X plane 11 mac book pro 15 inch 2017 full#
X plane 11 mac book pro 15 inch 2017 pro#
X plane 11 mac book pro 15 inch 2017 professional#

The Vega 20 is sometimes on par with the Quadro P3200, and sometimes it is only comparable to a Quadro P1000 or even P620.

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If we compare the scores for professional workloads, the performance depends heavily on the individual applications or sub tests, respectively.

X plane 11 mac book pro 15 inch 2017 pro#

The Radeon Pro 5500M in the new Apple MacBook Pro 16 on the other hand is another 20-30% faster.

The GPU performance is also stable under sustained workloads (see The Witcher 3 loop and 3DMark Time Spy stress test), so this is definitely a recommendable upgrade. There is a significant advantage over the default Radeon Pro 560X, because the Vega 20 is ~60% faster. The Vega 20 is about 15-20% faster than the smaller Vega 16 in the synthetic 3DMark benchmarks and roughly on par with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650. We have already shown that in the previous review. Just like the Vega 16, the Vega 20 also uses the newer GCN5 architecture compared to the other Radeon Pro GPUs (GCN4 architecture), which improves the efficiency. We are already familiar with the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 GPU from our review of the 2018 MacBook Pro 15, back then in combination with Intel's 6-core Core i9 CPU. The new MacBook Pro 16 with the 'smaller' and less expensive Core i9-9880H is also almost 10% faster.

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We are still far away from the full performance of the 9980HK anyway our average score (from our own reviews) for this processor is 23% higher. Most private users should be more than happy with the default 6-core CPU, and the i9-9880H is the most sensible choice if you really want an 8-core chip. However, the advantage is small and the additional price for the HK processor is not really worth it. HK CPUs are most likely specifically selected chips that can handle the high clocks, so the processor should be a bit more efficient (slightly higher clock at the same TDP) compared to the recently reviewed MBP 15 with the Core i9-9880H, for example. After that, the consumption levels off at around 57 Watts for a short time and then drops to ~52 Watts. But if you are using the iMac Pro to run demanding pro apps and other 'real work,' it is nice to know it runs X-Plane so well.Our observations are basically identical to the other versions of the MacBook Pro 15: We can see a power consumption of up to 100 Watts when the load starts, but this obviously results in high chip temperatures very quickly. When it comes to X-Plane, it is hard to justify the costlier iMac Pro when a high-end iMac 5K is stiff competition. Speaking of GPU, replacing the Radeon Vega Frontier with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in the 2010 Mac Pro actually produced lower FPS. As for GPU load, a maximum of 6% was reported. So having more than 4-cores was not an advantage. How can that be? For one thing, CPU load never rose above 314%. Though not shown on the graphs, both the 2017 Core i5 iMac 5K and 2017 Core i7 MacBook Pro (15-in) also beat the two Mac Pros running 'c5_test_flight' in 'fps_test=3' mode. Surprisingly, the 2017 iMac 5K 4-core with Pro 580 GPU was faster than the iMac Pro 8-core with Pro Vega 64 GPU in two out of three 'C4' flights. The iMac Pros handily beat both Mac Pros in all three X-Plane 11 tests. X-Plane 11.11v2 running FPS test 5,4 (best quality with fog) using 'test_flight_c4.fdr' replay (cockpit view).

X-Plane 11.11v2 running FPS test 3 (high quality) using 'test_flight_c4.fdr' replay (cockpit view). X-Plane 11.11v2 running FPS test 1 (lowest quality) using 'test_flight_c4.fdr' replay (cockpit view). NMP 8-core - 2013 Mac Pro 3.0GHz 8-Core Xeon E5-1680 v2 CP, 64GB of 1866MHz of DDR3 ECC SDRAM, dual AMD FirePro D700s (6GB each) GPUs (though only one used by X-Plane) display was the LG UltraFine 5K connected to a Thunderbolt 2 portĬMP 12-core - 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon X5680, 96GB of 1333MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (16GB) GPU with DisplayPort connected to a Dell 5K display. IMac Pro 8-core - 2017 iMac Pro 3.2GHz 8-Core Xeon W-2140B CPU, 32GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC SDRAM, AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB) GPU IMac Pro 10-core - 2017 iMac Pro 3.0GHz 10-Core Xeon W-2150B CPU, 64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC SDRAM, AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB) GPU

(Special thanks to Angelique van Campen, publisher of X-Plained, for her input and participation.)

We wanted to see how well it performed on the iMac Pro compared to two Mac Pros and top spec iMac 5K. X-Plane 11 is a serious flight simulator. March 26th, 2018, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist