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Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Where is the graphics test? The M1 Max versus an NVIDIA 3080 or similar?

Seems kind of unfair with the NVIDIA using up to 320W of power and having nearly twice the memory bandwidth. But if it runs even half as well as a 3080, that would represent amazing performance per Watt.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Single core regular M1 Macbook about the same. Multicore the Max is a lot higher.

Looks not the same to me: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508124?baseli... Did I pick the wrong regular M1 Macbook? Edit: Hmm. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508059?baseli... I guess Geekbench is a little unpredictable? And it looks like HN is pushing their capacity...

Hmm not sure what I was looking at before, that site is not the easiest to navigate.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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post #41

Where is the graphics test? The M1 Max versus an NVIDIA 3080 or similar?

Seems kind of unfair with the NVIDIA using up to 320W of power and having nearly twice the memory bandwidth. But if it runs even half as well as a 3080, that would represent amazing performance per Watt.

Apple invited the comparison during their keynote. ;)

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Pretty impressive, all things considered. Looks like it's roughly on par with an AMD 5800X, which is a Desktop CPU with 8C/16T and a 105W TDP.

Impressive but unbelievably expensive considering what will actually be run on it. I kind of want one, but the 5800x for example is about 10x less expensive than a specced out MacBook Pro

Are you comparing the price of a chip to a laptop??

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Wow does much better than Geekbench's prior top processor ( https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks ) the Intel Core i9-11900K ( https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-11900... ). 10,997 for Intel i9 vs 12,693 for M1 Max

The single core is second to Intel's best but the multicore is well below in the scale, comparable to Intel Xeon W-2191B or Intel Core i9-10920X, which are 18 and 12 core beasts with TDP of up to 165W.

Which means, at least for Geekbench, Apple M1 Max has a power comparable to a very powerful desktop workstation. But if you need the absolute best of the best on multicore you can get double the performance with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X at 280W TDP!

Can you imagine if Apple released some beast with similar TDP? 300W Apple M1 Unleashed, the trashcan design re-imagined, with 10X power of M1 Max if can preserve similar performance per watt. That would be 5X over the best of the best.

If Apple made an iMac Pro with similar TDP to the Intel one, and keeps the performance per watt, that would mean multicore score of about 60K, which is twice of the best processor there is in the X86 World.

I suspect, these scores don't tell the full story since the Apple SoC has specialised units for processing certain kind of data and they have direct access to the data in the memory and as a result it could be unmatched by anything but at the same time it can be comically slow for some other type of processes where X86 shines.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Single core regular M1 Macbook about the same. Multicore the Max is a lot higher.

Looks not the same to me: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508124?baseli... Did I pick the wrong regular M1 Macbook? Edit: Hmm. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508059?baseli... I guess Geekbench is a little unpredictable? And it looks like HN is pushing their capacity...

Geekbench has always been a little unpredictable. It was most famously skewed quite heavily in Apple's favor before Geekbench 4, and even the modern scores are pretty opaque. I'd wait to see real-world performance metrics out of it.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks not the same to me: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508124?baseli... Did I pick the wrong regular M1 Macbook? Edit: Hmm. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508059?baseli... I guess Geekbench is a little unpredictable? And it looks like HN is pushing their capacity...

Hmm not sure what I was looking at before, that site is not the easiest to navigate.

My second link shows what you're talking about. I'm not sure which result to trust.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Impressive but unbelievably expensive considering what will actually be run on it. I kind of want one, but the 5800x for example is about 10x less expensive than a specced out MacBook Pro

Are you comparing the price of a chip to a laptop??

Yes. If I bought one of these it would never actually move so I don't actually mind the comparison all that much for my personal use case, obviously it isn't apples to oranges but my point is that this performance is not free.
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