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> The chips here aren’t only able to outclass any competitor laptop design, but also competes against the best desktop systems out there, you’d have to bring ou
by klelatti 5y ago
> The chips here aren’t only able to outclass any competitor laptop design, but also competes against the best desktop systems out there, you’d have to bring out server-class hardware to get ahead of the M1 Max – it’s just generally absurd. (Anandtech as you linked to)
You’re making claims about hypothetical AMD / Nvidia performance at different nodes which are impossible to verify.
And Apple is clearly taking a huge risk by investing massively in the latest node. At the minimum they deserve credit for that.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThey're pretty easy to verify. Find the average difference in performance at a given TDP and substract the efficiency improvement, this breaks down in single-core somewhat but not in multi-core. There is very little speed differential between desktop and mobile single-core performance nowadays. The M1 Max is nowhere even close to the best desktop systems which would be the 3990X or the upcoming 5990WX. Despite having much faster RAM - which is the biggest reason why it can perform so well in FP workloads - in integer workloads it cannot compete. I'm citing Anandtech on their data, not on their opinion. I'll give them credit for investing a lot in 5nm.