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MBP 17 AMD bottleneck?
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Not much you can do. Your computer isn't exactly upgrade-able.
Besides, bottlenecks are subjective depending on the application as well. Change the application and your bottleneck disappears. It even says in your image that it changes based on the OS, background tasks and targeted applications. As well, by definition of a bottleneck, you can never truly eliminate it universally. A program that depends heavily on the GPU will have most GPUs as a bottleneck, whereas a program that depends heavily on the CPU would have most CPUs as a bottleneck.
Besides, bottlenecks are subjective depending on the application as well. Change the application and your bottleneck disappears. It even says in your image that it changes based on the OS, background tasks and targeted applications. As well, by definition of a bottleneck, you can never truly eliminate it universally. A program that depends heavily on the GPU will have most GPUs as a bottleneck, whereas a program that depends heavily on the CPU would have most CPUs as a bottleneck.
Get an external Thunderbolt 3 GPU. That's the only thing you can do to improve your gaming performance.
Pfft real Mac gamers rely on the power of the imagination! That's the truest form of a minimalist gaming experience.
The quickest way to improve your gaming performance is to sell your Mac and buy a gaming PC. 
Joking aside, if you look at the performance benchmarks of the GPU it's not really for gaming. It's for content creation. If you are however doing more gaming than anything else, I'd say a Mac isn't the right platform for that and there's not much you can do to improve the performance of your laptop. Getting an external TB3 enclosure with a GPU in theory works, but it's not exactly portable.
Joking aside, if you look at the performance benchmarks of the GPU it's not really for gaming. It's for content creation. If you are however doing more gaming than anything else, I'd say a Mac isn't the right platform for that and there's not much you can do to improve the performance of your laptop. Getting an external TB3 enclosure with a GPU in theory works, but it's not exactly portable.
Definitely so. He could sell his computer and but a new computer, that would run circles around his current one.The quickest way to improve your gaming performance is to sell your Mac and buy a gaming PC.
Joking aside, if you look at the performance benchmarks of the GPU it's not really for gaming. It's for content creation. If you are however doing more gaming than anything else, I'd say a Mac isn't the right platform for that and there's not much you can do to improve the performance of your laptop. Getting an external TB3 enclosure with a GPU in theory works, but it's not exactly portable.
Bottleneck is a subjective terms and depends on application. I have no idea what this benchmark does exactly, but it makes very little sense to me to quantify bottlenecks in percents. But yes, the 560 Pro will struggle with some newer games, especially if you try to play them on higher settings.
Realistically, what you do is 1) install newest Windows drivers (from bootcampdrivers) 2) reduce the resolution and IQ in the game.
Realistically, what you do is 1) install newest Windows drivers (from bootcampdrivers) 2) reduce the resolution and IQ in the game.