MACBOOK PRO VEGA 20 REVIEW PRO
This is the reason why we got double the write speeds on the 2018 MacBook Pro vs the 2017 model when using FireVault. What it is essentially is an ARM based processor, very similar to Apple’s A10 chip that’s inside the iPhone 7 and it handles all the background system processes such as the boot sequence, the microphones, the camera processing, even the disk encryption.
MACBOOK PRO VEGA 20 REVIEW MAC
The 2018 MacBook Pros, the 2018 MacBook Air, and the new Mac Mini all come with the T2 chip.
So this is something that Apple initially added to the 2017 iMac Pro and then to all new Macs released afterwards. If you’re into video editing, the improvement is just about 10% on the Vega 20 compared to the 560X.įinally the last thing that I want to cover in this section is the T2 processor. So if you’re into gaming this is going to be huge improvement compared to even the 560X model. So CPU wise you do get a small improvement but GPU wise you get almost a two times increase in performance. The Vega 20 can also achieve more performance per watt than the 560X, meaning that the wattage can be lowered and therefore the GPU temperatures are lowered as well which means that in return the CPU has more room to breathe since Apple’s using a unified cooling system for both the CPU and the GPU. This is why AMD memory is called HBM2, it’s their second generation of high bandwidth memory and the only way it can be faster than the standard GDDR5 is by being placed inside the GPU rather than outside, like we have on the 560X model. This is because the GPU memory is now inside the GPU itself. I took the back covers off and you can see how much bigger the GPU is on the Vega 20 model. This is because Apple has slightly redesigned the internals. Looking at this, even though both the models have the exact same CPU, it seems like the Vega 20 MBP does perform better even in CPU demanding tasks.
Anyway here’s how the 2017 compares to the 2018 560X and 2018 Vega 20: Apple could’ve at least said that they were going to release a major GPU option a few month later, or release the 2018 models in November, but nope they kept silent and screwed over everyone who bought a 2018 15” MacBook Pro.īut I digress. Not just mine but everyone else’s who bought a maxed out 2018 model just month or so before. That’s because the Vega 20 models especially, are finally a massive improvement over even the 560X that we got a few weeks before. That was an additional GPU option which was the Vega 16 and Vega 20 Options, for the 15” MacBook Pros. Now just 3 months after Apple released the 2018 MacBook Pros, they decided to release one more update. So the main improvement here is in terms of the CPU and the RAM. The 560X is about 10-15% faster than the 560 was in 2017. So aside from the 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads that we get with the 2018 models, we also get 32GB of 2400MHz DDR4 memory, which is even faster than the LPDDR3 2133MHz memory that we had in the 2017 models. So here’s hoping Apple at least add a shortcut on the touch bar to do this! This means that you would need to constantly remind yourself to dig through the settings app and disable it every single time you need to edit and image or video, otherwise your whole color temperature would be messed up. Even in 1st party apps such as iMovie or Final Cut Pro X it wouldn’t automatically turn off. The only issue that I have with True Tone (and it’s quite a big one really) is that if you do any Video or Photo Editing, it will not automatically turn itself off. The new True Tone Display means that the MacBook Pro will automatically adjust the color temperature in order to match the lighting in your room and I honestly love it! It makes reading and writing so much easier on the eyes, and what’s pretty cool about it is that it also works on the TouchBar as well as with LG’s UltraFine 5K and 4K Monitors, as long as you keep the MacBook Pro’s lid open. I mean, they’re were already great on the 15” 2017 model, but now they have even more bass and they’re also louder than before.
The speakers are also way better than they were before. This makes the keys a bit quieter than before but definitely more tactile as there’s a more key travel thanks to the wraps. I type a lot on my MacBook Pro and with the 2017 model I was forced to use an external keyboard but on this one I can comfortably type fast enough without making a considerable amount of spelling errors.Īpple also added a tiny wrap around the keys to protect them from any dust and debris that could get inside the switches.
Like I said in the introduction, the keyboard itself has had quite a big improvement.
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