![]() ![]() I have a feeling I may be in the minority but I like what Apple has done. "However, battery life on the Macbook Pro 15 is.awesome for a quad-core, 15-inch laptop which is funny because it’s the one thing Mac users hate about the Macbook Pro," he said.Īdditional thoughts (per my own experience with both the late 2016 MBP 15 and early 2017 XPS 15): And by the way, gamers also need performance too. That’s really what sets the casual users apart from the professional user. And what do pro users need? Performance above all. " When the Macbook Pro 15 came out I actually heard a groan in the ustration at Apple again not actually addressing the pro users needs. I’m talking OpenGL, OpenCL and gaming-on-gaming, fist and foot in face action," he said. "The Mac Book Pro plays O’Hara and all kinds of 1970s ass kicking happens with the XPS 15 playing Bruce Lee. In comparing the Radeon Pro 450 with GTX 1050, Ung invoked an Enter The Dragon analogy. Gordon Ung, Executive Editor at PC World: The higher end AMD cards will do even better, though the AMD 460 still falls well short of the old GTX 970M and even farther behind Nvidia's current generation 10 Series cards for laptops." It's enough of a bump to net you 5-8 fps more in games like Tomb Raider.The Radeon 450 performs almost as well as the last generation Nvidia GTX 960M used in the Dell XPS 15. In fact, the 15 MacBook Pro can drive two 5K monitors.Our AMD 450 outperformed the AMD R9 M370X in our last generation Mac, though not by a wide margin. PCs that typically stop at 4K resolution. "Also, these AMD cards support 5K monitors, and Apple sees that as an important marketing point vs. ![]() We suspect that's why Apple chose AMD since thin and light were more important for this redesign than performance improvements." "These are low power dedicated GPUs and they generate less heat and consume less power than higher performance cards like the Nvidia GTX 1060. MacBook Pro's Radeon Pro suits its design: Gade gave a more in-depth assessment in a review of the MBP 15 and the Radeon 450, 455 and 460 GPUs that are available on the MBP 15. ![]() "In fact, though the AMD 460 Pro offers a significant jump in performance over the 450, it’s still a bit slower than the GTX 1050," she said, referring to the custom-order MBP 15 model that's $2,600 ($2,599) with the Radeon Pro 460 with 4GB memory. ![]()
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