The Quad-core 2017 MacBook Pro can beat the 6-core 2018 MacBook Pro, something that can't be seen as anything other than a disservice high-end MacBook users.ĭave Lee found that his 6-core MacBook was frequently running at 2.2GHz, a 700MHz drop from the i9-8950HQ's base clock speed of 2.9GHz. Several reports have claimed that these new systems can throttle under load due to high thermals, making the system slower than its 2017 counterpart in video rendering workloads.īelow is a video from the YouTuber Dave Lee on the issue, finding that Apple's i9-8950HQ-based MacBook Pro can take over four minutes longer to complete the same workload as his i7-7920HQ-based 2017 MacBook Pro.
Sadly, it appears as if Intel's upgrade to Coffee Lake has not come without issues, especially with their high-end i9-8950HQ-based models. The 2018 MacBook Pro lineup promises to deliver more computational horsepower than its predecessor, offering powerful new 6-core Coffee Lake processors to provide increased processing performance alongside several minor hardware upgrades. Apple's Mac and MacBook Pro systems have been the mainstay of many creative professionals for the last decade, with some coming to rely on the Apple ecosystem to maximise their productivity or to meet their small form factor mobile requirements.
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