Apple M2 Ultra Isn't Faster Than Last Gen AMD&Intel Desktop CPUs, 50% Slower GPU

Re:Apple M2 Ultra Isn't Faster Than Last Gen AMD&Intel Deskt... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:20PM (#36273289)

For $7,000 there should be no caveats, it should be beating every measurable metric outright.

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Re:Apple M2 Ultra Isn't Faster Than Last Gen AMD&Intel Deskt... by liuliu on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:47PM (#36273619)

I don't know. Nowadays a top-of-the-spec Linux workstation without any cost on top (i.e. bare-components) is around ~10k. 5995WX in the graph wccf provided alone costs ~5k.

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Re:Apple M2 Ultra Isn't Faster Than Last Gen AMD&Intel Deskt... by danieldk on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:01PM (#36273783)

First, a Mac Studio with M1 Ultra is $3999.

Second, people don't buy Macs only for performance. They also buy Macs for macOS, for integration between devices, for a system that is cool and quiet, for hardware acceleration of ProRes, for on-device privacy-preserving machine learning. Being a bit slower than competing AMD and Intel systems is acceptable, because you get so many other desirable properties in return.

I'd definitely consider a Mac Studio with an M2 Max or M2 Ultra, if I didn't want something portable. I would never buy a machine with a competing machine with an Intel or AMD machine, because I don't want to deal with Windows or desktop Linux.

Other people have another set of priorities and that is fine.

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