The Apple MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics is rated

REFERENCE RESULTS surfaced online for the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro featuring AMD's coveted Radeon Pro Vega 20 GPU.

The scores give us an idea of ​​the performance improvements offered by the new card compared to the latest edition of the 15-inch MacBook Pro, which featured a standard Radeon Pro 560X graphics card.

When unveiled last month, Apple announced that AMD Vega editions of its MacBook Pro would be "up to 60% faster" than the Radeon Pro 560X for "handling video, 3D, rendering workloads and computationally demanding ".

Well, the real results are now available.

According to one MacRumours This machine, equipped with a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, a Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics card, 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, scored 72,799. reference points for OpenCL.

Additional benchmarks found on Geekbench with a similar machine using an upgraded Core i9 processor demonstrated OpenCL scores of 75817, 76017 and 80002. This, compared to a machine with similar specifications but feeding a Radeon Pro 560X graphics card on Geekbench , has scores of about 65,000.

Of course, this suggests that the latest Radeon card offers much better graphics performance.

However, only the top-of-the-range Radeon Pro Vega 20 models are available at the moment, as no one has released partitions for the less powerful version of the Vega 16 card.

Apple has quietly introduced AMD graphics options into its MacBook Pro lineup at the end of October. Although AMD GPUs are not new on Mac computers, since the MacBook Pro had already shaken the Radeon Pro 560X, this new version meant that Cupertino was importing for the first time AMD's Vega-based GPUs on its expensive laptops.

On the website of the Apple Store, the cheapest option for the MacBook 15 equipped with Vega 20 costs € 3,014, while the Vega option 16 is offered from € 2,924 . Ouch. μ