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MacBook Pro's M1 Max GPU is Over 3x Faster Than M1 in First Metal Benchmark
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Getting my speccd out 16 Max in a couple of weeks. Finally... I can enjoy Minecraft how it was meant to be played.
Agree. The only benchmark that matters is the application you are running. Apple Silicon has all sorts of optimizations that can make things run better than the Geekbench numbers might suggest.
New York City Real Estate. The price goes up faster than linear with apartment size. Not in computing, though.
Nope! 2 Versions from the same chip. One with 32 active cores and the other with 24 active cores . You can check Apple’s website if you have doubts
MacBook Air is relatively affordable with enough power, so Apple might capture some of the PC market using that instead of $6000 MacBook Pro. With enough people choosing the Apple Silicon Mac, some other applications can eventually follow. Fanless is an amazing attraction for many people.
With that being said, those games you mention aren't that popular. With fortnite being kicked out of Mac alongside all games developed using unreal engine, I dunno how this will pan out. Tech industry has gone through a rough period of each matching being incompatible with each other, down to a handful nowadays and architecture-independent to a degree. Last year Apple quietly ported Metal to PC somewhat so developers can compile their PC game projects to Mac with Apple Silicon. But to me, Apple should make Metal somewhat multi-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) so game developers can accept the offer of porting games to Mac, and maintain Metal the same fashion Microsoft maintains their DirectX technology.
Ultimately, though, Apple Silicon should aim at the power level to emulate x86 and other processor architectures with high performance. This would solve gaming problem on Mac once and for all, plus that would be an amazing tagline: a computer that you can run anything you want on, without sacrifice.
Master blaster lift embargo. Lol.
Hopefully we’ll see real apps get pushed heavily through their paces not don copy past bs we typically see from content creators/YouTubers.
So what are we looking at here?
I've read online something in the ballpark of....
16 core = RTX 3060 mobile
24 core = RTX 3070 mobile
32 core = RTX 3080 mobile
Obviously there are significant variances not least the variable power supply ratings available to each tier of NVidia.
I've read online something in the ballpark of....
16 core = RTX 3060 mobile
24 core = RTX 3070 mobile
32 core = RTX 3080 mobile
Obviously there are significant variances not least the variable power supply ratings available to each tier of NVidia.
This cloth is going to be the new $1000 Monitor stand. Epicentre of internet memes. The legends are gonna wispier about it for generations to come.
If I ever see that cloth in an Apple store, it'll be an instant impulse buy for me. Just so I can say I bought the "Apple Cloth".
3x is 300% you know... any increments around 20% is awesome in tech land. 300% is quite INCREDIBLE.I hope this is not the 32-core gpu otherwise this would be a bit disappointing
Edit: I already pre-ordered my full spec MacBook with M1 Max anyways
I don’t know from where the image was taken but the only chart on Apple’s website that says something like that when comparing with the Radeon 5600M is the one measuring Cinema4D redshift, other software have different improvements. The GPUs charts during the presentation had the M1 as reference.
As for the number of cores, I almost certainly convinced it is the 24 core GPU, because the M1 Pro (16 core) score is twice of the M1. It would be almost impossible to veer so much from the linear relation when the M1 Pro respects the linear relation.
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the current radeon pro 5700XT has a metal score of 74768...and not 59629
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so if this is indeed a 32 gpu core with this score (68.000) is around Vega 56 desktop ? i think we had vega 56 on the 16" mbp also
when blender is released with Cycles full metal support..it will be interesting to compare rendering performance. I have a 14in mbp m1pro otw and I have a zephyrus g15 (5900hs/3070) ..will be a good apples to apples comparison since both will be running natively.
yes, a friend of mine is in Activision and their strategy since the M1 ipad pro..is to make AAA games that dont work on older ipads , and them to scale from iOS ipads pro to the mac also
This is the way, since the mobile gaming profits are now nr 1
And not only Activision is doing this 3 years plan...but i heard others will join the same boat since they have the hardware now for proper AAA. But again, the draw back is compatibility since M1 ipad pro is the only one who will support these, while others arcade games can support even iphones and ipads from 3 years ago
I mean, the A12X/A12Z are beats too.
Easily a lot of games will be able to run on those iPads as well as long as they turn down some settings. If you make a game run at 60FPS on an M1 it will easily run at 30 on an A12X...
Where is the GT3, GT3RS, and GT2RS? ? I worked for Porsche for years and quite like your analogy. I would agree.
Can someone tell me the pros/cons of MoltenVK and what differences that may make? (in an idiot-friendly way)
I presume it makes it somewhat easier to cross-platform games? But I presume that's only any good if written in Vulkan in the first place? And Vulkan is only used on a few games currently? And I presume is incompatible with the likes of Unreal engine (or whatever engine lots of AA games use)?
So unless people start using Vulkan instead, then MoltenVK is going to make little difference to more games coming? And how likely is it people might start using Vulkan?
Also with new devices like Steamdeck which Valve are behind, and them pushing for linux support and only recently getting anti-cheat to work on such things, is that likely to drive more people to develop cross-platform? And will that help the Mac somewhat, or just Linux games?
Correct? Or is that a load of nonsense. School me...
I presume it makes it somewhat easier to cross-platform games? But I presume that's only any good if written in Vulkan in the first place? And Vulkan is only used on a few games currently? And I presume is incompatible with the likes of Unreal engine (or whatever engine lots of AA games use)?
So unless people start using Vulkan instead, then MoltenVK is going to make little difference to more games coming? And how likely is it people might start using Vulkan?
Also with new devices like Steamdeck which Valve are behind, and them pushing for linux support and only recently getting anti-cheat to work on such things, is that likely to drive more people to develop cross-platform? And will that help the Mac somewhat, or just Linux games?
Correct? Or is that a load of nonsense. School me...
The RTX 3080M reaches 18TFlops, the M1 Max with 32 Cores 10.4 TFlops
The 3080M has incredible performance similar to the desktop counterpart, but has a huge 95W TDP.
To compete with the 3080 series and the Radeon 7800 series which is upcoming Apple needs a 64 and 128 cores edition for the higher end desktops (iMacs and Mac Pro).
in general those settings are applied for android platform
im just telling you how some developers plans and doing it
They are building AAA games that can run just on M1 and up...for native resolution at 60hz or 120hz depending on the game
I think next ones will be an fps and rpg(aka diablo for the ipad and the mac with M1 at least, that can run up to 120fps (on the m1 max native), the target for release they are saying late 2022..but they never get the release target.
So by 2023 a lot more devices will support it
the GT3/RS are the upcoming cores from the Mac Pros 64 and 128 gpu cores
Maybe, but the point here is that people want to play now on the current AAA titles, not wait years before future AAA titles have MacOS release as well with native support for Metal and Apple Silicon optimization. Apple didnt dedicate even a second of the keynote to talk about actual non-iOS games running on the new chips. CoD or Battlefield demo would have been good indication of "We are here, these chips are also suitable for gaming!". An even more clear indication would have been if they have released a gaming MacBook Pro variant.