really an real issue. As long as the Kernel Extensions are working properly, these models should be fine.
That's really odd that "About This Mac" reports two different chips based on whether you're plugged into power. Wouldn't the back-end of that program just be reading some address off the chip for that? Does anyone know how that works? I'm just estimating from my limited experience in Firmware programming.
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