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Macbook Pro 2019 Benchmarks and First Impressions! Post yours!
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If the app isn’t threaded, you’re looking at single core clock speed and I guess it’s turbo boost max.
We will see if and when. For the most part we should be hoping for none, outside of the usual "I spilled" For those that use and or rely on OS X the Buttery Keyboard issues bring absolutely no joy whatsoever...
Q-6
Yes, because Apple changed the thermal paste for the cpu, FINALY they put a decent one after 2 years of issues especially with the i9
Yeah, TIM (you know, the compound, not the other one) has nothing to do with it, laptop still maxes out at 50-55W. But it is a lot faster, higher clocks at this power level - only voltage change can do it.
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The die is naked in laptops, soldering doesn't apply.
Voltage & power draw, pretty clear. Apple must have pulled a couple of guy's off emojis for a week or so
Just takes a little effort, then again if you cant be arsed...Time for Apple to get real, as the guys who drive the Mac aren't just little rubber people who are obsessed with their Farcebook profiles or impressing at Starbucks. They are people that need to get work done in the real world to turn coin, if Apple is incapable of delivering others can and do...
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The guys from LTT believe Apple implemented some fancy undervolting techniques, since the behaviour in Bootcamp/Windows is very different from macOS
so I just brought home the 8 core base model.
two things:
a) I can actually hear the CPU when it runs, it's a little high pitched, quick stop/starting sound
b) the touchID seems a little wobbly, I tap it and it makes a plasticy sound
Either of these normal based on others' experience? Thanks!
two things:
a) I can actually hear the CPU when it runs, it's a little high pitched, quick stop/starting sound
b) the touchID seems a little wobbly, I tap it and it makes a plasticy sound
Either of these normal based on others' experience? Thanks!
I rely on Mac OS and i have about 15 users.
Its called CPU whine. Some of my models over the years have had it, some not. In the case of my new 2.4 8 core, no whine to be heard. Touch ID button solid as a rock.
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Been using it all day and its quite wonderful so far.
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My friends 2.6 6core just arrived. And it got a 2338 on CB R20 in a warm-ish room.
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Back to the 8 core 2.4-
Like this? The room is a good 10 degrees warmer FYI. Interesting how iStat and IPG report different values for the CPU frequency. Maybe just a biproduct of out of sync polling rates.
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Back to the 8 core 2.4-
Like this? The room is a good 10 degrees warmer FYI. Interesting how iStat and IPG report different values for the CPU frequency. Maybe just a biproduct of out of sync polling rates.
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Thank you for your post. Could you please check the idle temperature for the 6-core? I saw a video that the 8core idle temp is ~35°C, 10°C lower than the 2018 model. What about the 6-core?
Thanks, good thing that room temp was high, it was much easier to run some comparison tests with the 6 core. Looks like -65mV undervolt on CPU by Apple, pretty conservative, but still yields good results. I've set my GS65 to 0.94V at 3GHz, and everything scales beautifully with 8:6 ratio - 38W, 2280 score vs your 47W and 3030. More or less, because it wasn't constant on Mac. If you'll be bored, you could disable turbo (with an app) and run this again at 2.4 GHz flat - then we could nail exact number.
The thing is, the 8:6 ratio holds at same frequency and voltage. To match the score/performance the 6 core needs higher clocks and voltage eventually surpassing the 8 core requirements. My best CB20 was 2950 on the 6 core, but this was with 1.2V and over 60W.
That 8 core i9 is the best, most versatile laptop CPU ever released. If anybody is on the fence getting the i9 is a no brainer, especially that it is only $100 more if everything else is even. Performance/cost ratio is ridiculously low by Apple standards, especially when compared to $400 fee to upgrade to worthless 8th gen i9 a year ago. The only question is, if the undervolt applies also to 2.3 and if the $200 up-charge to 2.4 is worth it.
I had a 2016 that was pretty silent. I now have a 2018 and I can hear the SSD work at times. Apparently, this isn't unusual. A lot of people have brought up hearing SSD noise. It's definitely not my favorite sound, but it's bearable.
I can also hear the CPU when I'm using an external mouse and have my MBP connected to my LG 5k. If I'm viewing on my laptop screen or am using the trackpad on the MBP, there's no noise. Most of the time, it's my SSD making noise.
On the 2.6 6c 2019 - Fluctuating very slightly around 29c at 1.3ghz with nothing open just looking at the desktop. The room is about 22 degrees celsius/73F.
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I see in your screenshot that iStat Menu shows only 6 Cores but you have i9-9980HK 8-Cores.
Am I wrong?
Thats funny. You are right. It does only show 6 cores and I do have 8. Look above in the visual meters and theres 8 bars. I wonder if they just havent updated iStat yet? Just looked in the prefs and I don't see a way to add 7 and 8.
As a point of reference I have a 2018 and 2019 MacBook Pro both with their respective upgraded i9 CPUs and the Vega 20 cards, 32GB RAM. They were right next to each other, both no direct sunlight or lamps on them, note the 2018 is about 3 degrees cooler. I think there is some error in this kind of test, but for what it's worth...
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Well, I went back and swapped it out. New one doesn't make a peep, even with dropbox pegged the cpu with 130 threads. keyboard is getting kind of warm, but I guess that's the cost of indexing and dropbox updates the first day.
OK one of my favorite things so far:
I have been working with zip archives of several thousand files each getting in the 2-4gb range (gmail takeout and other databases). My old machine (13" 3.5ghz 2017) did these ok but it wasn't stellar. The 2019 8 core is ravaging these files. Just absolutely creaming them. CPU steadily working them over with turbo @ 4.5ghz.
I have been working with zip archives of several thousand files each getting in the 2-4gb range (gmail takeout and other databases). My old machine (13" 3.5ghz 2017) did these ok but it wasn't stellar. The 2019 8 core is ravaging these files. Just absolutely creaming them. CPU steadily working them over with turbo @ 4.5ghz.
I have been compressing folders all day and I have very responsive AC in the room I am in. One thing I am noticing which I don't know if Ive ever noticed quite so much before is how much ambient temperature seems to affect it. I was just doing 3 ZIP encodings at one and it was steady at 4.3ghz @ 300% CPU and it was totally silent for a good 20 seconds. One task completed and it starts to edge up towards 4.4 and the fans come on pretty strong but still its quite in touch with itself.