2015 Macbook Pro Photoshop Benchmarks
In this video, I am going to be testing and benchmarking the 2015 Macbook Pro for Photoshop. ►►►Links and pricing in the description below...
► 2015 Macbook Pro on Amazon - https://geni.us/MBP-2015 - Commission Earned
► Mac of All Trades - https://www.macofalltrades.com/
► Data Color Calibration - https://geni.us/SpyderXElite - Commission Earned
► Puget Photoshop Benchmarks - https://bit.ly/PS-PugetBenchmarks
This will also help any graphic designers interested in using the 2015 Macbook Pro for Indesign or Illustrator.
This video comes from a massive amount of questions I have received on this laptop, so If you want me to make a video to answer your questions about the 2013 - 2015 Macbook Pros, I want to answer it with a video.
I have made separate videos about my reasons for buying a 2015 Macbook Pro in 2020, comparing it to the Butterfly Keyboard model and the 16in model You can check out those videos in the YouTube Cards above.
MacBook Pro that I am testing:
Processor: 2.2GHz Intel i7-4980HQ
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Intel Iris Pro 1536MB
Hard Drive: 1TB SSD
Also, something else important to note is some of the power and screen specs:
Battery Life: (Web Browsing: 5:15 (Creative Tasks: 3:30
Color Gamut: 98% sRGB, 76% Adobe RGB, and 76% DCI-P3
Screen Brightness: 340 Nits
The model I have lacks a dedicated GPU. And we will talk about some of the effects when we get to the video editing benchmarks in this video.
The first benchmark tests we are going to look at are the Photoshop tests. Since Photoshop is the most labor-intensive program on a laptop for designers and photographers I decided this is where I would focus the tests on. Indesign and Illustrator work great on the 2015 Macbook Pro, so no concerns there.
I ran a benchmarking simulation from Puget Systems in order to test the amount of time to took to complete each task in Photoshop. I will point out some of the more common actions that photographers will use. Opening one raw file takes 2 seconds, but to open 100 takes on 5.5 seconds. Which means there is an exponential effect here. The 2015 Macbook Pro is not experiencing bottlenecks when called upon to do a larger version of a small task.
Puget Photoshop Benchmark: Link
Now, it does take almost 2.5 to save a large PSD file, but compared to another laptop with the same processor that is in the 2020 16in Macbook Pro (the i7-9750H), you’re only saving about 30 seconds. Now, 30 seconds is a decent chunk of time, but it isn’t terrible.
Here are the full specs of that i7-9750H processor place next to the 2015 Macbook Pro.
So, overall the 2015 Macbook Pro is a solid Adobe Creative Cloud laptop for Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator.
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