[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9360 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.x - LTS (Long-Term Support) Guide

[egore]

MacBookPro16,3

Have we looked into this model number? I know it is years newer in the Apple products line, but the CPU used is much closer to what's in our 9360. MacBookPro16,3 has a i7-8557U chip in it, very close to our i7-8550U (Apple rarely is on the bleeding edge of hardware, so it's possible this chip generation is just now making it to the MBP's). Is it possible using this model would be a better choice for our lappy's? Thanks.

 

[jkbuha]

thanks for sharing .

but voltageshift and AnVMSR both broken under bigsur.
i will report back when voltageshift get fixed.

voltageshift working for me under bigsur. you need to recompile using latest version of xcode.

 

[jkbuha]

MacBookPro16,3

Have we looked into this model number? I know it is years newer in the Apple products line, but the CPU used is much closer to what's in our 9360. MacBookPro16,3 has a i7-8557U chip in it, very close to our i7-8550U (Apple rarely is on the bleeding edge of hardware, so it's possible this chip generation is just now making it to the MBP's). Is it possible using this model would be a better choice for our lappy's? Thanks.

Potentially, yes. It comes down to whether that MBP uses an external GPU or not. Personally I find MBP15,2 has worked the best so far, but there's always room for improvement.

First step is to get an optimal fine-tuned configuration for Big Sur (most likely using MBP15,2), and then I'll work on 16,3 after that.

 

[wanghuangjie]

voltageshift working for me under bigsur. you need to recompile using latest version of xcode.

thanks ,
voltageshift works now.

 

[wanghuangjie]

i am confused,
seems like no matter what pl1 pl2 value i set, it doesn't work.

 

[jkbuha]

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i am confused,
seems like no matter what pl1 pl2 value i set, it doesn't work.

That's because you need to unlock tdp from the bios first. I don't have the settings to hand at the moment but will write up a guide once I get the settings finalized

 

[Mrgeque]

Not sure I understand the acidanthera bit. Could you explain exactly what you want to achieve here?

I figured out why my bios was saying Acidanthera and NOT Dell inc. Simply go into config.plist and set SpoofVendor to "false"

 

[Mrgeque]

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i am confused,
seems like no matter what pl1 pl2 value i set, it doesn't work.

looking at the output from voltageshift in your photo, seems you also set the max Multiplier to 4000Mhz on all cores, that could possibly be cause of hot cpu. Also the power limits say 30w, 50w, I don't think this chip is supposed to have that much power. don't quote me on any of this because I really don't know

 

[jkbuha]

looking at the output from voltageshift in your photo, seems you also set the max Multiplier to 4000Mhz on all cores, that could possibly be cause of hot cpu. Also the power limits say 30w, 50w, I don't think this chip is supposed to have that much power. don't quote me on any of this because I really don't know

Max multiplier (from 37x to 40x) is a UEFI tweak that can work depending on the cooling strategy. Improper cooling and the performance drops more than the 37x setting.

the 8550U is a 15W TDP chip, but again with better cooling you can increase the ceiling to get better performance. I've found 22W for my setup is around the peak performance mark, but haven't revisited this in a while.

 

[Mrgeque]

Max multiplier (from 37x to 40x) is a UEFI tweak that can work depending on the cooling strategy. Improper cooling and the performance drops more than the 37x setting.

the 8550U is a 15W TDP chip, but again with better cooling you can increase the ceiling to get better performance. I've found 22W for my setup is around the peak performance mark, but haven't revisited this in a while.

bit off topic, but your scores in linux look promising, can the dgpu work in linux?