M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark Results

Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by lvncelot on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:12AM (#38110367)

I have a workstation with a 3950x and 128gigs ram that I mostly use for fluid sims in Houdini and rendering tasks. There's honestly nothing that I'm doing on my work machine (an M2 macbook pro) that I feel would benefit from more cores or more RAM - really compute-intensive stuff gets offloaded to a server anyways.

The only real difference I'm noticing is that emacs for some reason is just slower on osx than on linux, but that's not down to the raw performance, as even my 7 old Thinkpad with a 4-core i5 makes emacs feel way snappier than my macbook.

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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by aeonik on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:44AM (#38111564)

Have you native compiled Emacs?

brew install emacs-plus@29 --with-native-comp

I have a 5950x when 128GB of RAM, and an M1 Max. I was performance testing some Clojure code a few days ago (pure number crunching in parallel), and I was shocked to see it running faster in every test case on my M1 Mac.

I think it might have more to do with memory bandwidth and thermals than the processing speed and cores.

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