How Fast Is the $4000 2018 MacBook Pro 15"? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin in front of me

is the brand-new 2018 15-inch MacBook

Pro now with the new core I nines inside

it promises to be the fastest macbook

ever with a $4,000 price tag and that's

not even the most expensive one I'm

curious how fast is it really this is

the first time that you've been able to

get anything more than a quad-core

MacBook well pretty much ever

so the across the line you're going to

be eating at least six cores on the new

MacBooks this guy is going to be the

quinine which is gonna be clocked a lot

higher but even the base model of the 15

is still going to be a 6 core or i7

something else new what this generation

is going to be more memory so previously

the MacBook Pro would top out at 16 gigs

of ram a fair bit but not really not for

a lot of creative professionals whereas

this guy you can't option it all the way

up to 32 gigs of ram finally yes so Wes

is currently using a lenovo thinkpad

workstation and even though they're

actually about the same price you can

see there's a huge size difference look

how much smaller this is look that's not

not even close another change is going

to be with the SSD so by default this

will come with a 256 gig drive however

you can option it all the way up to a 4

terabyte SSD no issue is going to cost

you $3,400 you know you don't want to

spend as much as a nice Jesus car well I

guess huh somewhat nice used car as your

SSD there's your option for real though

I mean if you really need that extra

space by all means go for it but as far

as I'm concerned a 1 terabyte SSD or

even a 512 gig Drive should be plenty

unless you're on 10 boletos phone

texting instead of running the camera

oh wow great I've already got a beach

ball that's really wonderful this system

has been on for 35 seconds and it's

already frozen in beach bawling I know

the new feature is going to be the Apple

t2 chip inside and that's also going to

be shared with the iMac pro essentially

it's going to be like an iPhone

processor that's dedicated to handling

all of the background tasks to the

laptop

so think about trains outside your

speaker's your webcam especially things

like security issues like making sure

that everything is correctly signed

ahead of time so to really see with this

new MacBook is capable of I have a

couple of other laptops here to compare

against so first of all I have a 2016

MacBook Pro this is going to be the high

end of that year

so we're getting the core i7 16 gigs of

RAM Radeon Pro 460 graphics as well as a

one terabyte SSD to give you a good idea

of what an equivalent Windows

workstation is going to provide we have

a 2016 Lenovo P 70 this guy's going to

have a Xeon e3 15:05 which is going to

be a quad-core skylake CPU very similar

to actually what's going to be in the

2016 MacBook you're also going to be

getting 32 gigabytes of RAM a Quadro p-m

4000 and 4000 it will set P it's an M

4000 GPU as well as a 512 gigabyte nvme

SSD and last but not least we have the

2018 MacBook Pro now this is going to be

maxed out with everything besides the

SSD the core I 9 32 gigabytes of RAM the

Radeon pro 5 60 X the only thing we're

missing here is a 4 terabyte drive but

with one terabyte of capacity the price

difference between these three is

actually only a couple hundred dollars

so let's see how fast the new MacBook

really is the first test we're going to

be running is Geekbench 4 and this is

going to be a pretty solid test of the

CPU capabilities of all three of these

laptops oh wow wow that's so fast okay

so the lenovo and the macbook are very

well matched so single cores slightly

ahead on the lenovo but multi-core is

going to be a little bit behind but the

20:18 absolutely destroys them both with

5595 on Signal Corps and 24,000 755 and

multi-core that that's fast of course

there's more to it than just CPU power

though so here we're going to be using

the geek bench for compute test to give

us a rough idea of what kind of graphics

capability are going to be on all three

of these laptops so here the lenovo

definitely takes the win with a score of

79 thousand compared to fifty eight

thousand with the 2018 macbook and forty

nine thousand with the 2016 MacBook now

the graphics side is definitely going to

be a big win for the windows side just

because you're going to be getting so

many more options and so many more

powerful cards available and a variety

of Windows workstations

except we have Cinebench now this is

going to be a little bit more of a

multi-threaded workflow as is basically

going to be cinema 4d just rendering a

single test scene and again anything CPU

related the core I 9 MacBook is

absolutely going to crush Meli's are

going to be a fair bit faster on this

single core score but even on the multi

thread with those extra two cores

available it is going to be seriously

fast next up we have the Asha speed test

this is going to be all about how fast

the

these are and all three of these systems

okay that one's not particularly fair so

it looks like the lenovo is using a SATA

based hard drive which means the read

speeds topping out at less than 500

megabytes per second and the read is

only about a 133 compare that with the

2016 which is over 2 gigabytes per

second on both read and write and the 28

key model which is actually going to

clear three gigabytes per second on read

and twenty seven hundred megabytes per

second on the right just like the iMac

pro a lot of this feed has to do with

the fact that it is using a t2 chip to

handle all the stuff including actually

running the SSD so when it comes to

writing and reading it almost three

gigabytes per second that's actually

really cool I've gotta admit that's

really fast next up let's put this all

together and do a little bit more of a

real-world comparison so we have DaVinci

Resolve running on all three of these

systems so we're starting out with some

7k red raw footage which is then being

heavily color corrected with power

windows and it's going to be exported as

a 4k h.264 file okay so it looks like

resolve is definitely a big fan of the

core i9 on the 2018 macbook here the 18

MacBook is going to be a full minute

faster than both the 2016 MacBook as

well as the lenovo p 70 now the P 70

does have other advantages beyond pure

performance so not only is it going to

run a fair bit cooler take a look at the

thermal shots I got on the MacBook which

was running pretty warm especially on

the keyboard area compared to the lenovo

it is a huge difference but on top of

that lenovo has a bigger 4k display and

you know actual ports which is kind of

helpful when you know you're doing video

or anything that's not using USB C so

conclusion time if you pick up the $7000

Q of the MacBook Pro with the 4 terabyte

drive it's not going to perform any

better but if you're looking for a

system that is going to give you a ton

of power and a pretty small and thin

form factor I'm going to say this

actually is a lot faster than I was

expecting

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