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I was looking at an old video card I have, the GeForce 4600ti, and remembering thinking it was _huge_ at the time compared to my Voodoo 3 3000 before it. Then t
by some-guy 4y ago
I was looking at an old video card I have, the GeForce 4600ti, and remembering thinking it was _huge_ at the time compared to my Voodoo 3 3000 before it. Then the 8800gt seemed huge. Then the RX480. Then my current 3070.
At a certain point it's just stupid. My work laptop (Macbook Pro M1 Max) can do some very impressive stuff in such a small quiet package, and it just makes sense to go with a single large APU in the future.
- mjsweet 4y agoI know what you are saying, I have an M1 Pro MBP, and the thing is as quiet as a church mouse. It just seems to me like Apple (with the trashcan) painted themselves into a corner with thermals. Then Intel did the same by missing node generations and are just pumping more current (or voltage, heck I don't get electricity). Now Nvidia is doing the same now with an aging reference platform that needs an overhaul. I feel that it's simplistic to say that Apple has the right strategy with APU's, because gamers want faster and faster gaming performance whereas Apple are making custom silicon for very narrow use cases (namely video editing) and consumers perusing the internet and organising photos. Funnily enough, I do think that Apple have the right formula longer term for general purpose computing with APU's. It just that if Nvidia want to keep pumping out bigger and bigger GPU's while upping the voltage and heat then things need to change. The x86 platform needs a page one rewrite. EVGA opted out.
- dotnet00 4y agoWith how often this happens, I guess it really is impossible for Apple users to not act like their device is what everyone needs.