M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

Re:M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores by pier25 on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:25PM (#38136373)

In a laptop?

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Re:M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores by forrestthewoods on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:08PM (#38136662)

I was thinking about the desktop variants.

Apple Silicon is amazing. But if you’re doing heavy GPU it’s not very exciting.

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Re:M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores by stevenhuang on Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:33AM (#38138683)

It's very exciting in the local LLMs space, where the unified memory allows fast inference of large models.

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Re:M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores by dagaci on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:59AM (#38141049)

I read that the bandwidth is 50% lower on the M3 combined with a lower CPU core coun. This reduction will impact inferrence performance. It maybe better to stick with M2 series if you really really think spending $10k on a laptop mac to do inferrence slowly (but faster than a plain PC of course) make sense.

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