The WRITE speed was not as impressive at 1450MB/s. (Nov 11 - measured 896MB/s READ and 835MB/s WRITE on Sandisk Extreme 900 USB 3.1 Gen2 Portable SSD.)Īrstechnica's review of the cheapest 2016 MacBook Pro 13 inch reported 2874MB/s sequential READ speed for the 256G Flash Storage.
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The Razer Blade (and last year's MacBook Pro) only transfer at 5Gbps (or around 400MB/s real world transfer rates.) However, it will take a RAID box or PCIe flash storage for the new MacBook Pro to take full advantage of the 10Gbps bandwidth. The big news here is the 10Gbps rating - which should translate into a real world possibility of 800+MB/s. And that should also translate into longer battery life.Īrstechnica's review of the cheapest 2016 MacBook Pro 13 inch revealed that the Intel Iris 540 is the fastest integrated GPU ever to reside in an Apple laptop.įYI, the Apple 27-inch Thunderbolt display works with the 2016 MacBook Pro if you use the TB3-to-TB2 adapter. But the good news is that the Radeon Pro 460 requires less wattage (35W vs 75W) and, therefore, should run cooler than the NVIDIA alternative. The bad news is that with a 1.9 TeraFlops rating, it may not be as fast as the GeForce GTX 1060 (4.4 TeraFlops rating) in the Razer Blade and other Windows laptops. The good news is that the Pro 460 is bound to be faster in all GPU intensive benchmarks. You might recall that last year's top MacBook Pro sported a Radeon R9 M370X. (NOTE: only two are running full PCIe bandwidth on the 13 inch MacBook Pro.)
I'm also glad to see there are FOUR full bandwidth Thunderbolt 3 compatible USB-C ports. (LaCie is touting 2800MB/s for their Bolt3.) Once we receive the new MacBook Pro, we'll be benchmarking various Thunderbolt 3 storage devices to see if they attain anything close to the theoretical 40Gbps. However, the one Windows laptop we tested with Thunderbolt 3 recorded 1400MB/s - or only slightly faster than Thunderbolt 2. Finally! The Windows laptops have been offering Thunderbolt 3 support all year.