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As a comparsion a quick build on PCPartPicker: Xeon E5 22 core, Radeon RX 6900 XT, case, power supply, 64 gb of ram, motherboard, 1TB SSD and CPU cooler. Comes
by ShakataGaNai 5y ago
As a comparsion a quick build on PCPartPicker: Xeon E5 22 core, Radeon RX 6900 XT, case, power supply, 64 gb of ram, motherboard, 1TB SSD and CPU cooler. Comes in at just shy of $5,000
That CPU isn't as powerful as the one the M1 Ultra beat in their specs, but should be about the same GPU as they compared and beat. If the benchmarks are to be believed.... the $4,000 Mac Studio will be an absolute powerhouse in the price/performance/power market for quite some amount of time.
Normally I'd make some snarky remark about Apple Tax, but in this case they look to have the PC hardware equivalent very well and truly beat on cost. For now.
- xemdetia 5y agoIf anything this just reminds me how frustrating their product line was pre-M1 for so many years. I'm still dealing with the legacy of having to work with people with 16GB as the ceiling and projects that simply do not fit in them.
- arvinsim 5y agoIf RAM is your bottleneck, then you will still have the same problem. Apple still ships 8GB machines.
- xemdetia 5y agoI'm not speaking 8GB as an end-user problem, but as a developer problem. Most of my developing machines are 32GB+ but I have to create successful workflows for macbooks that only have 16GB.
- traceroute66 5y ago> As a comparsion a quick build on PCPartPicker: Xeon E5 22 core, Radeon RX 6900 XT, case, power supply, 64 gb of ram, motherboard, 1TB SSD and CPU cooler. Comes in at just shy of $5,000 And that's just the parts. Don't forget the M1 Ultra will use less electrical power too.
- ajconway 5y agoDon't forget that any of the M1-family chips are absolutely crushing the competition in single-core performance.
- orangecat 5y agoEh, not so much today. M1, Alder Lake, and Zen 3 are all pretty close in single core performance. Of course M1 easily wins in power efficiency.