That Jonathan Morrison video didn't do much to cover any issues with the thermal problems that a lot of people are having, maybe he got a particularly "magical" or great 2018 MBP (i7 and i9, it seems), good for him but I understand that wasn't the point of the video to begin with so it's understandable he didn't bring it up.
His benchmarks aren't anything particularly unusual or surprising: the i7 at 2.2 GHz with 6 cores vs the i9 @ 2.9 GHz with 6 cores on the same basic architecture showed roughly 10-25% differences in performance across all the benchmarks he did save for the Canon one and that makes perfect sense because the i9 is running at ~33% faster clock speed (2.2 GHz / 3 = 733 MHz roughly so 2.2 GHz + ~700 MHz = ~ 2.9 GHz which is expected.
While it does show the i9 in most situations should actually be better performing, it's not some major massive boost in performance but that's not surprising given the way Intel generation bumps happen anyway. 10-25% on average better performance is great but it's not all that and it might not be worth the additional cost (and of course the potential thermal problems) for the i9.
After I first saw that Dave Lee video that started this whole fiasco, I realized he showed the Gigabyte Aero 15X running Windows 10 and doing the 5K RED Scarlett to 4K H.264 encode with Adobe Premiere Pro and it finished in 7 mins and 18 seconds with what I presume is the i9 and not the 7th gen i7 from last year's model. In that same test, on macOS using the 2018 i9 model and Adobe Premiere Pro it took 39 mins and 37 seconds to do the same encode - that's over 5x faster overall on the Windows platform.
If that's the case, maybe some pros should run Windows 10 in a VM on top of macOS to get access to the much more optimized Adobe Premiere Pro code on the Windows platform - even in that situation with Windows running as a guest OS, the sheer speed that the encode would finish at makes it a viable option.
I'm a big fan of using VMs in situations like this, so call me crazy, but I'd say in the same situation, using Windows 10 (or Windows 7 actually, a better OS IMO) and using Adobe Premiere Pro in the VM appears to be able to easily provide vastly superior encoding performance if what Dave Lee's video stated is actually true.
5x faster, good lord... that's amazing.
His benchmarks aren't anything particularly unusual or surprising: the i7 at 2.2 GHz with 6 cores vs the i9 @ 2.9 GHz with 6 cores on the same basic architecture showed roughly 10-25% differences in performance across all the benchmarks he did save for the Canon one and that makes perfect sense because the i9 is running at ~33% faster clock speed (2.2 GHz / 3 = 733 MHz roughly so 2.2 GHz + ~700 MHz = ~ 2.9 GHz which is expected.
While it does show the i9 in most situations should actually be better performing, it's not some major massive boost in performance but that's not surprising given the way Intel generation bumps happen anyway. 10-25% on average better performance is great but it's not all that and it might not be worth the additional cost (and of course the potential thermal problems) for the i9.
After I first saw that Dave Lee video that started this whole fiasco, I realized he showed the Gigabyte Aero 15X running Windows 10 and doing the 5K RED Scarlett to 4K H.264 encode with Adobe Premiere Pro and it finished in 7 mins and 18 seconds with what I presume is the i9 and not the 7th gen i7 from last year's model. In that same test, on macOS using the 2018 i9 model and Adobe Premiere Pro it took 39 mins and 37 seconds to do the same encode - that's over 5x faster overall on the Windows platform.
If that's the case, maybe some pros should run Windows 10 in a VM on top of macOS to get access to the much more optimized Adobe Premiere Pro code on the Windows platform - even in that situation with Windows running as a guest OS, the sheer speed that the encode would finish at makes it a viable option.
I'm a big fan of using VMs in situations like this, so call me crazy, but I'd say in the same situation, using Windows 10 (or Windows 7 actually, a better OS IMO) and using Adobe Premiere Pro in the VM appears to be able to easily provide vastly superior encoding performance if what Dave Lee's video stated is actually true.
5x faster, good lord... that's amazing.
