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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by setBoolean on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:46AM (#26340880)
The Snapdragon 855 does 950 Gflops (FP32) natively not in the browser. The M1 does 2.6 Tflops (FP32) natively and 900 Gflops in the browser.
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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by ladyanita22 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:23AM (#26341094)
What difference does it make? WebGPU runs natively.
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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by setBoolean on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:08AM (#26341370)
As far as I know WebGPU has a performance overhead, also he is using an experimental implementation. How do you explain the difference between the 2.6 TFlops (FP32) [1] of the M1 and the 950 GFlops (FP32) of the 855 [2]?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon_pr...

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