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I know others would do it differently, but for me compiling speed was more important than low price or expandability so my choice was between M2 Max on a MacBoo
by evanmoran 4y ago
I know others would do it differently, but for me compiling speed was more important than low price or expandability so my choice was between M2 Max on a MacBook Pro and a M1 Ultra on a Mac Studio.
The profiling indicated those quite were close in performance so I went with the laptop. My main compromise was to choose 14in as it’s plugged into a monitor most of time so I could optimize for travel more than a big screen when the monitor isn’t there.
In the end I’m super happy with it. The M2 Max is a monster for compiling and is probably 5x faster for builds than my previous Intel-based MacBook Pro
- brundolf 4y agoMy understanding is the Max/Ultra are mainly about increased GPU performance. Did you compare those against the M2 Pro beforehand?
- evanmoran 4y agoYes, they have the same cores but the memory bandwidth is double the speed: “M2 Pro’s memory maxes out at 32GB, but the M2 Max can handle as much as 96GB. And memory bandwidth on the M2 Max is double that on the M2 Pro”. You can see here the M2 Pro got an 80 benchmark and the M2 Max, the line above the commit, got a 72 (arbitrary numbers, for sure, but a real difference!): https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark/pull/393/commits/c795347185aab404367a2375634432a977b7711b https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark/pull/393/comm...