Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises

Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by klelatti on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:17AM (#28998113)

The point that seems to have got less attention than it deserves is the balance of resources spent on CPU vs GPU - ie M1 Max is a big GPU with a CPU attached.

Yes these machines are used by lots of video editors etc but it does seem to be symbolic of a general shift towards more compute being done on the GPU - now even on laptops - and not just for video.

And having more GPU compute available at your fingertips will only reinforce that trend.

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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by throwawaywindev on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:43AM (#28998663)

Has to be for their mixed reality product rumored to launch next year that they’ll want native apps to be developed for. There are only so many ProRes video editors out there.

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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by zarzavat on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:38AM (#28998270)

It's just reversion to the mean. M1 had a beefy CPU and lightweight GPU. M1 Pro/Max is a beefy CPU and a beefy GPU.

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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by klelatti on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:51AM (#28998361)

Apple spent 100% of its 23 billion transistor budget Max vs Pro on GPU resources - that’s probably indicative that GPU compute is being prioritised.

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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by greendave on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:01AM (#28999822)

Yep, just as they did with the 2013 Mac Pro. We all remember how well that worked out.

There's a substantial subset of high-performance computing tasks that are limited by GPU performance. But that's far from the whole equation.

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