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Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by KaoruAoiShiho on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:01AM (#30721073)
Integrated is an advantage not a disadvantage on a technical level, it's just worse for the consumer as you cannot upgrade them separately. What you should be comparing is the number of transistors to see whether the architecture is impressive or if the speed is due to a size brute force. the M1 Ultra has 4x the number of transistors as the 3090 (probably about half is just the GPU)! It's a freaking humongous chip.
Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by philistine on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:07AM (#30721134)
What difference does it make if Apple can achieve performance through more transistors than the competition?
Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by KaoruAoiShiho on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:08AM (#30721712)
It's more TSMC achieving it than apple achieving it, and that technology will get to competitors. https://www.technopixel.org/nvidia-hopper-architecture-comes...

It's just due to apple being the biggest customer they have access 1 year earlier.