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A comment on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by klelatti on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:16PM (#28911068)
On reflection I think they've decided that their pro users want 'more GPU not more CPU' - they could easily have added a couple more CPU cores but it obviously wasn't a priority.

Agreed that it's hard to see how designing a CPU just for the Mac Pro would make any kind of economic sense but equally struggling to see what else they can do!

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by arvinsim on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:49AM (#28915804)
There is only so much you can do improving the CPU.

On the other hand, we still haven't really reached the limit for GPUs.

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by klelatti on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @06:32AM (#28916660)
I suppose it’s the software - most CPU software is primarily designed to run on a single / few cores. GPU code is massively parallel by design.
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