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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by moron4hire on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:24PM (#28913568)
For all the other claims on GPU performance, they call out that they are comparing to the integrated graphics, and they name the GPU specifically. With this one claim, they name a computer, but not the GPU. "Compared to a computer that has a laptop 3080 in it" is not the same thing as "compared to a 3080."

And they don't define "performance". Is it fill rate? Is it TFLOPs? Is it memory bandwidth? The M1 Max has 64 GPU cores. That sounds like a lot! It's not! The NVidia Laptop 3080 has 6,144 cores. That's NINETY SIX TIMES as many cores. I'm sorry, but supposedly achieving 90% of the "performance" of a GPU that has 2 orders of magnitude more cores is just not in the realm of believable. They are being intentionally evasive here.

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by johncalvinyoung on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:01PM (#28914070)
Wouldn't the 3080's core count you mentioned be more comparable to the 'Execution Unit' quoted on Apple's slides: 4096 EUs on the 32-core variant?

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17016/2021-10-18%2019_21_1...

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by ArgyleSound on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:43PM (#28913665)
They very much put some numbers on performance in the keynote, you can go back and watch it.

The Max:

10.4 tflops

327 gtexels/sec

164 gpixels/sec

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by tcskeptic on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:50PM (#28913712)
What I see on desktop 3080 is:

465 Gtexels/s

164.2 Gpixels/s

if those numbers from Apple are real -- that's bonkers