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> Apple will happily do ML for hours on end ON BATTERY At 1/10th of the speed...

• traceroute66 4y ago
  > At 1/10th of the speed... Yawn. As has already been clearly explained numerous times in this discussion, e.g. @ribit[1] below, there is no throttling on Apple Silicon when running on battery. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34159456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34159456
  • bitL 4y ago
    It's not about throttling, it's about mobile 3080Ti vs M1 GPU performance. M1 hits at around GTX1650 for Deep Learning workloads in GPU benchmarks.
  • TeMPOraL 4y ago
    > there is no throttling on Apple Silicon when running on battery ... yet. The computational demand of typical work will increase to eat up the extra capacity, as it always does - and the only way for a laptop to handle the same workload plugged or unplugged is to cap its plugged-in performance.