> * NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs M1 Max - OpenCL https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/compare/3551790?bas... [29.0%]
30% performance for ~15% of power use in laptop form factor? that's not boo, that seems like a clear win for apple.
30% performance for ~15% of power use in laptop form factor? that's not boo, that seems like a clear win for apple.
The M1 Max is well below that floor at max wattage.
Actual power draw depends on monitor resolution, number of attached displays, and refresh rate, though.
Sorry, Apple is clearly lightyears ahead. All they need to do is put out a chip with 48 of their gpu cores and they will beat the most expensive top of the line best ever performance gpu on the market… with a laptop-grade SoC.
It also has hexadecimal-channel RAM. 16 channels of DDR5. Instead of putting the SOC on GDDR6 and gimping the CPU side with higher latency, they just stacked in DDR5 channels until they had enough. Absolute meme tier design, Apple just does not give a single fuck about cost.
(note that DDR5 channels are half the width of DDR4 - you get two channels per stick. But, the burst length is longer to compensate (so you get the same amount per burst), and you get higher MT/s. But either way, it's conceptually like octochannel DDR4, "but better", it's a server-class memory configuration and then they stacked it all on the package so you could put it in a laptop.)
I will say though if you are in a large city this doesn't work as well, the lines are longer.