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I had one of those behemoth AMD dozen-core CPU's with 64gb of RAM, in a desktop. My basic M1 blows it out of the water in terms of how fast it feels. Some work

I had one of those behemoth AMD dozen-core CPU's with 64gb of RAM, in a desktop. My basic M1 blows it out of the water in terms of how fast it feels. Some workloads are obviously faster on the big PC, but I haven't been this excited about a CPU since the Pentium 1.

nordsieck 4y ago
I just really appreciate how quiet it runs. I basically never hear the fan, and I remember having to pin the fan in my old Macbook to max to force it to adequately cool the machine.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  > pin the fan in my old Macbook to max At the office we all joked that the MBPs were preparing to take off.
bryanlarsen 4y ago
The M1 has a lot more transistors per core than the AMD, so which is the behemoth?
- FredPret 4y ago
  The one that: - costs more - plugs into the wall - cannot easily be moved - sounds like a helicopter!
  - pdimitar 4y ago
    Is cooling the 3990X really that noisy?
    - FredPret 4y ago
      I have a lower model but yes, it’s super annoying
15155 4y ago
I have a 3990X + 256GB RAM workstation with NVME drives. My M1 Max MBPs absolutely do not "feel as fast" - but definitely feel proportionately faster for the cost.
- FredPret 4y ago
  That's quite the workstation! I use my laptop as a thin client and have compute jobs running on the PC, which is now a Linux server. Best of both worlds I think.
  - rbanffy 4y ago
    > I use my laptop as a thin client and have compute jobs running on the PC Same arrangement as here. I wish I could transparently overflow to cloud when the local server gets bogged down by my demands.
  - 15155 4y ago
    I use my M1 Max MBP as a thin client, incidentally. I have XRDP setup, but primarily use the machine heedlessly.
bdittmer 4y ago
My personal macOS "machine" is a VM running on a supermicro threadripper pro board (along with a Linux desktop VM + random LXC/VMs). The macOS VM is significantly faster than my M1 Pro work system. I should run some benchmarks.

nordsieck 4y ago

I just really appreciate how quiet it runs. I basically never hear the fan, and I remember having to pin the fan in my old Macbook to max to force it to adequately cool the machine.

rbanffy 4y ago
> pin the fan in my old Macbook to max At the office we all joked that the MBPs were preparing to take off.

bryanlarsen 4y ago

The M1 has a lot more transistors per core than the AMD, so which is the behemoth?

FredPret 4y ago
The one that: - costs more - plugs into the wall - cannot easily be moved - sounds like a helicopter!
- pdimitar 4y ago
  Is cooling the 3990X really that noisy?
  - FredPret 4y ago
    I have a lower model but yes, it’s super annoying

15155 4y ago

I have a 3990X + 256GB RAM workstation with NVME drives. My M1 Max MBPs absolutely do not "feel as fast" - but definitely feel proportionately faster for the cost.

FredPret 4y ago
That's quite the workstation! I use my laptop as a thin client and have compute jobs running on the PC, which is now a Linux server. Best of both worlds I think.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  > I use my laptop as a thin client and have compute jobs running on the PC Same arrangement as here. I wish I could transparently overflow to cloud when the local server gets bogged down by my demands.
- 15155 4y ago
  I use my M1 Max MBP as a thin client, incidentally. I have XRDP setup, but primarily use the machine heedlessly.

bdittmer 4y ago

My personal macOS "machine" is a VM running on a supermicro threadripper pro board (along with a Linux desktop VM + random LXC/VMs). The macOS VM is significantly faster than my M1 Pro work system. I should run some benchmarks.