Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip

Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by mhh__ on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:09PM (#28995643)

I'm not totally convinced that'll happen in the desktop space. Embedded, I completely buy it, but I have read fairly convincing arguments that ARM might be a better ISA for really high-performance architectures. RISC-V also seems to value compressed instructions far too much, so we could see a high-performance fork of RISC-V?

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by urthor on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:10AM (#28996976)

Given how much cruft x86 has, there's a comments about world class experts above saying the gap between ARM and x86 is maybe 5%, at best, and probably less.

There's realistically probably no reason RISC-V cannot work, expect that the number of techniques needed to implement a leading edge high performance evaluator is enormous.

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