MacBook Pro 16" | Geekbench 5
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB GDDR6
9980 HK 9th-generation 2.4GHz Intel i9 Turbo Boost up to 5GHz
64GB 2.4GHz DDR4
Ambient Room Temperature: 77°F
Geekbench 5
Geekbench 5
macOS | DaVinci Resolve | eGPU
An eGPU or two may not provide the extreme increase in rendering power that you might expect, at least not while using DaVinci Resolve.
8-bit color banding
No matter how much bitrate is thrown at this cropped 4K footage, there is no way of getting around banding while staying in an 8-bit space. The same render in 10-bit shows no sign of banding at all, even when compressed down to 10Mb/s HEVC 2160p24. Is this banding apparent while watching on a 6.5” iPhone XS Max screen? no not really. But on a 65” OLED in HDR sitting 8’ away the banding is easily apparent.
AMD Radeon VII - eGPU
2019 MacBook Pro
9th gen Intel Core i9 9-core
AMD Vega 20 4GB HBM2
32GB DDR4 2.4GHz
1TB SSD
macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta (19A471t)
Davinci Resolve 16 Beta 4
1.8X performance eGPU
2.4X performance dual eGPU
2019 MacBook Pro
macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 19A471t
2019 MacBook Pro
AMD Vega 20
Intel i9 - 9th gen 2.4/5.0 GHz 8-core
GPU - Davinci Resolve 16
CPU - Handbrake
Sustained Full Load CPU Frequency
Samsung DUO Plus 256GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive
Samsung exceeds their claim of 300 MB/s read speed, but only with USB-C
Mac OS Extended (USB-C)
AJA
Read: 67 MB/s (25 MB/s USB-A)
Write: 316 MB/s (42 MB/s USB-A)
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Read: 68 MB/S (23 MB/s USB-A)
Write: 317 MB/s (44 MB/s USB-A)
ExFAT (USB-C)
AJA
Read: 62 MB/s (24MB/s USB-A)
Write: 314 MB/s (42 MB/s USB-A)
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Read: 66 MB/s (24 MB/s USB-A)
Write: 316 MB/s (43 MB/s USB-A)
macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Beta 18G29g
iMac Pro 2017
3.2 GHz Intel Xeon W
32 GB 2.6 GHz DDR4
Radeon Pro Vega 56 with 8 GB
560X | WX9100 | Enhanced Noise Reduction
Here’s a good reason to use the WX9100 as an eGPU:
While using the new Enhanced Spatial Noise Reduction of Davinci Resolve to render a 1.5 minute 4K RAW clip, the AMD 560X takes a whopping 1 hour and 4 minutes. The same clip took only 12 minutes and 33 seconds with the WX9100 connected. Hell yeah.
RED Raven R3D 22:1 Render Time
Timeline: 3840x2160p24
R3D Redcode Raw 22:1
Render to: HEVC 8-bit (10-bit still crashes)
Davinci Resolve 15.2
Decode Quality: Full Res. Premium
Timeline length: 4m50s
AMD 560X: 9m50s
AMD 560X + WX9100: 5m19s
Only 1 power window in a separate node added to black out a label. No color wheel color correction added to main video, only RAW adjustments. The WX9100 provides close to realtime encoding. RED’s RAW noise reduction does not take a penalty on render times; i.e. no denoise and maximum denoise were only different by 2 seconds.
macOS Mojave 10.14.2 Beta (18C48a)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)
Processor 2.9 GHz Intel Core i9
Memory 32GB 2.4GHz DDR4
Resolve 15.2 | macOS Mojave 10.14.2 Beta (18C48a)
3840x2160p59.94
100Mb/s Fujifilm X-T3 H.264
encoded to HEVC 8-bit.
WX9100 eGPU - 15 minutes 35 seconds
560X - 40minutes 54 seconds
MacBookPro15,1Intel Core i92.9 GHzNumber of Processors: 1Total number of cores: 6L2 Cache (per Core) 256 KBL3 Cache: 12 MBMemory: 32 GBBonus info: Since I’ll be renting the RED Raven for the first time tomorrow I thought I’d compare Blackmagic’s sensor sizes to RED’s lowest end sensor. The RED Raven does have the same Dragon sensor as it’s older siblings, but dimensions are smaller, leading to a lower resolution and cutoff footprint. RED pretty much shaved the sides of the Dragon sensor, lowered the price and called it a day. Works for me, as I certainly cannot afford an Epic Dragon at this point.
