Would you recommend any of the ones sold through Apple? The quietness of the blackmagic is appealing
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Would you recommend any of the ones sold through Apple? The quietness of the blackmagic is appealing
HS&F is Intel’s stock cooler - heatsink and fan. Didn’t work so well so the chip throttled under very extreme conditions.
AIO is a third party all-in-one liquid cooling setup.
This is exactly what I'm thinking about doing, pairing the mini i7 with Vega 64 in egpu along side a MacBook Pro 15 inch base 2018. Currently I only have iMac 2017 4.2ghz and I need a mobile option, hopefully 2018 15" MacBook Pro will fill that void. I'm also hoping that if the i7 Mac mini can hold that sustained performance I can pair it with the egpu and get better performance than my current iMac.
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I'm going for the Razor core X for £265 with AMD Vega 64, I doubt it will be as quiet as the black magic however for me I'm more interested in a more powerful GPU and being able to upgrade it when I choose to later.
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Black Magic is sooo quite that it is very appealing. Problem is, you cannot upgrade it. Nearly all of the other eGPU's are you buy the box and then you buy the card meaning you can keep the box for years and just upgrade the card as needed. Financially, it makes much more sense to stay away from the Black Magic.
The encoding of "big" video files with HandBrake presets is a better benchmark. For example (old):
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...y-bridge-updated-with-several-results.1111126
The Geekbench browser identifies the I5 as an I5-8400B and the base frequency is 2.8GHz which matches the I5-8400B Intel page. https://ark.intel.com/products/134888/Intel-Core-i5-8400B-Processor-9M-Cache-up-to-4-00-GHz-
The clock speed on Apple's technical specs would imply an I5-8500B. Don't know why the discrepancy.
These may be Hackintoshes posing as MacMinis or there is a problem with GeekBench software. We should know more Wednesday.
Update: someone posted a score with an I7-8700K processor. Clearly, take any of these scores with a grain of salt as these are most likely Hackintoshes.
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The 2018 mac mini is (according to Geekbench) the fastest single-core mac ever built:
https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
If it wasn't for the first couple of dodgy looking runs, the average would be even faster at 5917 Single core and 26427 multi-core:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=Intel+Core+i7-8700B
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https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=✓&q=Intel+Core+i3-8100B
https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
If it wasn't for the first couple of dodgy looking runs, the average would be even faster at 5917 Single core and 26427 multi-core:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=Intel+Core+i7-8700B
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And here are the scores for the base model:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=✓&q=Intel+Core+i3-8100B
Yeah - it seems that the i9 must be thermally constrained in the MBPro case. Not a good buy for sustained tasks. It may still be somewhat quicker in short tasks and in overall OS snappiness though.
I'm really impressed that it looks as if the mac mini cooling is more than up to the task! (of running Geekbench...)