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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by pornel on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:55PM (#28934607)
It's very high bandwidth for a CPU, but not that great for a GPU (400GB/s vs 440GB/s in 3070 and 980GB/s in 3090).
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by minhazm on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:47PM (#28936306)
It's not quite apples to apples. The 3070 only has 8GB of memory available, whereas the M1 Max has up to 64 GB available. It's also unified memory in the M1 and doesn't require a copy between CPU & GPU. Some stuff will be better for the M1 Max and some stuff will be worse.
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by artificialLimbs on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:23PM (#28935962)
>> ...not that great for a GPU...

* almost equals the highest laptop GPU available

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by coayer on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:11PM (#28937460)
But it's also a premium product, so it matching a 3070m isn't really above what you'd expect for the cost (but efficiency is another story)
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by oneplane on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:43PM (#28935251)
On the other hand, it's zero-copy between CPU and GPU.
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by nottorp on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:40PM (#28937097)
Of course, with a 3070 and up you have to play with headphones so you don't hear the fan noise.

This is the best feature of the new Apple CPUs if you ask me: silence.

Now to wait for a decent desktop...

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