New MacBook Pro officially supports 5K-resolution displays with 5120 x 2880 pixels

The new 15-inch MacBook Pro supports 4K-resolution monitor 4096 × 2160 pixels at 60 Hz, shows an updated document on our support website Apple. The laptop is the first in a line of Apple, which can also connect displays with a resolution of 5K.

The updated 15-inch MacBook Pro is now equipped with a flash memory with the increased to 2.5 times the speed of an hour and offers longer battery life. Discrete graphics give 80-percent increase in speed using the GPU AMD Radeon R9 M370X for video editing in Final Cut Pro X, or in the rendering of high definition gaming. 13-inch model, released earlier this year, equipped with Intel Iris 6100 graphics.

According to the technical documentation, the owners of the 15-inch MacBook Pro can use two interfaces Thunderbolt 2 to output images to 5K-displays. For the first time the possibility of their use with the Mac became known in April, with the release of software update OS X 10.10.3. The new "Proshka" Apple was the first laptop with official support displays with a resolution of 5120 x 2880 pixels. Currently listed on the compatibility list only model - 27-inch Dell UP2715K.

The announcement of the updated 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display was held last week. Laptops have new trackpads Force Touch, ultra-fast flash memory and battery with a longer battery life. Previously, experts have found that the performance of the notebook is the graphics subsystem-level model three years ago.