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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by kllrnohj on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:38AM (#30613411)
M1's blender rendering performance also wasn't very good, though. Assuming the scene was small enough to fit in the smaller VRAM of competitive consumer GPUs anyway.

Video content creation specifically is where it mostly achieves what the graphs indicate, and that's mostly a "well yeah, video decoder ASICs are really efficient. I'll take things we already knew for $100, Alex"

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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by tambourine_man on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:12AM (#30613604)
Blender didn’t even run on metal until a few months ago. It’s on beta now and the performance has increased substantially.

If the software is optimized, the graphics hold up fine.

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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by zamalek on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:34AM (#30613749)
The other elephant in the room is OptiX. Are Apple seriously indicating that they can outperform that with a iGPU?
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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by bsenftner on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:39AM (#30613784)
Unless you specifically configure Blender for GPU rendering, it renders on the CPU(s).
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