Apple M1 SoC

M1 Ultra should be a monster at rendering because of available VRAM.

Redshift has their Moana Island Scene and it does crazy good on M1 Max.

2 x 1080 Ti = 77m
2 x 2080 Ti = 34m:17s
1 x 3090 (24GB) = 21m:45s
2 x 3090 = 12m:44s
M1 Max (64GB) = 28m:27s

M1 Ultra would probably halve that to 14 minutes.

Times taken from this thread.

A Redshift developer do mention some issues with the default benchmark here.

 

The M1 Ultra with 64-core GPU is $4999. It’s a $1000 upgrade from the base 48-core GPU.

 

The GPU scaling is not that good between M1 Max and Ultra in most compute workloads. Especially in games, the famous multi GPU stutter is present in full force on the M1 Ultra.

https://www.theverge.com/22981815/apple-mac-studio-m1-ultra-max-review

In compute, with Geekbench 5 using OpenCL, the RTX 3090 is 250% faster than M1 Ultra, keep in mind the OpenCL is not that best result for the 3090 as NVIDIA has very weak support for OpenCL. The scaling from M1 Max to Ultra is only 31% using OpenCL and 46% using Metal.

Blender without RT, the RTX 3090 is 4.9 times faster than M1 Ultra. The scaling from M1 Max to Ultra is only 60%.

 

What is the target audience for the M1 Max ?

 

A lot of creative users fall in that segment, photographers, video editors, graphic designers, print and press etc. Basically anyone that runs Adobe CC or similar.

People seem to be preoccupied with only Blender and games here for whatever reason.

Zbrush performance in Photoshop are great on these SoCs.

 

Well, Apple did invite those comparisons themselves since they compared 3080m against M1 Max and 3090 against M1 Ultra while being vague about what is being compared.

 

We can conclude it wasn’t Blender or we can keep beating that dead horse.

 

It appears it doesn't max out power usage for neither the CPU or GPU. Blender only uses around 30-40W instead of up to 120W the GPU is capable of. CPU maxes out at 3064Mhz instead of 3.2Ghz.

I suppose we are waiting on some software updates, even from Apple.



I just ran 3DMark Wild Life Extreme and GPU power on my M1 Max (24-core GPU) topped out briefly at 28W, otherwise were in the 12-20W range. My FPS were 60FPS (max my screen does) and my score were 10020.

 

You need to use the built in power metrics tool in macOS to read CPU and GPU power draw. Wall power doesn't really tell you anything other than it doesn't max out clearly. The PSU is 370W in the Mac Studio.

 

I still don't understand why you are participating in this thread.

 

The more I look at this display, the worse it's design looks.

 

That's Strange isn't even a15 already strong enough for sustained 60 fps genshin? Like on iPad mini

Hmm I wonder... Whether future iPad mini with m1 will be worth it or it'll be just a small jump from a15. Due to limited tdp setup