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A comment on Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090. Parent comment

Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by saiya-jin on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:24AM (#30721897)
Who cares about hardware you can't utilize? Its just a piece of silicon with potentially any performance imaginable. What you can do with it, now, matters. If this changes in some theoretical future, well we re-evaluate performance claims and stats.

Nobody bothers to guess what's the potential of some new graphic card once all drivers, games, OS etc are fully tweaked and optimized. You decide on performance now.

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Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by sirwhinesalot on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:50AM (#30722209)
You can already use it now if you're targeting the platform. It's not the platform provider's problem if you're using a compatibility layer, that was your choice. Well, from a development POV at least, from a user POV, if your tools are using the compatibility layer, there is not much you can do.

We knew this would happen for everything using Rosetta, that's just part of transitioning to a new CPU architecture. For Vulkan vs Metal that's self-inflicted on Apple's part.

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