I've seen in Linus episodes that even gamers are serious thinking going to others fr GPU because of drawing to much power lately! If the GPUs could figure out using ARM to power the GPUs they might get a leg up!
Power is an issue yes. I play games on my Mac whenever possible even though I have a 3080 Ti gaming computer. I also had to “ban” that gaming computer a few times over the summer when it was too hot out and my AC PLUS portable AC couldn’t keep up when the PC was OFF! I didn’t want to add on to the heat issues.I've seen in Linus episodes that even gamers are serious thinking going to others fr GPU because of drawing to much power lately! If the GPUs could figure out using ARM to power the GPUs they might get a leg up!
AMD's New 4nm 7940HS vs M1 & M2 Pro
When you finished watching the video what did you think?I sure hope you were being sarcastic! this seems like they shooting at Apple instead of Intel like they did in the past!
When you finished watching the video what did you think?
Didn't watch this video, but I did watch Su's presentation—she was comparing a 15-month-old Apple chip (M1 Pro) to an AMD chip that won't be released until Spring 2023! Plus she didn't compare the 7940HS to the M2 for SC speed (initial reports are they're about the same). And she conveniently didn't have a bar graph for relative GPU performance; surely the 7940S's integrated GPU is less powerful than the M1 Pro's (I assume MaxTech mentioned that). Finally, she used Cinebench, on which Apple Silicon has about a 10% penalty because it's not equivalently optimized for AS and x86.AMD's New 4nm 7940HS vs M1 & M2 Pro
Okay, I could not, and still cannot, make much sense of your comment. No problem though because I do not care much.I did finished it and already told you what I think!
I posed a vidoe by Max where he compared a AMD 5900HS vs. a 14" MBP and in that video the AMD kept pace with the MBP but at nearly 1/2 the price tag.this seems like they shooting at Apple instead of Intel like they did in the past!
Most consumers don't start picking laptops and comparing them based on TDPA more reasonable comparison would be the 7940HS vs. whatever Apple M2 chip has a TDP comparable
Still x86-64 not native. Certainly not optimized in any way for Apple silicon. I’d say it is a rather poor showing by Mathworks that they can’t even release a compatible version after 2 years (beta is available).Matlab, is a rather poor showing for the M2 as well.
It must have been difficult to find a good Fortran compiler for Apple Silicon.it is a rather poor showing by Mathworks that they can’t even release a compatible version after 2 years
For instance at 6:52, we see the Handbrake benchmark.
R's been using Iain Sandoe's port of GCC (gfortran) to Apple Silicon for ~2 years for native releases, Scipy's been using it since late 2021, and GNU Octave is fully native on Apple Silicon as well. I'm pretty sure the Clang Fortran compiler (flang) has been heavily revamped/improved within the past year too, though I'm not sure if it's 100% ready for prime-time use. I don't think MathWorks has a good excuse here.It must have been difficult to find a good Fortran compiler for Apple Silicon.
If I had a choice, I would prefer Julia to become the de facto language in science and engineering.Engineers can keep MATLAB if they want, but the sooner the research sciences are pushed over to Python and R the better.
Julia hasn't worked its way into my corner of research just yet (cognitive science & physiology), but I've heard good things about it from my friend in epidemiology!If I had a choice, I would prefer Julia to become the de facto language in science and engineering.
Julia has other problems. First of all, it takes longer than Python/Matlab to run code for the first time, although it has improved a lot in recent versions. And secondly, package maintenance in Julia is not as good as in Python/Matlab because the Julia community is less well funded.If it lets you define/call functions with regular named arguments (e.g. sample_rate=100), isn't deeply integrated with a proprietary IDE with a UI straight out of 2010, and uses something other than '%' for comments, it's already leagues ahead of MATLAB