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M1 Ultra CPU is 60% Faster Than 28-core Mac Pro, GPU is 80% Faster Than Highest-End Radeon Pro W6900X Graphics Card
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Said like an Intel executive who knows his gig is up. ?
But it’s not even the replacement for the Mac Pro. It’s the baby brother.
he’s got a point - all of apple’s claims about the A-series and M-series chips have been proven to be wrong. The chips are always found to be even faster than apple has claimed
Don’t count them out yet. Should they see a profitable market that can increase market share without impacting profitability they will focus on it.
Epic may be on the road to waking the sleeping beast. Something they don’t want, at all. Microsoft has had some success by according to them, loosing significant amounts of money for years. Something Apple smartly is not willing to do.
Apple might be setting the stage to finally take console style gaming mainstream in away Microsoft never could.
With M1 processors deployed across their platform including monitors and iPads and I’m sure soon to be Apple TV once the M2 arrives, the game will change and their can be truly on development platform scaled to enormous performance metrics.
The next step would be for Apple to announce Arcade+ with Apple developed console level titles that leverage their ARKit technologies and support their upcoming VR headset.
Companies don’t get serious about developing for Mac until they see Apple creating a magnet the takes their potential customers out of the Windows market by selling them Macs.
pricing is a beast too.
very aggressive.
Exactlyhe’s got a point - all of apple’s claims about the A-series and M-series chips have been proven to be wrong. The chips are always found to be even faster than apple has claimed
was watching some PC chip dude on youtube. he broke down his guess for the Ultra pricing as he was watching.
He said 4K$ for ultra.
He surprised himself when he got it right.
Serious people know the value in this chip, and how much a mac pro last week would cost to get close to matching the speed.
Hint.
> $4000, much more...
Just because you're not imaginative enough to think that there are people out here who need all the power they can get... that doesn't mean we don't exist.
I regularly run my software (for simulating nuclear reactors) up to 30,000 cores on a supercomputer. We recently got a supercomputer with 100,000 cores... and I will be using _all_ of that at one time, on one run.
I can use literally _any_ amount of processing power I can get in every machine I touch. Bring on the 128 core Mac Pro!
I'd like to see Apple and the M1 in the server business. Cost/performance is incredible.
Bring back Xserve!! 😁
Bring back Xserve!! 😁
These things will definitely end up in racks in a few places.
You’re basically talking hypotheticals here. Any
nVidia 4000 series most likely will need a completely different interconnect probably PCIe 5/6 and at that point you’re most likely will have to pay for a whole new motherboard and probably a new power supply anyway basically buying another computer.
Exactly, I’d also like to add that with the current climate of acquisitions a lot of the top developers for the top and games cannot and will not be allowed at to code for Mac unless it’s their own side project terms of agreement probably restricts them from going to support Mac now
this is a true beast. I can see how X86 manufacturers are running in chaos.
X86 is so dead…
Can't imagine how Intel executives are going to make adds ridiculing this! XDDDDD
All this is is just good news as components as SSD are having a huge improving while CPU and GPU where getting stuck.
same for connectors, Thunderbolt 4 is unable to transfer 8K 60 fps which is just a bottleneck, when there are already affordable 8K TV
X86 is so dead…
Can't imagine how Intel executives are going to make adds ridiculing this! XDDDDD
All this is is just good news as components as SSD are having a huge improving while CPU and GPU where getting stuck.
same for connectors, Thunderbolt 4 is unable to transfer 8K 60 fps which is just a bottleneck, when there are already affordable 8K TV
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Ultimate would be a great name for the SoCs that go into the Mac Pro. Given that the Mac Pro is basically the ultimate Mac, why not indicate that with the SoC name?
Hopefully this holds up. As someone fond of PowerPC and other RISC architectures, x86 should have been put to rest ages ago. ARM chips are making wild promises, too.
in computing, the extra power will be ALWAYS worth soon or later, as software is as smart as hardware allows!
you can't think in HDR4 with a A10, developers always have to wait to hardware for "tricks"
So, 3D developers are eager to developer real time light simulation 8K textures with physics and voice commands, but machines cant process all the orders developers want to code, and you will want to take that advantage when it comes out. Of course, you can wait and save money for that moment!
Actually, there was a 2018 update between 2014 and 2020.
Scroll down this page a little bit and you can see all of the Mac minis in order by release.
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Good one. Trust me I am no fan of Intel. I want to be proven wrong. The Geekbench score leaked out is very promising; I can't wait for some real benches to come out and some real world usage testimonials.
Apple is not an existential threat to Intel. It's market share might be at an all time high near 10% at the moment, and with it's focus on professionals it's never going to defeature it's products enough to get into truly low price mass PC markets like chrome-books and cheap Wintel boxes.
But Microsoft or Google might be. The playbook for building high performance ARM SOCs for PCs and laptops has been laid out very clearly by Apple. Microsoft Surface has to be hurting from its lack of performance and battery life vs. MacBooks. Surface X has been a bomb because of it's cheap Qualcomm ARM CPUS. Very clearly both MSFT and Google have to be investing in higher performance ARM SOCs for Surface and Chromebooks. If MSFT even catches up to the original M1, Windows laptops under $1,000 aren't going to have any Intel processors.
A quick 5 minute test is not a full QA regression test. And I would rather not push out buggy software. I haven't validated all the graphics and shaders and everything in my game on macOS.
Ok so then they compared a 2020 machine with a 2018.
