Blackmagic Forum

I have a 2018 15" MacBook Pro arriving next week: 32GB, 2TB SSD, six core 19, 4GB Radeon Pro 560X GPU. Primarily for a little more grunt when travelling with Samsung 2TB T3 & a GH5 kit. Interested to see this bench test between the 2017 and new 2018 MBPs here:


& like many others was surprised about the slower rending performance of the 2018 with FCPX. Possibly is an optimisation thing? & the next update may be a little different.

Looking fwd to then seeing how Resolve 15b Studio runs in comparison to my other computers & FCPX; my former 13" MBP was certainly useless apart from very basic ingest, plus Resolve is a bit problematic on the smaller screen. I'm assuming Blackmagic are 'on it' given the new eGPU relationship etc.

Mmmm ... even more strange behaviour reviewed here:



Blogs seem full of it ATM, calling it 'Throttlegate' ....
In any case, now even more looking fwd to doing some bench-testing with DR15 soon. Feeling luck, if not, it goes back.

Make sure to let us know how long it takes to fry an egg on the back of the thing.

(kidding)

I saw the D2D vid yesterday, and it's disturbing, for sure. I find it hard to believe Apple didn't see this kind of thing coming. I mean - that's some serious throttling. I wonder how they plan on addressing it...

Throttling does happen and it's now widespread news.
What is not nice is that long render in Resolve may actually finish earlier with theoretically slower i7 CPU than with i9 which will be heavily throttled.
One of the things which you can do is use 3rd party fan control app and boost fan speeds (Apple tries to be quite which means much earlier throttling).

Sorry to the moderators in highjacking a forum about DR15b, I had imagined this might go elsewhere ...

Thanks, yes have seen the 'pro' reviews now & cancelled the order. Interested to watch that space over the next few months - selling a $7k & so-called 'pro' machine that can't even do near its advertised base clock frequency (let alone the turbo which will never be achieved). Litigation. The thermal issues appear on other i9 notebooks as well, but nowhere as near as pronounced as this.

Have worked with macs and large scale uni installations for 30 years, this is very disappointing. Have used fan controls too, works to a degree if you like the extra noise. Not at all suitable in a recording studio. En route, this one will also burn your legs even more.

Moving on. I went for a Dell XPS instead for $3k less Including touch pen, 3 year on-site & accidental damage warranties. Great laptops, but I didn't get too over the top with their own i9, instead went for an 8th gen Intel 2-in-1 convertible. I will try to get back if and when I have some relevant experiences with the new mobile kit ... and actually talk about Resolve. Loving it BTW - another reason to dump the MPB – I hardly need FCPX anymore.