XPS 15 VS MAC BOOK PRO?

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What do you guys think is better for Premiere/AFX? Is it true a Cuda card will perform better than an Open GL? This is the XPS I am thinking about...Most of my clients all use Macs, but usually I will use a program called Mac drive when I need to edit off a Mac formatted drive. Im not sure how risky that is.

Dell XPS 15 15.6" Gaming Laptop Computer - Silver XPS9560-7001SLV - Micro Center and this is the MBP

Touch Bar and Touch ID
2.9GHz Processor
512GB Storage

2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor
Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
16GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory
512GB SSD storage1
Radeon Pro 560 with 4GB memory
Four Thunderbolt 3 ports
Touch Bar and Touch ID

$2,799.00

RjL190365 · Answer

The Dell XPS 15 that's linked above, by far. It has a GTX 1050 4GB GPU that (so far) has been exclusive to laptops. This is not to be confused with the desktop GTX 1050, which has only 2GB of RAM.

The MacBook Pro can't use CUDA at all. It has a choice of OpenCL or MetAL - the latter of which is still buggy.

Touch Bar and Touch ID2.9GHz Processor 512GB Storage

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Touch Bar and Touch ID
2.9GHz Processor
512GB Storage