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> the one I played with felt slower than the Mac Studio The Mac Studio is faster than the 2019 Mac Pro. https://www.macrumors.com/guide/mac-studio-vs-mac-pro-

by dijit 4y ago

> the one I played with felt slower than the Mac Studio The Mac Studio is faster than the 2019 Mac Pro. https://www.macrumors.com/guide/mac-studio-vs-mac-pro-buyers-guide/ https://www.macrumors.com/guide/mac-studio-vs-mac-pro-buyers... When the Mac Pro came out it was the fastest Mac that existed, but those Intel Chips were already dated and were being roundly beaten by AMD chips of the era. The "killer feature" was the encoding acceleration card, but a faster variant is available inside Apple Silicon. I'm not sure where the cut-off is, but I think the M1 Max (Not ultra) is also faster than the Mac Pro 2019.

rbanffy 4y ago
> The "killer feature" was the encoding acceleration card, but a faster variant is available inside Apple Silicon. It still can have 1.5 TB of RAM.
- dijit 4y ago
  I can't think of a workflow that would be better served on a local mac with 1.5TiB of ram, than a linux server somewhere else with that RAM. all the workflows I can conceive of right now would struggle to use more than 128G of RAM, but I am open to ideas.
  - rbanffy 4y ago
    > I can't think of a workflow that would be better served on a local mac with 1.5TiB of ram I can think of a few, but they all involve terabytes of data sitting on local storage. At the terabyte sizes, it starts to take more time to transfer the data to the cloud instance than to process it with a beefy workstation.