M3 Max looks like the top tier GPU is a 40 series rival am I missing something?
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Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
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#22Base 14" M3 MBP comes with 8 GB RAM at $1599 USD. That's pretty stingy.
It also supports exactly 1 external display.
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#23I purchased a fully maxed out M2 Max MacBook Pro when it was announced like 6 months ago. I knew it was going to be outdated eventually, but within 6 months, wow. Did not expect that.
i mean, if the machine does the job you purchased it for, is it really outdated? Unless the job it is doing is to be the best and latest, as a status symbol...
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#24I don't understand why they don't update the entire lineup whenever a new chip comes out, especially if really only swapping the chip in the macbook pro and imac here. On a separate note does anyone have any insight on how unified memory compares to vram in the context of machine learning performance? Considering an H100 with 80GB costs like $30k a maxed out macbook pro with 128gb unified memory for $5k is interestin…
They just updated their macbook air and mac studios and mac pros like 6 months ago? If they updated right now, the previous owners would feel utterly screwed over.
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#25How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?
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#26What's with the 36 GB option? The other memory configs (16 GB, 64 GB) are still clean powers of two. Size suggests that they're using ECC-capable memory but using the extra width intended to support ECC for data... but why would this only apply to a single size? Part availability?
EDIT: Digging this a bit, it's not (one or more) 72-bit wide busses with 2^32 words as I'd expect as a gray-beard, it's (probably) six 32-bit wide busses with 6 GiB per bus; and this use of 1.5 * 2^N deep memories has become relatively common with the use of IC stacking, with 12 power-of-two sized ICs stacked in a single package (instead of the more "comfortable" 8 high or 16 high stacks of the same ICs giving powers of two).
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#27I'd prefer if there'd be higher RAM limits for each variant: * ~~Ultra~~ Max probably has an adequate limit with "up to" 128GB * Pro would be nicer to have "up to" (say) 64GB, rather than 'only' 36GB * Base perhaps "up to" 32GB, rather than 24GB There are some situations (running a VM or three with different OS(es)) where there really isn't a substitute for more bits.
Max is the one with the 128GB limit. We'll see what the limit is for the M3 Ultra, possibly 256GB.
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#28This is cool, where can I buy the chips and read their datasheets?
"unveil" !== "give you datasheets and provide components"
e.g. https://www.space.com/spacex-drone-ship-a-shortfall-of-gravi...
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#29OK they got me, time to upgrade off my i9 MacBook Pro.
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#30M3 Max looks like the top tier GPU is a 40 series rival am I missing something?
It's not a 40 series rival without CUDA. Probably great at inference though.