M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by aminozuur on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:09PM (#26334591)

Using a DisplayLink adapter, you can extend a second external display. Still silly these machines they can't do it out of the box.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by agloeregrets on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:18PM (#26334703)

Bingo. I do this. It's a little buggy every now and then, you lose unlock with Apple Watch and there is a small performance cost on one core of the system, but they just shipped a native driver too.

Compared to my coworker's 10 core i9 build with over 64GB of ram, my base model Macbook Air builds our node app in half the time.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by SXX on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:08PM (#26335397)

I kind a like that I can run my primary display at 164Hz via dedicated Type-C to DisplayPort adapter. Too bad DisplayLink can't go beyond 60Hz on 2K screen.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by herpderperator on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:47PM (#26335117)

Just be aware that DisplayLink uses the CPU to do this, so it will increase overall CPU utilisation, and you'll notice dropped frames occasionally.

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