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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 dannyw on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:35PM (#28914268)
1. If you're a gamer, this seems comparable to a 3070 Laptop, which is comparable to a 3060 Desktop.

2. If you're a ML researcher you use CUDA (which only works on NVIDIA cards), they have basically a complete software lock unless you want to spend an undefined number of X hundreds of hours fixing and troubleshooting compatibility issues.

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by domesmack on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:41PM (#28914608)
There has been an M1 fork of Tensorflow almost since the chip launched last year. I believe Apple did the leg work. It’s a hoop to jump through, yes, and no ones training big image models or transformers with this, but I imagine students or someone sandboxing a problem offline would benefit from the increased performance over CPU only.

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by ngcc_hk on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:48AM (#28914960)
Seem on the long term game here my dear all. Have amd sponsor that kind of activities. Or intel. …
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