Apple Unveils New MacBook Pro Performance Benchmarks - Debuts Polaris Based Radeon Pro 450, Radeon Pro 455 and Radeon 460 Graphics Cards

Apple unveiled its brand new MacBook Pro lineup in an event and i of the more interesting function of the annunciation was the graphics design and performance of the upcoming MacBook Pros. As our readers are well ware, the calculating node in employ by most pure play foundries shifted to the sub 22nm procedure: 14nm FinFET/16nm FinFET depending on who you source. This means that companies like Apple can offer 2x the Performance Per Watt while reducing their cost per bit due to increased economies of calibration. This is something nosotros told you lot about quite a while back.

Apple announces 14nm GPUs for its shiny new Mac Book Pro lineup

Continuing the Apple tradition, the company has also introduced three defended GPUs for its MacBook Pro 15-inch variant chosen the Radeon Pro 450, Radeon Pro 455 and Radeon Pro 460. The specifications of these GPUs are not confirmed at these indicate but nosotros wait at least two of these to exist based on the Polaris eleven GPU. The Macbook Pro 13-inch variant will be powered by the Intel Iris Pro integrated graphics solution. This in plough will be coming in 2 different flavors: the Intel Iris Graphics 450 and the Iris Graphics 550. These integrated solutions are usually accompanied by DRAM-on-chip solutions in the range of 64 MB. Helpfully, yet the company revealed the post-obit performance benchmarks:

These ii benchmarks represent the top end variants of both the 13-inch MacBook Pro and 15-inch MacBook Pro and so you are looking at the benchmark comparison of Intel Iris Graphics 550 and the Radeon Pro 460. Keep in mind that this criterion comparison is primarily showing the difference that has resulted from the jump to the 14nm FinFET node. Since the company has not annotated the benchmarks, here are the details of the testing:

The Video Editing side of things represents Final Cut Pro X operation.
The Gaming side of things represents Grid 2 Reloaded Edition operation (for the Macbook 15-inch tests) and Tomb Raider performance (for the Macbook 13-inch tests).
The 3D Graphics side of things represents Autodesk and Maya 2022 functioning.

From the graphs nosotros can run into that the new MacBook Pros are quite a bit faster than their predecessor thanks to their beefed upwards constituents. Both solutions of graphic processors are not specially powerful (an argument can be made for the Radeon Pro 460 to some extent) and focus on Performance Per Watt. Information technology is a well known fact that MBPs are not designed for gaming, so the graphics solutions inside them volition hands serve the purpose of almost Mac owners. Information technology volition too offer a performance upgrade to those designers who chose the Apple platform as their hub of choice.

Another facet of this announcement is that it constitutes a big pattern win for AMD since it will exist supplying the GPUs for the 15-inch MacBook in all flavors. Add that on to their already existing semi-custom sales momentum and y'all have got an even improve outlook for sales than before. The Polaris architecture is an incredibly efficient GCN iteration that takes full advantage of the 14nm FinFET procedure and is the perfect GPU for casual to moderately heavy graphics workloads - which is the vast majority of Mac related scenarios.