Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip
by 0x457 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:24PM
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Apple SoCs have weird external monitor support purely because of SoC IO, not GPU power.
60mhz and 120mhz are your typos, because that's an insane refresh rate. It's 60Hz and 120Hz, not mhz...
> So the M5's "40% faster GPUs" is being used to double the frame rate?
You always have to read full marketing BS when you read it, it almost always says "X times faster than Y in Z workfload".
Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip
by specialist on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:50AM
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Am noob, so I hadn't considered the I/O. Thanks. I just assumed they'd use more pins (or now pads).
> "X times faster than Y in Z workfload"
Mosdef.
Also, reducing energy use (heat generated), mostly thru process improvements, allows each new generation to run that much faster.
Vision Pro M5 PR says something about 120mhz. So the M5's "40% faster GPUs" is being used to double the frame rate?
Being noob, I'm guessing each desktop requires 3 additional cores and 16Gb VRAM.
Of course, we can think of many strategies (using current hardware) to support additional desktops, spaces, windows, etc. If Apple really wanted to.