So we will be stuck with a useless GPU
As long as Apple ignores the gaming industry, they will not invest in a GPU like RTX series.
The faster the chip, the less time it is working, thus saving power.
My 13 Pro Max did on day 1 and while restoring my XS Max backup (this past Friday) been pushing the phone fairly hard (games and other intensive tasks) and even in a case it’s been cool. I’ve heard others say it gets really warm.
Yes and no. While not as seamlessly portable as a Java program, a powerful app developed for iOS/iPadOS can also run on macOS. I don’t even mean Catalyst or the run-iOS-apps-on-M1-Mac gimmick. The core code base can be the same across platforms with the interface customized for the target platform. Lightroom is a good example - the iOS/iPad version shares much of its code base with the desktop non-Classic version.
If I remember correctly Apple also significantly understated the performance gains of the A14 when they did discuss it (relative to the A12 in the prior generation iPad Air).
The M1 GPU uses tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR) whereas most mainstream PC GPUs use immediate mode rendering (IMR). The two rendering modes are fundamentally incompatbile, which is likely why eGPU support is not an option on M1 Macs even though the Mac can “see” the GPU.
Nono of course I’m happy with apples GPU power in their slim laptops. I would love perhaps 50% more GPU power and dedicated Ray tracing( this is the future after al) for better light rendering. Perhaps the equivalent of a GTX 1060 in a MacBook Air( apple GpU
For things like compute and rasterization I think Apple will catch up. They haven’t started ML AA/SS or hardware RT, so that remains to be seen on how well they can compete there.
So far so good on all. I did a mini review of sorts in the iPad forum, and I am more than pleased with the capabilities this device has out in the field for my workflow. Since then, I have learned to enjoy using it for basic media consumption and some of the more graphic intensive ios games. The ”jelly” issue just isn’t something that impacts my photo or video editing. I do see it (when swiping through photos), however the m1 MacBook Pro does it even more and still doesn’t bother me. It doesn’t impact my video editing one bit.
Interesting point. It got me to thinking that consumer and pro chips are likely optimized to maximize efficiency at different points in the load curve. For instance, chips used in computer clusters do indeed spend most of their time running at 100% (assuming the cluster is heavily used, which has been the case for every cluster I've ever used). They should thus be optimized to maximize their efficiency at maximum load, while chips made for consumer devices could give up some efficiency at max load in order to optimize it at average load.
I recall reading a big reason the digital assistants from Google, Amazon, etc. had outpaced Siri was because weak internal user privacy protections among the former enabled them to make extensive use of user data, giving them far larger training sets. By constrast, Apple's privacy guidelines disallowed that.
The best type of obsolescence is when a vendor improves a product by so much, you're compelled to upgrade. I'm hoping we get a decade of Apple Silicon advancements that fit this category.
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