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It's easy to outperform Apple Silicon on pure power, but what about efficiency & heat? (like FLOPS/watt or whatever). Does anything else come close yet?
by solardev 3y ago
It's easy to outperform Apple Silicon on pure power, but what about efficiency & heat? (like FLOPS/watt or whatever). Does anything else come close yet?
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoThat matters a lot in a laptop, but not so much in a 1U rack? Not that datacenters love heat, but the competition isn't extra hot, it's just hotter than Apple Silicon?
- solardev 3y agoI guess it depends on what you're doing with them? If you're running them 24/7 to train or model something, the energy costs might add up. Even if you're not, having more efficient chips might mean more data centers don't need as complex cooling equipment.
- ska 3y agoA 1U rack is a small machine, but a few hundred of them+ in a constrained space is a different story. At larger scales, moving electricity in and heat out are usually the defining factors.
- dzhiurgis 3y agoYou're quite right - 6800H TDP is 45W, M1 is 30W