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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by plagiarist on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:33AM (#47542465)
Not quite, what is the vRAM bandwidth of each? The bandwidth is a huge contributor to LLM performance.
Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by embedding-shape on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:45AM (#47542588)
AFAIK, for the unified bandwidth, it depends mostly on the CPU, for M4 Max (I think it's the default today?) it does ~550 GB/s, while GB10 does ~270 GB/s, so about a 2x difference between the two. For comparison, RTX Pro 6000 does 1.8 TB/s, pretty much the same as what a 5090 does, which is probably the fastest/best GPUs a prosumer reasonable could get.
Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by plagiarist on Friday March 27, 2026 @07:00PM (#47549498)
Granted, it won't be competitive against the flagship dGPUs. Nevertheless, that ~2x is a pretty huge difference in similarly priced offerings.