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Re: Apple M1 Ultra

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Post by nintendo1889 »

drcongo wrote: post #75
aaomidi wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> having to use abstraction layers to run most of the software world indirectly Nearly everything I use daily is built for M1 now. https://isapplesiliconready.com/ And honestly, if it's not, its a good indication that it's time to move away from that product as they don't care about a huge segment of their users.

Dropbox and Signal are the only two I ever use, and yeah, the lack of interest in porting to M1 from both of those companies is increasing my lack of interest in their apps.

That page says that both of those apps are supported.

Re: Apple M1 Ultra

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

kasperni wrote: post #72
cube2222 wrote: post #4

Looks like all the people saying "just start fusing those M1 CPU's into bigger ones" were right, that's basically what they did here (fused two M1 Max'es together). And since the presenter mentioned the Mac Pro would come on another day, I wonder if they'll just do 4x M1 Max for that.

> I wonder if they'll just do 4x M1 Max for that. Unlikely, M1 Ultra is the last chip in the M1 family according to Apple [1]. "M1 Ultra completes the M1 family as the world’s most powerful and capable chip for a personal computer.”" [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-unveils-m1-ultr...

What is M2 really going to be difference wise?

Re: Apple M1 Ultra

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Post by Macha »

Omniusaspirer wrote: post #22
renewiltord wrote: post #3

Haha, bloody hell, what a monster of a chip. I find my M1 Max already remarkably fast. The change is so huge. It's like in the old days when you'd get a new computer and it felt like it could do things before you could think of doing them. But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia? That's nuts.

Based on Anandtech benchmarks the M1 Max GPU is basically on par with a mobile 3080, which a quick search tells me is about 60% as fast as a desktop 3080. Not unreasonable to believe 2 of them combined will outperform a 3090- with nearly 128 GB of VRAM to boot. Even more incredible Anandtech reports the M1 max GPU block maxing at 43W in their testing. So a 90W GPU in the M1 Ultra is trading blows with a 350+ watt 309…

GPU scaling is absolutely not linear in that way. nvidia gave up on that in recent generations as without software support to match, you had situations where double 1080s were 95% as fast as one 1080 with worse frame times.

Might be nice for e.g. ML where you can effectively treat them as entirely independent GPUs but for games I would be surprised if this matches a high end GPU.

Re: Apple M1 Ultra

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Post by xsmasher »

bkyiuuMbF wrote: post #19
renewiltord wrote: post #3

Haha, bloody hell, what a monster of a chip. I find my M1 Max already remarkably fast. The change is so huge. It's like in the old days when you'd get a new computer and it felt like it could do things before you could think of doing them. But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia? That's nuts.

> But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia? Dubious. https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-m1-max-nvidia-rtx-3080-perform...

Just for clarity, that article is about the M1 Pro and the M1 Max chips from October.

Re: Apple M1 Ultra

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Post by tediousdemise »

How does Apple manage to blow every other computing OEM out of the water? What's in the secret sauce of their company?

Is it great leadership? Top tier engineering talent? Lots of money? I simply don't understand.

Re: Apple M1 Ultra

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Post by [deleted] »

Thaxll wrote: post #27
renewiltord wrote: post #3

Haha, bloody hell, what a monster of a chip. I find my M1 Max already remarkably fast. The change is so huge. It's like in the old days when you'd get a new computer and it felt like it could do things before you could think of doing them. But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia? That's nuts.

> But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia? That's nuts. People that game on Mac know it's a lie, GPU for gaming on mac is vastly slower than recent graphic cards.

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