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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by threeseed on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:29AM (#28997822)
> doesn't support ECC cannot be taken seriously for professional use. Like the M1 Max.

M1X is using DDR5 which does have on-die ECC.

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Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip by smoldesu on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:13PM (#29004889)
Just being pedantic, DDR5's implementation of on-die ECC is still not equivalent to the implementation on CPUs. It doesn't account for errors that occur during processing, and there's still a pretty significant chance of corruption in L1-3 caches.
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