People should stop comparing Apple Silicon to Intel and start comparing it to AMD.
Considering that Apple ditched Intel for their own Apple Silicon chips it makes more sense comparing them (for now).
MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
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Re: MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
#22Obviously fake. The CPU Monkey "benchmarks" are just the M1 values multiplied.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
64GB is available on the current-gen 64GB, so not offering it would be a step backwards.
64GB was available on the previous Mac Mini, but they took a step backwards and capped the new one at 16GB, no reason they won't do the same with the MBP.
The Intel Mac Mini is still sold. If you need, you can get it with 64GB of RAM and 2TB of PCIe SSD.
Granted you'll feel bad if this leak is wrong and Apple shows an M1x with more than 16GB of RAM.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other thing is RAM. Apple still has delusions of gimping it's buyers into 16/32GB for "Pro" level machines. I'd probably buy a 16" MBP with this chip if I could get it with socketed 64/128GB. But Apple's going to solder it to the board and charge a premium even if they did.
I'd add that they also appear to lack EEC support.
I wonder if the shorter bus won't somehow reduce the error rates.
Re: MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
#25People should stop comparing Apple Silicon to Intel and start comparing it to AMD.
It'd look less bad for AMD, but still wouldn't look brilliant.
aarch64 allows some tricks that are much harder to pull off on amd64.
Re: MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
#26Doesn't say a lot. It's mostly speculation, the chip is listed here [1]. Notable info: Still at 5nm; double the GPU cores. Reports up to 3 displays, so it's safe to assume 2+1 external/internal. 8 High perf cores and 4 little perf cores. PCIE gen 4, no idea about number of lanes. [1] https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1x-1898
The other thing is RAM. Apple still has delusions of gimping it's buyers into 16/32GB for "Pro" level machines. I'd probably buy a 16" MBP with this chip if I could get it with socketed 64/128GB. But Apple's going to solder it to the board and charge a premium even if they did.
Rules change. I've got one of the 16GB RAM Macbook Pros. They've got it acting like it's L2 cache instead of RAM as we know it, so the place where you need more than 128G becomes, well, the SSD, your mass storage.
These things already don't act as if it's RAM as we're used to considering it. They could probably have shipped the first ones with 4G RAM and had 'em act relatively normal… with heavy stuff like 4K video editing. Not great, but normal. So they did 8G RAM to have 'em act more impressive… like doing said editing smoother with fewer dropped frames than far more powerful Intel machines with a lot more RAM.
Re: MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
#27People should stop comparing Apple Silicon to Intel and start comparing it to AMD.
There is no Macbook with AMD processor, I think that's why it is compared to Intel, that plus Intel being the historic leader
Re: MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
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(I don’t really know what I’m talking about) I just hope it isn’t internal + Touch Bar + 1 external
Unlikely, the M1 page [0] says "2 displays" and I'm pretty sure the MBP supports internal display + Touchbar + external display. And even that is based on high-res displays, I think it could support more external displays at FHD [1]. [0]: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1-1804 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqINozYxDK8
I wonder if their new GPU somehow is limited on display support (and they basically have to "add cores" to get more displays).
My current 16" MBP has no problem driving a total of five displays and 16,041,600 pixels - and I'd be hard pressed to go back to just two external displays.
Re: MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
#29Intel should be scared of its own failures. Apple is merely a competitor that didn't fall asleep.
Also Apple didn't have to do ~80% of what Intel has to do - you know, the actual building of chip fabs as well as chip design.
"merely" LOL.
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The other thing is RAM. Apple still has delusions of gimping it's buyers into 16/32GB for "Pro" level machines. I'd probably buy a 16" MBP with this chip if I could get it with socketed 64/128GB. But Apple's going to solder it to the board and charge a premium even if they did.
Yeah it's really annoying that 8/256 is the base still. It's been like that for years - I think that's been the same since around 2016. Would be much better if the base model was 16/512, but that's $500 of nearly pure profit apple would lose.
It's just annoying that the others are BTO - you can't just pick up a replacement.
I was expecting to for over 3.5k for my new laptop. It was half for the 16gb/1tb