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A comment on Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware. Parent comment

Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by tomnipotent on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:26PM (#36980988)
There's a reason the Mac Mini went longer than the Pro without an update. Compared to the Studio, the Pro has dual 10Gb Ethernet, SATA and PCIe Gen 4, and a rack-mounted chassis option. For certain classes of enterprise workloads, that makes a difference. Think VFX, post production, sound stages and recording that can't use the Studio for lack of PCIe expansion slots for industry-related hardware (HDX/DSP).
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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by pjmlp on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:01AM (#36984620)
Well, those same VFX people now can't use their GPUs on the new Mac Pro.

Thankfully VFX Reference Platform also accounts for Windows and Linux, https://vfxplatform.com/

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by tomnipotent on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:12PM (#36991132)
Why would you need a separate GPU when you have integrated 60-core GPU with access to up to 198gb of memory? Like what you'd need a render farm? Apple Metal is already a target for all the important tools.
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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by pjmlp on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:56AM (#36996373)
Because GPUs are more than just memory, and in regards to your memory comment, unified memory is not the same as having a dedicated.

And when the GPUs no longer can keep up, one doesn't need to throw away the whole computer.

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