Even more incredible Anandtech reports the M1 max GPU block maxing at 43W in their testing. So a 90W GPU in the M1 Ultra is trading blows with a 350+ watt 3090.
1) https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
In borderlands it got 24 FPS while the 3080 got 52 FPS. How is that on par?
Legacy games written for x86 CPUs obviously are going to perform poorly. I recommend you actually read the review and don't just scroll to the worst gaming benchmark you can find.
Maybe, but the "raw power" is useless if it can't be exploited.
> Legacy games written for x86 CPUs obviously are going to perform poorly.
Not if they're GPU-bound. Even native performance isn't that impressive
It’s a great chip but it doesn’t trade blows with anything Nvidia puts out especially at comparable price points.
Maybe you buy things to run benchmarks. I buy them to run the software I own. For games they come up short on fps and high on price. That is the inverse of what I’m looking for.
However if your workloads are in a more professional domain as mine are then it's entirely fair to say this chip is trading blows with Nvidia's best at lower prices. Don't forget this is an entire SOC and not just a GPU, power saving aren't irrelevant either if you actually work your hardware consistently as I do.
Might be nice for e.g. ML where you can effectively treat them as entirely independent GPUs but for games I would be surprised if this matches a high end GPU.
The first benchmarks are in, and it's mostly a 40-50% improvement in the M1 Max, not 100%.
We don't know yet. Apple is benchmarking against Workstation graphics cards
"production 2.5GHz 28-core Intel Xeon W-based Mac Pro systems with 384GB of RAM and AMD Radeon Pro W6900X graphics with 32GB of GDDR6"
From the linked article. Apple is comparing against RTX 3090.
For some workloads i would not be surprised at all. But for all workloads, ...
Dubious. https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-m1-max-nvidia-rtx-3080-perform...
> Apple even says its new GPU is a match for Nvidia's RTX 3080 mobile chip, though you'll have to take Apple's word for it on that one. We've also reached out to Nvidia to see what it might have to say on the matter.
> RTX 3080 mobile chip
> mobile chip
There's a 50%[1] (!) difference with mobile and non-mobile versions of the chip. So that's hardly a deal breaker.
Can't wait for the (real world) reviews to be published
Hopefully AMD, Nvidia, others can follow the trend
People that game on Mac know it's a lie, GPU for gaming on mac is vastly slower than recent graphic cards.
But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia? That's nuts.