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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 gpt5 on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:59PM (#28912333)
As the charts Apple shared in the event showed, you hit diminishing returns in performance/watt pretty quickly.

Sure. It'd be tough to be the top performing chip in the market, but you can get pretty close.

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by lostmsu on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:34PM (#28924063)
I dunno. Setting power limits on 3090 at >50% has nearly linear effect on performance.
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