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Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pros sport new AMD GPUs, can drive dual 5K displays

Apple apparently dropped a killer GPU into the 2016 Touch Bar-equipped 15-inch MacBook Pro and it shows. The company, which switched from Intel’s integrated Iris Pro graphics in favor of dedicated AMD graphics, has opted for AMD’s Polaris-based Radeon Pro 450, Radeon Pro 455, and build-to-order Radeon Pro 460 GPUs in the new 15-inch notebooks. […]

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AMD, Nvidia plan new GPUs, could bring significant upgrades to next-gen Macs

Your Mac’s GPUs are about to get a lot more powerful. Graphics titans AMD and Nvidia are set to unveil new GPU products this year featuring Global Foundries’ 14 nm FinFET and TSMC’s 16 nm FinFET Plus processor nodes, thereby allowing for significant improvements in graphics performance. Both AMD’s Polaris architecture and Nvidia’s Pascal architecture […]