Yes, I’m happy with the performance…
idk, i’ve owned 7 macs now and this laptop is the best one in terms of performance (macPro, iMacs, MBPs)
i’ve only used Rhino6 for Mac on it (aside from a few initial tests vs V5)… here’s what i have to say about it:
Rhino 6 on this MBP is better than Rhino 5 on my previous laptop (mid2014)… some of it is because Rhino got better and some due to the new hardware.
the main reason i upgraded (aside from just a general 5yr update)… was because there are many times when i’m switching between modeling and CAM and spreadsheets or rendering then email and shopping etcetc… or, i might have 15 windows going and a lot of times, i’d hit a limit where general performance takes a hit… so i’d have to constantly manage what’s actually open which usually means best Rhino performance came when only one model was open (in particular, undo/redo became real sluggish with multiple models.)…
but i prefer to have whatever i want open then cleanup/manage prior to lunch or end of day.
with the new computer, i do exactly that… is it worth $4000 to be able to do that? i don’t know but it’s definitely less annoying
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as for the thermal, preview renderings (in Fusion360) is what i personally do that will max the cpu… i barely ever render to final locally so i just need to see a lower resolution versions with decent clarity…
all i really know (i don’t do benchmark tests) is that the new laptop gets me there noticeably quicker (very noticeable)… maybe 1 minute instead of 2minutes per view.
it’s no hotter than my old one was and there’s no noticeable/drastic performance drop once the throttling limit has been reached… like— i’m sure there’s a slowdown that happens at some point but it’s not “oh, the throttling just kicked in”
but the point is, heat wise, it’s what i’m used to with a MBP (though maybe some quieter fans now)… it’s just a lot faster when maxing cores.
as far as the GPU goes, graphics performance is what i expect… i’m hesitant to say it’s ‘great’ because a point is reached where you can’t just get an even better GPU and get even better performance… once your GPU is ahead of the software(?), then all the GPUs above that level will perform identically regardless of which one is ‘better’… so yeah, i think the Vega20 is in that realm so i can really just forget about it.
anecdotally, there’s a V6 for Mac performance thread here where a few people did display tests using the same model and display modes… this MBP was getting considerably better results than what the other Macs (and a windows desktop) were getting.
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idk, i don’t think i’m the best person to give computer reviews… i just use them a lot and i get annoyed when things get laggy… especially when multitasking… and this thing just doesn’t lag…