![]() ![]() Now reboot the machine and VRAM appears normally. There were a few issues, such as VRAM showing as 3MB and the keyboard backlight stopped working - Performance was DIRE.Ī heads up if doing this: I installed Lab Tick to enable the keyboard backlight BEFORE running the post-install patcher. Used Software Update to upgrade from Big Sur to Monterey. I had all 4 stock drive bays filled with non-SSDs back in 2015 and they were scoring around 150 read/write in BlackMagic. If you're trying this, DON'T install the post-install patch now if looking to upgrade to 12.0 Monterey. Used the OpenCore Patcher to upgrade from Mountain Lion to Big Sur. Installed with a decent SSD - getting about 480 Reads in BlackMagic Disk Speed Test.Įdit: Should add here that I flattened the install back to OOBE via the internet recovery. Replaced these, amazingly they still make the charger. ![]() As you can see, the Late 2016 MacBook Pro eclipses this reading, causing the test to peg out at 2,000 MB/s or 2 GB/s. Found the issue was both the 1-way chip in the MagSafe AND the battery had died. Blackmagic’s speed test appears to max at 2,000 MB/s for read speeds. Figured this could be of use to someone.I rescued a mid-2012 13" MBP from the recycling pile. In an ideal world, I would test with the same OS version.Hi Folks. Is there any more ideas how I could test the performance of these two machines? The Windows tests were clearly unequal, as MBP was Win7 64bit from SSD and iMac was Win7 32bit from HDD. PCMark has many categories, I compared them individually, and MBP beat the iMac in every single category, which is also clearly reflected in the overall score. Still, many of the tests were CPU- or network-bound (e.g browsing and encryption) where the disk should not matter so much. This was clearly unequal, as iMac was running from HDD and MBP was running from SSD, so iMac was disadvantaged and it definitely shows in the score. This test measures the general performance in Windows. I don’t know which of the two graphics subsystems the MBP used for 3D, or whether both of them are even active or usable under Windows. MBP performed better than iMac, though not by a huge margin. My hypothesis was that even though the iMac is 2 years older, it has a stronger graphics chip, but apparently, this is not true. The iMac was running 32bit Windows 7 from a HDD Bootcamp partition, and MBP was running 64bit Windows 7 from a SDD Bootcamp partition. I used the standard free 3DMark from Futuremark. I used Blackmagic Disk Speed Test for this benchmark. MBP is more than 2x faster for both read and write speeds. Looks like there has been a huge speed leap in two years. OS X disk speedīoth computers are running the Apple-provided SSD-s. I admit that it’s still confusing to me why recent Macs (all? or only laptops?) have multiple graphics chips, and how/why the system or user switches between them. The MBP score is slightly higher, since it performs better in all aspects except graphics. ![]() I didn’t want to spend money on benchmark tools so I just used the first free one I could find in the App Store, which was NovaBench. They were both maxed out at the time of purchase in terms of CPU and RAM, and I was interested to see how it affects performance and how/if things have evolved in two years.Ģ7” iMac, 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7, ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB graphics, 8 GB 1333 MH DDR3 RAM, OS X on SSD, Windows on secondary HDDġ5” Retina Macbook Pro, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024MB + Intel HD Graphics 4000 512MB graphics, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM, OS X on SSD, Windows also on SSD OS X general performance The configuration policy I adopted for my personal purposes a while ago is “buy a maxed-out configuration, it will last a while”. ![]() I recently got a Retina Macbook Pro and thought it would be interesting to compare the machines’ performance for both work and play purposes. The last home computer I bought was a maxed out iMac in late 2010. Benchmarking 2012 Retina Macbook Pro vs 2010 iMac ![]()
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