Will i notice a difference between early 2011 and 2015?

Hello people,

Basically what the title says, i have early 2011 MBP with 2.2 quad i7, samsung EVO SSD, 8GB and 6750M 1GB GDDR5. Will i notice a performance boost if i get mid-range new mbp 15?
[edit] ok midrange has integrated GPU(just noticed), i guess we are talking higher end now.

Benchmark says that the performance boost is a whooping 1.5x (which is hardly what Moore's law suggested but still kind of ok), what i am worried is that i won't even feel it. Anyone upgraded and noticed the differnece?

 

Unless you're doing something that's pushing the CPU hard, not so much. Personally, I haven't really seen much of a difference in normal usage ever since Sandy Bridge came out.

As a side note, since I had to do an edit for it (and for some reason couldn't leave an edit note ). The language filter is there for a reason, if a word is filtered, please don't attempt to bypass it.

 

I upgraded from a 2008 model to a 2014 and noticed the improvement - but I had an SSD in the old model and that kept it going. That machine is still usable but the new machine gives me much better battery life, lower weight and faster network and bus speeds.

I could still use the 2008 model as it will get the job done but the 2014 is nicer.

If you don't require high-CPU performance or a lot of memory in your regular work or play, then you might not notice much of a difference. This is why PC sales in general are slowing as people are taking longer to upgrade because software demands have remained stable.

 

My 2014 blows the doors off my girlfriend's 2010 with just about everything. Of course hers is a 13“ base model with a 5200rpm HD. So a bit of a difference.

Anyway it would help if you shared more about what you plan on doing with it. I do quite a bit of photography work with my D810. It was easily worth the money for my situation.

 

As far as power is concerned i do occasionally game (whatever games/ports are available on osx) — i got to say games run poorly WoT port for example runs on minimal settings, Diablo3 almost minimal as well if you want to do some heavy grouping etc — and use Adobe CC.

 

You will see a difference in terms of GPU performance then, but still, you'd get overall better performance if you could use bootcamp and Windows for games.

 

Ye, i did it to play witcher2 and i even turbo boosted the cores, the system would occasionally overheat and shut down though even with lowish settings. It's a bit funny because i can see people playing games on the same hardware on the youtube but when i try it my framerate is usually way lower.

 

Well, if you were experiencing shutdowns due to heat, you were likely throttling before that, the built in hardware throttling that comes with pretty much ever notebook component these days. A good cleanup of your vents would likely help and maybe a repaste (will void any warranty).

 

No, you won't if you're just doing office stuff, web browsing, etc. Sandy Bridge based systems are still fully capable of general tasks, especially when paired with a SSD.

 

You would see a noticeable or even huge boost in battery life. Performance difference is much smaller, especially on CPU.

 

My 15inch 2013 is leaps and bounds better then any pre 2012 model I've used.

Though, all of the other pre-2012 models I've used didn't have an SSD, so that has something to do with it for sure

But the battery life is also fantastic, and it almost never gets hot on the bottom, like I've noticed on many of the others.