RED Raven
23mm x 10.8mm (Diagonal: 25.5mm)
4608x2160
4.5K120p
URSA MINI 4K
22mm x 11.8mm (Super35)
4000x2160
4K60p
URSA MINI 4.6K
25.34mm x 14.25mm (Super35)
4608x2592
4.6K60p
2018 | 2017 MacBook Pro SSD Speed
2018
WRITE 2.6GB/S
READ 2.6GB/S
2018 MacBook Pro 1TB SSD
2017
WRITE | 1.8 GB/s
READ | 2.3GB/s
2017 MacBook Pro 512GB SSD
Unless a glitch, transfer speed between the two devices in (one in Target Disk Mode) is kicked down to USB 3.0 (5Gb/s)
macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta 18A371a
CINEBENCH R15
- OpenGL: 102fps
- CPU: 966 cb
LuxMark v3.1 OpenCL [LuxBall HDR]
- GPUs: 7,029
- Radeon Pro 560X: 4,634
- Intel UHD 630: 2,566
- GPUs + CPUs: CRASH
- CPUs: CRASH
Geekbench 4.2.3
- CPU single-core: 5,562 multi-core: 22,793
- GPU Intel UHD 630 OpenCL 23,725 Metal 25, 125
- GPU Radeon Pro 560X OpenCL 52,264 Metal 59,049
- NVIDIA 1080 Ti OpenCL 213,571 Metal 169,570 (for comparison)
- RADEON Pro WX 9100 OpenCL 172,863 Metal 151,895 (for comparison)
MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018 Intel Core-i9 2.9GHz 6-core 32GB DDR4 2.4GHz AMD Radeon Pro 560X 4GB Intel UHD Graphics 630 1.5GB
Intel Power Gadget 3.5.3
Not much difference between the two operating systems besides a sharper peak CPU frequency and a 4˚ higher package temperature within macOS 10.14 Mojave.
AJA System Test Lite
macOS Mojave Beta 18A365a
MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018
Intel Core-i9 8950HK 2.9GHz 6-Core
32GB DDR4 2.4GHz
AMD Radeon Pro 560X 4GB
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1.5GB
AJA System Test Lite is a benchmarking app that tests READ/WRITE speed of a storage device as well as its respective maximum capable playback/record frame rate in various video codecs.
The frame rate results represent AJA RAW 12bit DNG, which also being a DNG is most likely close to CinemaDNG RAW. The URSA MINI 4K shoots between 24-60fps 4K to SATA III based CFast 2.0 Cards which cap at a theoretical maximum bitrate of 750MB/s, nearly 1/4 the speed of the MacBook Pro PCIe 3.0 SSD.
In order to realize 4K RAW frame rates like these, either a faster interconnect such as the proposed CFexpress is needed, or RAW compression like what Blackmagic and RED use which lowers bitrate while retaining visual quality. CFexpress uses two PCIe 3.0 lanes to provide a 2GB/s bandwidth.
MacBook Pro i9 | LuxMark
LuxMark 3.1
macOS 10.14 Beta (18A365a)
MacBook Pro 15-inch , 2018
Intel Core i9-8950HK 6-Core
32GB 2.4GHz DDR4
LuxBall HDR
AMD Radeon Pro 560X 4GB OpenCL: 4676
Intel UHD 630 OpenCL: 2558
OpenCL GPUs: 7040
Native C++: 3851
*Any test that included the CPU returned error 'OpenCL ERROR: clBuildProgram(-11)'
iPhone X | Geekbench 4
CPU Single Core 4,264
CPU Multi-Core 10,690
GPU (Metal) 15,253
OS 12 Beta 6 Build 16A5345f
Geekbench 4.2.3
iPhone X (iPhone 10,6) 64GB
Apple A11 Bionic @ 2.39GHz
Processor ID: ARM
Memory 2.76 GB
Navigating the Terminal
Terminal.app
The ~ character is known as a Tilde (pronounced like milled but with a T). ~ is used as short hand for your home directory.
~/ is therefor the same as navigating to your home folder in the finder or pressing Cmd + Shift + H. Since your desktop is located in the home folder, the path is ~/Desktop
using the cd command we can navigate to the desktop using Terminal.
write or copy and paste cd ~/Desktop into the Terminal and hit return. Entered correctly, you will be prompted with user:Desktop user$ (user being replaced with your user name).
We have now successfully navigated to the Desktop within Terminal.
2018 MacBook Pro | CINEBENCH
MacBook Pro 2018, macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta (18A365a)
Intel Core i9-8950HK 6 Cores, 12 Threads @2.9GHz
AMD Radeon Pro 560X OpenGL Engine
32GB DDR4 2.4GHz
OpenGL: 98.19fps
CPU: 1007 cb
Scores are averaged over 5 tests. No connected devices. AC Power. No other apps runnings. Restart before each set of OpenGL and CPU tests. CINEBENCH in fullscreen.
OpenGL score declines down to 80.32fps and CPU down to 957 when two external 3840x2160p60 monitors are attached.
Terminal Commands
Terminal An Apple app that comes with macOS. Terminal provides a window with a command line where you can type commands for the computer's operating system to perform. Terminal is a type of program called "terminal emulator" commonly found on UNIX-based computers.
There are a total of 1361 commands available within the terminal.app emulator within macOS 10.14 Mojave.
All are viewable by tapping the 'esc' key 4 times in a new terminal window and then typing 'y'.
Here are the first ten:
!
./
2to3-
2to3-2.7
:
ApplefileServer
AssetCacheLocatorUtil
AssetCacheLocatorUtil
BootCacheControl
BuildStrings
info credit: osxdaily.com