Following up on Apple’s announcement as to its updated iMacs, the new 7nm AMD Radeon Pro Series 5000 Series GPU options are another interesting element worth looking into. The Radeon Pro 5300 GPUs feature 4GB of GDDR6 memory for the entry-level $1,799 and mid-tier $1,999 iMacs, but offer no upgrade paths to the higher tier […]
Tag: Polaris
As promising as macOS Catalina is, its apparently failing to work with some external GPU (eGPU) configurations. While Apple has steadily improved its eGPS support, a number of specific Mac and eGPU combinations seem to not be working. According to user reports, it seems that Radeon 570 and 580-based eGPUs are having issues with assorted […]
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. […]
Some new details have begun to leak out about the next-gen MacBook Pro notebooks. Sources have indicated that the new notebooks will have a smaller footprint than existing models, and will be thinner but not adopt the wedge shape of the MacBook Air and 12-inch MacBook. The trackpad is also slightly wider than current models. […]
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 […]