Sierra 10.13.1 — Macos High

On a 2017 15-inch MacBook Pro (Radeon Pro 560), updating from 10.13.0 to 10.13.1 improved the Metal benchmark by 12% (from 22 FPS to 24.6 FPS). Apple’s graphics team had clearly tweaked the scheduler.

This update fixed , including:

If you still run a mechanical hard drive on High Sierra today, updating to 10.13.1 is mandatory . The 10.13.0 release caused severe kernel panics on older iMacs due to APFS defragmentation loops. 10.13.1 silenced those crashes. macos high sierra 10.13.1