Energy drainage at max 50 in activity monitor. In normal h.264, 8 bit, 1080p video, CPU usage is at max 10%. I was using VLC Media Player 2.4.4 on Mac OS Sierra. If you can try that one on windows and tell me how it goes please. I tried the 120 mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit-main10 profile video and the video does not even move on automatic graphics switching off. This is tempting me to wait for Kaby Lake model. Maybe it needs forcing program like you mentioned.

I think you might be correct here that it still tries to use the iGPU instead. Testing the video, a I also got lags even though I turn automatic graphics switching off. Yeah I got your 15' AMD 460 set up just now. Thank you very much for answering everyone!

I would want to return it if it cannot do 4K with HDCP 2.2 protection.įor people saying 'MacBook Pro 15' screen is not enough for 4K!', I meant plug the MacBook to a HDCP 2.2 compliant 4K screen.

Have anyone tried installing windows, using the Edge browser and tried Netflix 4k on the 2016 15' MacBook Pro? However, the AMD GPUs on the 15' models has HDCP 2.2 according to AMD.Īny idea if this means 15' MBPs might one day get Netflix 4k support without Kaby Lake, or will the machines never be able to because of the Skylake chips? That would make the 2016 MacBook Pro 15' be obsolete quick and not future proof for 4K. While the 2016 MacBook Pros run on Skylake, which has no HDCP 2.2. In addition to running on Windows 10 Edge browser only as well.Īll in all, it is all due to Kaby Lake having HDCP 2.2 DRM hardware inside the CPU. It is known that Netflix 4k support is on Kaby Lake processors only.

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