How can I boost MBP 2019

[hub_dev]

Hello,

My computer specification is:

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
2,4 GHz 8 core procesor Intel Core i9
64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

I am a programmer. In my daily work, I am running tests and build app. Build time usually takes around 1 minute and running tests around 5 minutes. I am thinking if there is the possibility to improve the speed of this process assuming that I can't do code optimization.

What can I do with it?

ideas that come to my mind are:

1) buy Desktop Apple Mac Pro with better specifications (I think most expensive option)
2) buy PC Tower configure it as a server with better specifications and delegate this process to this computer via MBP shell
3) connect somehow external CPU, GPU to MacBook Pro

I am not sure what is most important of the speed of this process (processor, RAM, graphic card etc.)

Any ideas?

 

[Slartibart]

Which tools, languages, development platform(s) do you use?
How is the RAM pressure when you build and debug your programs? Apple provides a bunch of tools to investigate resource issues like Memory Viewer. I would check here first.

I do not see how a graphic card will impact on compilation/build times.
A faster CPU will compile faster, depending on what you program the GPU will offer marginal improvements, again: depending on what you use and do - of course things are somewhat different for eg. “hello world.c” compared to e.g. debugging and profiling accelerated TensorFlow model training, or an app’s Metal calls and shader code.

 

[jav6454]

MacBooks don't support external CPUs, not that I have heard off. As per eGPUs, you won't see any performance gains. As per optimizing it? Nothing you can do as your memory is soldered in.

 

[astorre]

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