With that high memory bandwidth, Potentially miners will grab them, thus diversifying the products they chomp?
that 4339 CAD pricing for the base model Max though. It's definitely going to ride higher from there. That's gotta be one hell of a job to get some good ROI out of the max.
Yeah I'm not the biggest apple fan but anyone today who buys an expensive non apple laptop needs their head examined57B transistors, that is one dense chip. Apart from strictly gaming or niche software support I don't see why anyone would buy a high-end windows laptop instead of this.
Yeah I'm not the biggest apple fan but anyone today who buys an expensive non apple laptop needs their head examined
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...k-pros-with-display-notches-m1-pro-and-m1-max
If I was valve I'ld be doing anything to try and convince apple to put one of these in the steam deck
TB4 / DisplayPort / USB-C supports that. It can drive three 6K displays and one 4K.Its disappointing that they bothered to bring HDMI port, yet they are not supporting the latest 2.1. Kinda defeats the purpose if you still have to rely on dongles if you need to connect displays supporting beyond 4k/60.
Its disappointing that they bothered to bring HDMI port, yet they are not supporting the latest 2.1. Kinda defeats the purpose if you still have to rely on dongles if you need to connect displays supporting beyond 4k/60.
It's basically an RX 6600XT going by the specs. Same TFLOPS, texture rate, fillrate.It is faster than AMD 6600m But also it has 4096 shader vs 1792 from AMD. I think Clock speed is 1,3 GHz vs 2.2 GHz AMD
if the power benchmarks are to be believed and there is no throttling under regular loads, then this would be extremely high end by the numbers. Performance per watt is insane*. Performance per $ is astronomically bad.
57B transistors, that is one dense chip. Apart from strictly gaming or niche software support I don't see why anyone would buy a high-end windows laptop instead of this.
Apple is an existential threat to PCs and by extension Valve.
Isnt it the other way around though? seems these new M1 pro/max devices are more for the professional market (niche compared to the avarage joe?). A high-end windows laptop offers about the same performance at the same prices i think.
With worse battery life, power consumption, noise, size, screen quality etc.
All these are key strengths for laptops imo, and nothing compares to these MacBooks when it comes to these, especially battery life.
I'm not necessarily sure they can do as much here as they are entirely bound to x86/x64 given their legacy.Absolutely true, and theres where AMD/Intel/nv, sony and MS need to improve because the energy these apple chips require to obtain the same performance levels is just too large of a gap. But still even with that, these new apple devices are intresting to pro consumers etc, not so much to the average joe. It'd be different if Apple would start selling apple sillicon hardware like intel/nv, amd etc does.
I'm not necessarily sure they can do as much here as they are entirely bound to x86/x64 given their legacy.
CISC instruction sets tend to perform badly with parallelism; IIRC they had to introduce micro-ops or something to improve this.
edit: apparently my argument is very dated. Apparently decoding x86 to risc is only 3-5% more power draw. Perhaps not that efficient if we're just looking at node size advantages listed below.Well, im all for it (an apple world). Aslong as their prices come down, it wont matter whats powering our boxes. Thats one barrier for now. But then, if AMD/NV and intel dont exist like they do today (or at all), apple has a monopoly to keep those high prices or even drive them up, which could mean that the entry level chips stays high too.
Having a XSX sized chip/die with more performance running at 40 to 50 watts in a laptop cant be beat.
What about Apple's history suggests to you they will ever bring down prices? Their M.O. is adding percieved value and charging through the nose for it.Well, im all for it (an apple world). Aslong as their prices come down, it wont matter whats powering our boxes. Thats one barrier for now. But then, if AMD/NV and intel dont exist like they do today (or at all), apple has a monopoly to keep those high prices or even drive them up, which could mean that the entry level chips stays high too.
Having a XSX sized chip/die with more performance running at 40 to 50 watts in a laptop cant be beat.
Edit: was sony going the right route with the PS2 back in the day? Looking back, seems quite forward looking.