Rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro may use AMD 5500M

[Redaktion]

A recent claim made by a MacRumors contributor states that macOS 10.15.1 Catalina contains a string of code referencing the new AMD Radeon RX 5500M. This statement has kicked off rumors that the long-speculated 16-inch MacBook Pro will feature the latest mobile GPU from AMD.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Rumored-16-inch-MacBook-Pro-may-use-AMD-5500M.441127.0.html

[tezae]

Worth to know that Apple never used nVidia cards.
So the comparison to 1660TI Max-Q is useless.
So far best gpu in Macbooks was Vega 20 with 4GB HBM .
RX5500M with the 22 CU with 8GB RAM and much better ipc will give big upgrade.
Im not an apple user so will not buy this overpriced laptop anyway but fans should no worry about the performance.

[Worldliner]

The RX5500M running on MSI Alpha 15 consumes 80w to reach its performance level. Don't believe there will be a Macbook that can let its gpu run at 80w.

[opelit]

Sooo maybe not Macbook but next iMac?

[HickorySwitch]

Worth to know that Apple never used nVidia cards.
So the comparison to 1660TI Max-Q is useless.
So far best gpu in Macbooks was Vega 20 with 4GB HBM .
RX5500M with the 22 CU with 8GB RAM and much better ipc will give big upgrade.
Im not an apple user so will not buy this overpriced laptop anyway but fans should no worry about the performance.

Incorrect; Apple used NVIDIA cards until 2014.  Their last NVIDIA-equipped iMacs and Macbooks had the GT 750M as an option.

[Sophist]

The RX5500M running on MSI Alpha 15 consumes 80w to reach its performance level. Don't believe there will be a Macbook that can let its gpu run at 80w.

Apple may use some customized version of RX 5500M, reducing power consumption by adopting HMB2 memory

[Sophist]

The RX5500M running on MSI Alpha 15 consumes 80w to reach its performance level. Don't believe there will be a Macbook that can let its gpu run at 80w.

And personally I think this 80 watts power consumption is kinda unrealistic. The RTX 2080 Max Q has 80W and 90W variant. Even the weaker 80W variant can eat this 5500M for breakfast. Keep in mind that thing has a 256-bit memory bus, and it is using 12nm process.