MID 2015 MACBOOK PRO 13 HDMI OUT UPDATE
MID 2015 MACBOOK PRO 13 HDMI OUT MAC

Also renders and analysis files were cleared out between tests. We made sure that all caches were stored on a Thunderbolt 1 drive to even things out. The old MBP took 20 seconds and the new model took 14 seconds. (Now back t its normal speed.) We used the multipass web hosting setting in the Master File section on export.

The last test was an H264 export of the original 30 second clip. The old MBP took 2 minutes 38' and the new model took 1 minute and 1 second. Again on a 1080i project we placed two of each of the 4 3D built-in cinematic titles into the primary storyline. The new MBP took 2 minutes 19 seconds or half the time. The old MBP managed to analyse and render the now minute long clip in 4 minutes 41 seconds. We hit the stopwatch when the render percentage reset to zero. It was slowed down to 50% using optical flow. We started with a 30 second 1080i clip on a 1080i project. Sounds good so we thought we would test the figures out. In FCPX terms that should mean a 1.8x hike for optical flow analysis and a 1.5x boost for 3D title rendering in 1080p. Apple's published performance figures of the new AMD suggest up to an 80% speed increase over the previous discrete GPUs The new model still has an Iris Pro like the previous generation, but has moved away from Intel with an AMD Radeon R9 M370X as the discrete graphics processor with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Both go at 20 Gb/s compared to 10 Gb/s on the original model.īoth have two GPUs that switch between high and low performance with corresponding power usage.

MID 2015 MACBOOK PRO 13 HDMI OUT UPDATE

The first obvious change is the update of the Thunderbolt ports to Thunderbolt 2. So the core of the machine hasn't changed much, but what is connected to the Processor has. in fact the new MBP looks slightly weaker on spec. The machine specifications don't look all that different. Both machines are not upgradable either, so no adding more memory afterwards, what you buy is what you get to keep.īut you would be wrong to think that Apple haven't advanced the Retina Macbook Pro in the last three years. On the right there's another USB 3, an HDMI and a SDXC card slot. Mid 2012 RMBP on top Mid 2015 RMBP on bottom (note dirt in Magsafe!)

MID 2015 MACBOOK PRO 13 HDMI OUT MAC

On the left hand side of the Mac you will find a MagSafe 2 power connector, two Thunderbolt connectors, a single USB 3 and a headphone/microphone socket.

Let us just remind ourselves that both screens are 32bit colour 2880x1800. They have the same form factor, the same screen resolution and more or less the same connectors on either edge. On first glance there's not much difference between the first Retina Macbook Pro Apple released back in Mid 2012 and the latest model. So how does the latest model from Apple compare? Has it changed much, is it quicker and is it worth changing to? We experiment. We've been the proud owner of a Retina MacBook Pro as soon as we could get our hands on one after they were announced in 2012.

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