OK Microsoft, it's time to get started with Visual Studio ARM support.
We need to be able to run it properly in a Windows ARM VM on the M1 chips!
Apple M1 Ultra
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Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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I wouldn't assume heat is solved as it's been Apples weak point in the past. The cube would crack, g5 iMac's would melt capacitors, MacBooks would burn users' laps.
Two thirds of the volume seems to be dedicated to cooling. Assuming they’re not complete idiots, they must be doing something!
> Assuming they’re not complete idiots
https://www.theverge.com/22967776/apple-magic-mouse-charging...
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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3090 is literally the easiest card to get at RRP, at least here in UK. Set up discord alerts, the FE cards stay in stock for hours, the last one in February was in stock for the entire day so anyone who wanted to buy one at RRP(£1399) could do so without any issue at all.
its still 2400 EUR in Germany for example.
I'm not sure who sells the FE cards in Germany actually. I know it's LDLC in Netherlands, France and Spain.
edit: just found out - it's NBB:
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/
There's probably a German discord somewhere to have alert for drops.
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
#764was surprised to learn that the CPUs and GPUs on the M1x chips are essentially a single unit, and for the M1 Ultra they basically slapped two M1’s together. in traditional PC building, the CPU is quite distinct from the GPU. can anyone ELI5 what the benefits are to having the CPU closely integrated with GPU like the M1 has? seems a bit unwieldy but i dont know anything about computer architecture
Every single consumer Intel processor has had a GPU on it for a decade.
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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Their GPU claims weren’t accurate though. The M1 max doesn’t have real world performance anything like the 3070 as claimed.
On raw Metal performance, yes it does get the same performance. The benchmarks showed this. The problem was the implication that you'd get 3070 gaming performance. That was never going to be true because of the un-optimisation tax for games on Mac. There doesn't exist a AAA game built for Metal and the Mac. The closest are games like World of Warcraft, Divinity Original Sin 2 – and even they are just "good ports" not…
I know that Baldur’s Gate 3 looks pretty frigging awesome on my mbp-max, and it has a native arm binary, so no need for Rosetta and uses Metal2.
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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Zen 4 will being using a new socket, I wouldn’t go buying a Zen 3 with plans to upgrade the CPU down the road.
This is already known for a long time already. You would have to actively choose to not listen to AMD news to not know.
I understand just making sure no one jumps on Zen 3 now with a promise of forwards compatibility.
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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It's bad for competition that only Apple gets to use TSMC's 5nm process. Though what's really bad is that Intel and Samsung haven't been able to compete with TSMC.
AMD will be on TSMC N5P next year, which will give them node parity with Apple (who will be releasing A15 on N5P this year), and actually a small node lead over the current N5-based A14 products. So we will get to test the "it's all just node lead guys, nothing wrong with x86!!!" theory. Don't worry though there will still be room to move the goalposts with "uhhh, but, Apple is designing for high IPC and low clocks,…
why so smug? who cares whichever company makes a better processor?
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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Why do you think of Altera as non-personal chips?
Not Altera, Ampere Altra. This: https://amperecomputing.com/processors/ampere-altra/ If the purchase page says to "contact sales" and doesn't list a price then it is not for consumers.
Click where to buy tab, then there is a list of distributors. Including ones which sell workstation versions with a configurator and pricing. https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altra-64bit-arm-workstati...
Re: Apple M1 Ultra
#769Re: Apple M1 Ultra
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That's pretty much the speed that Samsung advertises for the 980 Pro: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-st... And what WD advertises for the Black SN850: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-b... And what Seagate advertises for the FireCuda 530: https://www.seagate.com/products/gaming-drives/pc-gaming/fir... And what Gigabyte advertises for the Gen4 7000s: https://www.gig…
I checked the first two and it’s 7,000 read / 5,000 write. Pretty sure Apple said read AND write, which would be a lot faster than those. I might go back and rewatch the keynote, but I still thinking we are arguing pointlessly as Apple has always overcharged for SSD and RAM upgrades vs the price you’d pay elsewhere. Thanks for the DV though even when what I stated was right! ;)
It achieves this speed by not insisting on flushing to disk when requested: https://nitter.net/marcan42/status/1494213855387734019
When configured to ensure data integrity in the case of power loss (more important in this new M1 Studio machine unless it comes with integrated battery), then it's a lot worse.