strawbale

I've seen two such confirmations on the MacRumors Mac Mini forum

I know, but they are virtually identical, especially when compared to (those) 8GB cards

Thanks, but no it doesn't help...

Any news yet whether the Mac Mini's UHD 630 iGPU supports 10-bit color? (like the iris plus 540/550/640/650/655 in the 2016/17/18 MBP 13" on external monitors)

+1: MBP 2007 with 256MB VRAM) and looking forward to smooth 4k@60Hz with the UHD 630. But that was not bmoag's concern - hence my response.

Why c/wouldn't a i7 mac mini + eGPU (e.g. Vega 64) be an option? single & multicore benchmarks better tha i9 MBP15": https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks

Adobe supports metal in 2019 and is faster with it: https://theblog.adobe.com/important-information-on-gpu-acceleration-with-cuda-and-apple-metal/

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2018-NVIDIA-GeForce-vs-AMD-Radeon-Vega-1197/ (with Intel HD 630 in the left-hand column)

Or a mac mini with an eGPU? The i7-8700 is pretty powerful and the advantage of the eGPU is that you can replace 'just' the videocard with a more powerful one when you need to.

100% Only newer generation cpu's will start to tackle some of it: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13301/spectre-and-meltdown-in-hardware-intel-clarifies-whiskey-lake-and-amber-lake

Maybe wait for 2019: 8th or 9th gen iMacs or the new Mac Pro?

regular 8700 also 100 celsius: https://ark.intel.com/products/126686/Intel-Core-i7-8700-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4-60-GHz-

https://ark.intel.com/products/134905/Intel-Core-i7-8700B-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4-60-GHz-

+1 Unless testing shows the i7 will throttle quite a bit under heavy loads, compared to the non-HT 6-core i5, in which case I'd prefer that one.

Your link refers to a HD 630 (used in Windows), but the 'correct answer' in that thread refers to a generic Intel doc (on deep color space). That doc doesn't explain why Intel's Iris (plus) ...

You seem to live in the wrong forum (Windows PC): MacBook Pros 13" (2016/17/18 models) using the forementioned Iris (Plus) 540/550/640/655/655 integrated GPUs ALL support 1o-bit color support on ...

Why/how is this different from Intel's Iris (Plus) 540/550/640/650/655 integrated GPUs in de MBP 13" (2016/17/18)? (that DO support 10 bit  color, see Apple's specs)

2x increased airflow will surely be needed as the 2014 models used 28W TDP processors (vs 65W now).

So the potential is there, but I don't think these same 8th gen processors (with UHD 630) support 10-bit color on a Windows PC, no? So the/my question would be whether Apple used that potential, ...

Intel's Iris plus 640 and 655 iGPUs (on the MBP 13") support 10-bit too, so I'm hopeful (but not sure) that the UHD630 in this Mac Mini (but not in Windows PCs) will also support 10-bit color.