The first tests show how the MacBook Pro performs with the new AMD Radeon Pro Vega graphics

Shortly after the presentation of the new MacBook Air on stage during the last keynote, Apple published a press release in which the new MacBook is also presented in writing. At the end of this document there was a few lines of reference to the fact that "minor" update in the coming days and weeks, MacBook Pros will also arrive. And so it happened. Already yesterday evening, the first benchmarks of the new MacBook Pro configuration with completely new graphics from AMD appeared on the web.

For the 15″ versions of the MacBook Pro, two new additional variants of graphics accelerators have been available since last week. This change in the offer mainly caused the fact that the 15″ MacBook Pros already offer a dedicated graphics card, i.e. the AMD Radeon Pro 555X and 560X models. In the case of the latter configuration, it is possible to go even further and users can order an AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 card for an additional fee of 8 CZK, or a faster AMD Radeon Pro Vega 000 card for an additional fee of 20 crowns. Both cards have 11 GB of HBM memory.

If we look at the performance of the new cards and compare it with the performance of the previous top configuration, i.e. Radeon Pro 560X, the news is significantly stronger. Yesterday was the first day when the new configurations arrived for the first users and the first benchmark results appeared on the web. For example, a configuration with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and a Radeon Pro Vega 20 gpu achieved a Geekbench score of 72 in the OpenCL test. According to the Geekbench database, configurations with an i799 processor reach up to 9 points in this test. In the case of the API Metal test, configurations with i80 and Radeon Pro Vega 000 reach 9 points.

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MacBook Pro AMD Vega benchmark 1

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MacBook Pro AMD Vega benchmark 2

If we compare these data with the results of similar builds with the Radeon Pro 560X, they reach roughly 62 points in the OpenCL benchmark and 000 in the Metal benchmark. The differences between the top versions are therefore between 57 and 000% in the case of OpenCL, and the difference in the Metal benchmark is even slightly larger. The results of the weaker Radeon Pro Vega 15 accelerator are not yet available, as the machines equipped with these cards have not yet arrived to their owners.

 

Source: Geekbench