Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
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Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#250% slower than the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering that consumes massively more wattage is hardly a damning statement.
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#350% slower than the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering that consumes massively more wattage is hardly a damning statement.
The complete lack of any power numbers is extremely telling.
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#450% slower than the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering that consumes massively more wattage is hardly a damning statement.
The absolute "best of class" Nvidia card is currently the 4090, which can be up to 30% faster than the 4080 in scaling workloads.
What would be more interesting is to see how Nvidia's laptop cards fare here though - they're constrained to much lower wattage (80-120w) and would make for a much fairer fight against the ~200w M2 Ultra.
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#5Ahhaha, Intel's TDP is 2-4 times bigger under full load (and I guess ~10-15x under moderate load) while having negligible perf advantage over M2. The author can not be serious.
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#6This and the introduction of the new slower less expandable - at least with respect to GPUs and memory - is indicative that it was a mistake for Apple to completely transition to ARM and should have kept high end options on Intel until they had a better GPU story to tell.
They already had the Mac Studio, they could have kept the Mac Pro on Intel.
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#750% slower than the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering that consumes massively more wattage is hardly a damning statement.
granted, wccftech is a grain of salt kind of site. To wit, here's another article....from the same site!
https://wccftech.com/m2-ultra-only-10-percent-slower-than-rt...
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#8Queue the "But power consumption..." as though it makes fuckall difference on a workstation.
Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#950% slower than the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering that consumes massively more wattage is hardly a damning statement.
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Re: Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
#1050% slower than the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering that consumes massively more wattage is hardly a damning statement.
> that consumes massively more wattage
power consumption doesn't scale linearly with performances
the absolute best of class NVIDIA discrete GPU offering could possibly outperform the Apple GPU at the same power level
Or, to put it in another way, to recover that remaining 50% of performances (2x) the increase in power consumption would be exponential (a lot more than 2x, like 10x)