EARLY 2018 MAC PRO 1080P
EARLY 2018 MAC PRO PRO

Other systems with integrated graphics also scored better, such as the XPS 13 (66.9 fps) and HP Spectre (57 fps).

EARLY 2018 MAC PRO PRO

With its Nvidia MX150 graphics, the MateBook X Pro reached 117 fps and the Asus ZenBook 13 with the same GPU scored 114 fps. But that’s still a lot lower than what Windows systems turned in at the 1920 x 1080 pixels (the MacBook doesn’t offer this resolution). After the software update, that rate jumped to 46.9 fps. With the resolution set to 1650 x 1050 pixels and the settings on low, the MacBook Pro got only 38.8 frames per second. The 2018 MacBook Pro 13-inch took 16 minutes and 57 seconds before Apple's software update, but that time dropped to an even better 14:47 after the update.

EARLY 2018 MAC PRO 1080P

MORE: The 5 Biggest Changes in the New MacBook Proįor this rigorous test, we transcode a 4K video clip to 1080p using the Handbrake app, which is available for both Macs and PCs.

To be fair, Apple’s relatively new APFS file system is designed to speed up file file copies using a technology Apple calls Instant Cloning. But that translates to performance that feels faster. Now, there are third-party SSDs that are crazy fast, such as the Samsung 970 EVO, but we haven’t seen anyone put it inside a laptop yet. We saw similar results when we tested the SSD inside the powerful iMac Pro. So it would seem that the MacBook Pro's drive is at least twice as fast. Recognizing that it's not an apple-to-apples comparison, the XPS 13 notched 1,208.8 MBps, and the MateBook X Pro hit 627.7 MBps. Windows doesn't offer this benchmark, so we used CyrstalDiskMark on a couple of Windows laptops. So we also ran the BlackMagic Disk Speed test for macOS, and the system returned an average write speed of 2,682 MBps. It took 2 seconds, which comes out to a rate of 2,519 megabytes per second. I had to do a double take when I saw how quickly the new 13-inch MacBook Pro duplicated 4.9GB worth of data. MORE: Apple's New MacBook Pros - What We Like, What We Don't The previous 2017 MacBook Pro hit 9,213 on this test that’s an 80 percent improvement. What about Microsoft’s mighty $1,999 Surface Book 2? It mustered only 12,221 on this test with its Core i7 CPU and 8GB of RAM. The HP Spectre 13 and Huawei MateBook X Pro were further behind with 13,090 and 12,913, respectively. The next closest system was the Core i7-powered Dell XPS 13, and that hit 14,180.

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