So not having high-end option is fine? Good luck with that as those who need high performance dont care about the power consumption.
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Link? Which "Intel Core i7"? There are literally hundreds of them, ranging from around 12 years. Some of which are two core low-power CPUs.
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Please explain how Blender is CPU intensive, I'm dying to hear.
These benchmarks are specifically for benchmarking rendering using the GPU, including ray tracing, in real world scenarios, so it's about as good a benchmark as you're going to get.
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It shows not to much sense. My M4 Mac mini plays a bit better BG3 than my 5700XT iMac
Exactly. Why ever a „news and rumors“ site should report on a new product that was rumored to be released this week and confirm the new specs instead of leaving us to guess if the rumors are true…
I don’t usually upgrade until it’s 2x as that is honestly where you will notice it in everything you do, not just some things. And usually when it’s 2x, all sorts of other improvements went with it in the same model tier that make all other things 2x or more, like networking, disk access and storage capacity, graphics speed, memory speed and capacity, etc.
So as an M1 Pro owner, I may go for the M5 Pro as basically everything about it is going to be 2x or more, other than single core being almost 2x.
Yeah, I can’t use my old Intel Mac mini because it doesn’t understand 2 factor authentication so I can’t login to accounts. And no web pages are secure. And I can’t even go to Apple’s website to get a newer OS to maybe get it to work.
The most interesting in M5 is GPU. If we look at blender benchmarks M5 is faster than M1 Ultra. It seems that in M1 family of chips GPU wasn't the strongest in compute. That is about to change with M5 quite a lot.
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Blender - Open Data
Blender Open Data is a platform to collect, display and query the results of hardware and software performance tests - provided by the public.
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M1 series didn't have any raytracing hardware, so I think that is going to make up a large percentage of the difference.The most interesting in M5 is GPU. If we look at blender benchmarks M5 is faster than M1 Ultra. It seems that in M1 family of chips GPU wasn't the strongest in compute. That is about to change with M5 quite a lot.
Blender - Open Data
Blender Open Data is a platform to collect, display and query the results of hardware and software performance tests - provided by the public.
Dragging along my 2017 Intel MBP, I was hoping for an M5 Pro or max. I need performance cores and the stock M5 won’t be enough. It’s gotten bad enough that I just need a new machine and may cave and go for an M4 Pro. The rumeurs on the M5 Pro seem to be all over the place. If it’s next spring, maybe can chug along th final mile but if w’ere waiting until next fall, forget it.
Which is it? You're able to use a 2017 Intel MBP (presumably i7-7820hq variety, not the i5), or you need performance cores, and a stock M5 won't do?
I have a Mac Mini M4 for heavy lifting, I want a nearer equivalent in my second machine. The 2017 is only used at present for MS office, browsing and looking at photos (no heavy lifting). I use Logic Pro which is very hungry for P cores. So M5 has 4, M4 Pro 10 - that will be significant improvement.
Should have replaced this a while ago. Laptop life-span really is at most 4-5 years. Grinding along just for the sake of « holding on doesn’t make much sense. So M4 Pro vs « rumored » M5 pro - I lose what, 6-9 months? Sort of what I am thinking at the moment …
Happy to be convinced otherwise …
Yeah, that's a hard call. It seems the big overhaul on the M5 is the GPU, and Logic is hungry for CPU. As you say, grinding for the sake of holding on doesn't make much sense.
If your current M4 is able to handle your workload, just not ideally, you should be set with the M4 Pro... but you know it's days are numbered, so paying full price as it's about to be replaced isn't appealing... and who knows what other benefits the new chips might have on top of the extra CPU power. Early M5 benchmarks are showing improved SSD speeds, which would be a nice bonus if that holds true on all systems... but none of the improvements are strictly needed. It seems the wait for the M5 Pro is more FOMO than need. I guess whether waiting is worthwhile depends on how much you hate limping along on your 2017 MBP. Assuming you're in the US, B&H and other big vendors often have massive sales. Maybe you can find a deal on an M4 Max, instead... extra power without waiting.