tipoo

ascii said:

tipoo said:

Is there any detail anywhere on what the Radeon Pro 555X is?

Does the X just denote the 4GB VRAM in all tiers now, and the chip is largely unchanged from the 555? That's what it sounds like, I'm surprised there's no Vega though. The 555 in turn was the same as the 455, so the GPU itself is largely unchanged from the 2016 mid tier model.

I was also hoping for Vega, but with only an X added it must surely still be Polaris.

By the Radeon RX 560X, it looks like a very minor clock speed bump, same as the 560 and 555 already were. 

Is there any detail anywhere on what the Radeon Pro 555X is?

Does the X just denote the 4GB VRAM in all tiers now, and the chip is largely unchanged from the 555? That's what it sounds like, I'm surprised there's no Vega though. The 555 in turn was the same as the 455, so the GPU itself is largely unchanged from the 2016 mid tier model.

Mac Mini with the 8th gen ULV quads would be pretty sweet. Hopefully they revert from the stupid metal cage making upgrades harder for no reason, didn’t get smaller or even more powerful or anything, they just added it expressly to stop upgrades which was a piss off.

lkrupp said:

fastasleep said:

Next we'll see a hexacore 15" I hope.

Do these benchmarks generally get submitted by accident, or are they purposely seeded for some marketing reason?

Benchmarks are a techie’s wet dream but doesn’t the operating system and app software have to be able to use multiple cores in order to see actual benefits?

macOS apps since Snow Leopard using Grand Central Dispatch will already scale pretty well. 

Furthermore, if a problem is inherently serial, we get this tasty 4.5GHz single core turbo from this new chip too, so even non-scalable problems are boosted. 

Further-er more, even if one program doesn't scale well, you can still multitask and do other things at the same time on more cores. 


I absolutely notice a difference going from my 2015 15" quad to current dual core 13"s, even just being a quick ADHD prosumer, lol. 

Four years from the first sale of the unit, not just your purchase. If you have a three year old 2015 Macbook, or even bought one recently off the refurb store, you're still kinda boned.

This is just like the 4 year solder issue extension, started 3 years after the problem, leaving you with a 1 year window for the failure to occur, if it happened after you were still on your own.

It's better than nothing, but 4 years from YOUR purchase date would help refurbs not feel burned.