Following up on last week’s story about Apple releasing 2018 model 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with the Radeon Pro Vega 16 and 20 graphics cards, the first bookmarks for these notebooks appear to have been leaked.
In short, they’re pretty impressive and help show what to expect in terms of performance improvements over 15-inch MacBook Pro models with the standard Radeon Pro 560X graphics card that was previously the highest-end option available.
The machine, which includes a 2.6GHz Core i7 Intel processor, a Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics card, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, earned an OpenCL score of 72799. Additional benchmarks found on Geekbench with a similar machine using an upgraded Core i9 processor demonstrated OpenCL scores of 75817, 76017, and 80002.
The new high-end MacBook Pro, complete with a Core i9 processor, snagged a Metal score of 73953, blew out machines with similar specs and the Radeon Pro 560X graphics cards, which earned maximum OpenCL scores of right around 65000 and Metal scores of approximately 57000, suggesting much higher graphics performance with the new Radeon Pro Vega 20 card.
At the current time, benchmarks are only available for the higher-end Radeon Pro Vega 20 card, with no data available for the Radeon Pro Vega 16 card. CPU benchmarks on Geekbench between machines using the new cards and the existing cards are similar because there have been no changes to the CPU.
The Radeon Pro Vega graphics cards are currently only available as a build-to-order option on the high-end 15-inch MacBook Pro model, which retails for $2,799. The Radeon Pro Vega retails for an additional $250 as a build-to-order option, while the Radeon Pro Vega 20 sells for an additional $350.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via MacRumors