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The question is what is the percentage of potential market for a specific product. If you are optimizing GPU code, that is a very different market from “all com
by Tagbert 5y ago
The question is what is the percentage of potential market for a specific product. If you are optimizing GPU code, that is a very different market from “all computers” or “all phones”. If the market depends on high performance GPUs, then the Ultra has potential to be a noticeable percentage of that market.
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- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoWell up until the M1 Ultra, almost no one was doing GPU intensive stuff on mac, since they didn't have a line with a decent gpu. As such, Apple is creating an issue for developers that only manifests on the $6000 version of their machine that requires rewriting your whole algorithm to work around.
- smoldesu 5y agoExactly. On top of that, Apple is still in the minority and refuses to support the Vulkan API they helped design. So, from a development standpoint, rewriting your software to support ~15% of your potential market isn't a very lucrative idea. Especially when the vast majority of those users will be running relatively incapable hardware, at least on the GPU side of things.
- coldtea 5y agoWell, this is already an improvement, the way the parent stated it: from "no Mac line with a decent gpu" to "only the $6000 version".