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Why not just use Activity Monitor
Vitals.app has a great feature that you don't see in Activity Monitor.
…what is it?
Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
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You paid for that capacity to be able to use it?
I pay so that I only fill up to 50% usually
This requires you either being very good at predicting your storage needs, your storage not growing over time (no growing photo collection?), and being aware how flash wear affects SSDs and how wear levelling works.
If you fail at these, you can even trash your SSD and need replacing the whole laptop due to it being soldered in.
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> if Apple suddenly took gaming seriously, like extending Rosetta to act as a translation layer for Windows games a la Proton Apple already provides the translation layer to convert from DirectX 11 or 12 to Metal that Wine uses on Macs. https://wccftech.com/apple-game-porting-toolkit-2-supports-a... Proton does the exact same thing, only it translates DirectX into the Graphics API that Wine on Linux uses. The new thi…
> Apple already provides the translation layer to convert from DirectX 11 or 12 to Metal that Wine uses on Macs. To registered developers, with no upstream or downstream support whatsoever. > Proton does the exact same thing For everyone, with upstream and downstream vendoring. It's quite exciting to have two competing standards like this, it really makes you wonder which one developers will side with.
> To registered developers, with no upstream or downstream support whatsoever.
It's open source, you don't have to be registered with anything.
Wine already uses it.
Buy the commercial version of Wine for Mac, and you get end user support.
> It's quite exciting to have two competing standards like this,
Wine is the single open standard here.
> Being a fork of Wine, Proton maintains very similar compatibility with Windows applications as its upstream counterpart... Proton generally lags behind its upstream Wine base by several releases.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
Apple and Valve are just providing layers that translate graphics API calls from the Windows standard DirectX API to Metal on Mac or Vulkan on Linux that Wine can use to support games on those platforms.
However, Proton lags behind on features available in the newer versions of upstream Wine.
Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
#554Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple already provides the translation layer to convert from DirectX 11 or 12 to Metal that Wine uses on Macs. To registered developers, with no upstream or downstream support whatsoever. > Proton does the exact same thing For everyone, with upstream and downstream vendoring. It's quite exciting to have two competing standards like this, it really makes you wonder which one developers will side with.
> To registered developers, with no upstream or downstream support whatsoever. It's open source, you don't have to be registered with anything. Wine already uses it. Buy the commercial version of Wine for Mac, and you get end user support. > It's quite exciting to have two competing standards like this, Wine is the single open standard here. > Being a fork of Wine, Proton maintains very similar compatibility with Win…
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Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
#556I bought an M4 iPad Pro and ended up returning it because I just don't like the magic keyboard. My current iPad is from 2018 and I use the Smart Keyboard Folio and (for me) it's just about perfect. Small, lightweight, not too expensive, easy to clean, and works great. I've been hoping there were enough people like me that a third party would make a replacement but that never happened. I know my current iPad Pro won't…
Yes! The Smart Keyboard Folio was nearly perfect.
Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
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The multi-core score listed in the main results page for EPYC 9534 is 15433, but if you look at the individual results, the ones that aren't VMs with fewer than all the cores typically get a multi-core score in the 20k-25k range, e.g.: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6807094 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9507365 The ones on actual hardware with lower scores typically have comments like "Core Performance B…
No one is using Geekbench 6 for Epyc evaluation. It’s a consumer benchmark.
What does that have to do with the scores being wrong? As mentioned, virtual machines can claim to be consumer CPUs too, while running on hardware with slower cores than the ones in the claimed CPU.
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I wish we could get something other than Geekbench for these things, since Geekbench seems to be trash. For example, it has the Ryzen 7 7700X with a higher multi-core score than the Epyc 9534 even though they're both Zen4 and the latter has 8 times as many cores and is significantly faster on threaded workloads in real life.
Any benchmark useful to cross compare single user desktop/laptop experience is going to be useless in the datacentre; and vice versa.
That doesn't make any sense. Many of the applications are identical, e.g. developer workstations and CI servers are both compiling code, video editing workstations and render farms are both processing video. A lot of the hardware is all but indistinguishable; Epyc and Threadripper have similar core counts and even use the same core complexes.
The only real distinction is between high end systems and low end systems, but that's exactly what a benchmark should be able to usefully compare because people want to know what a higher price tag would buy them.
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GP mentions cores and the article is about benchmarks. The relationship between transistor count, core count, and performance, is exactly on topic.
Single core performance and transistor count are not the same thing and have been disconnected for two decades.
Did you think I said otherwise?
Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
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Single core performance and transistor count are not the same thing and have been disconnected for two decades.
Did you think I said otherwise?
Moore's law was about transistors and cost, you were equating it to performance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434910
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