Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip

Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by arcticbull on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:56PM (#28995912)

Yeah the 12900HK beats the Max by 3%, even though the M1 Max is way more power efficient and likely utterly smoked it on GPU. After all it’s 8% faster than a mobile 3060.

The 3060 alone is a 60W TGP.

The M1 Max running Cinebench consumes 9W while the 11980HK (previous gen) consumes 45W. Perf/W Is about 3X higher for the M1 Max on CPU alone and I suspect factoring in graphics we’ve got a breakaway here.

Intel will catch up but not today.

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by valzam on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:30PM (#28996100)

Just FYI because I've seent that a few times already: A 60W/70W 3060 is -very slow-. There are many laptops that supply much more power and conversely also get better results.

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by arcticbull on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:26AM (#28996704)

That's a very good point. Do you thing running a 3060 at a higher TGP gets you the same perf/W? I'm genuinely curious where they have them set along the curve.

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by valzam on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:13PM (#29007598)

I mean 60W is very low, probably 90-100W is the sweetspot? I have a Legion 5 Pro which supplies 130W and that's pretty much the highest you will get.

I am pretty sure perf/W for the M1 Max chips is excellent, better than the 3060. But saying it performs "on par" with a 3060 isn't really correct.

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