macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

I still have the issue running 10.13.3 Beta 2 on my Mid 2015 MBP, AMD Radeon R9 M370X. With all the talk about iPhone speed throttling and older batteries it makes me wonder if some of that is creeping into High Sierra...

Just a quick update from my side on this topic... after downgrading to Sierra I have a wonderful uptime of 13 days without any reboots and used the MacBook every day, opening/closing the lid all the time and GPU performance is still a charm. So surely it must be an issue with High Sierra, right Apple? Let's see what my support contact is saying to that after he comes back from his vacation.

Oh and EDIT to describe my workload: I am using GPU intensive tasks like rendering stuff with Blender or doing stuff with Photoshop every day. Games work fine, too.

A little early to say for sure, but High Sierra 10.13.3 Public Beta 3 seems to solve the slow graphics issue. (2016 MBP, Radeon Pro 460).

I used Unigine Heaven and Deus Ex Mankind Divided after 3 sleep/wake cycles and performance was exactly as expected. Hopefully it stays that way!

I can confirm that this is NOT fixed in Beta 10.13.3.....

Tested with X-Plane 11, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom after long hibernates. Only reboot resolves the issue temporary

Come on Apple, talk about the issue and don't left the users alone. Same as your BatteryPerformanceGate.......

Aloha from Honolulu Hawaii per this thread I unchecked the put hard drive to sleep when possible and have not had any slow downs at all both plugged in and in battery I get 70 to 100 FPS while playing WOW where as before I’d get 17 to 26 FPS after waking up the MacBook Pro from sleep. I have a 2017 15” MBP Touch Bar AMD 560 4gigs GDDR5.

Hi #seonguki,

how is it going now? Still no issues?

Are you putting your laptop to sleep with Radeon engaged, for example if you have WOW still running it will be engaged, in this case any version of High Sierra would work.

The machine needs to sleep with Integrated graphics. In this case I find about half the time it wakes up in a slow mood the other half it'll be fast. ...

# Oso Grande - I have not applied the 10.13.2 Supplemental Update, actually I'm still on 10.13.1, my system info looks exactly like yours.

Aloha I’m still having issues sometimes not all I’d say 50/50 in another note I’m getting an anonymous UUID Panic attack while playing WOW had my logic board replaced on the 2nd and last night happened again seems to be an issue Battle.net app I launched WOW not through Battle.net app and have had no Panic attacks also ran a GPU test called Heaven for 29 minuets on Ultra settings and no restarts just putting it out there just Incase anyone else is having issues Mahalo.

Yes, it seems the supplemental 10.13.2 update for some reason includes new graphics drivers for more or less all supported graphics cards (the ones from the upcoming 10.13.3 update perhaps? I don't know). Maybe it will solve this slow graphics after sleep problem some are seeing? I don't know that either, but give it a go! 🙂

Until the release version of macOS 10.13.2 (17C88), I experienced Radeon Pro 460 graphics performance issues after a long time sleep.

After installing macOS 10.13.3 beta 3 (17D29a), the issues is not occurring until now.

star-affinity i don't know were you have this info, but the update contains no new driver or firmware for the graphics interface. The issue still persists, after some hibernates. I analyzed the content of this update, no graphics......... Please do not give any fake infos about graphics updates

tributepower

I don't deliberately give ”fake infos”. If I have done a mistake I will correct my post.

Edit:

I would update it if I could… Seems the tmee window for editing a post is rather short. 😟

Anyway, I will try to verify that about new graphics drivers in the 10.13.2 Supplemental Update. It's something that I was informed about, but didn't actually verify myself (therefore I wrote ”it seems” in my initial post).

Sorry, I made a mistake there. Seems there are no updated graphics drivers in the 10.13.2 Supplemental Update. If you go to ”Extensions” there under ”Software" in System Information you can list the Extensions by ”Last Modified” and it seems AMD graphics extensions hasn't been touched since September.

For what it's worth, I haven't experienced the graphics slow down at all in the past two weeks--I'm using a mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro 15" Iris Pro only (2.2GHz) and have installed all Apple supported updates the day they've come out.

I can't say that this is what's causing the slowdown, but I have made one change to my workflow that lines up with the timeline of stopped slowdowns..

I no longer use Safari -- I've switched to Firefox (57) full time-- and as a result, I've turned off iCloud sync of safari data --

Again, I'm not attempting to point the finger at Safari or iCloud to blame these slow downs..but in my workflow at least, it's the ONLY change I've made; and since making the switch to Firefox (as in NOT using or even opening safari since the switch at all) I haven't experienced the slowdown at all--and HAVE NOT rebooted once since the switch.