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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by bertil on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:12PM (#38079314)
I was more surprised not to see any AI-specific benchmarks—sure, the most popular open-source models are from avowed competitors, but there should have been a way to define a re-training task that would be relevant for the wave of ML programmers.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by outside1234 on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:18PM (#38079365)
It won’t excel at this. It is a mobile GPU and won’t be able to put up remotely similar numbers to a desktop GPU with massive amounts of power and cooling.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by aurareturn on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:14PM (#38079824)
They didn't improve the neural engine. M3's NPU is half the speed of the A17 Pro in iPhone 15 Pro.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by jsight on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:58AM (#38084112)
I had the same thought. It seems like the improvements there weren't worth talking about.

AFAICT, the biggest benefit is just the unified memory model at this point.

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