'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored specs and performance

Re:'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored ... by kelseyfrog on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:36PM (#33823171)

I'm doing a GIS project[1] for fun to find out where I want to move in the next year. I have to constantly monitor RAM usage and save before running some operations because there's a chance OOM killer makes a fatal decision to kill the program. This is on a machine with 32GB and I could easily find myself using more.

1. Using QGIS. It's the first real GIS project I've done. I'm using to do this sort of work in code, so it's been a fun learning experience too.

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Re:'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored ... by brailsafe on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:37PM (#33824673)

GIS can be hungry, but QGIS is incredible for what it is. Is there a remote sensing component to your project? Satellite tiffs are... big

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Re:'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored ... by kelseyfrog on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:10PM (#33824976)

For sure! And yes parts of it involve raster data. It doesn't help that I have very little control over the raster internals.

My project is limited to NY,OR,WA, but this clearly has a potential sparse raster problem. If I was doing it in code, I'd reach for internally tiled cloud-optimized geotiffs with low compression and I'd be pretty sure that all the empty tiles would get compressed down to nothing.

With QGIS, I can cross my fingers and hope it's doing something relatively sane with GDAL in the background.

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