GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 4d ago
The issue is that the moment you want to run the more capable models that won't fit in a single 5090's memory, performance falls off a cliff.
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by GeekyBear 5d ago
The M5 generation added tensor instructions to the GPU cores.
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by GeekyBear 5d ago
> What exactly the M7 improvements are who knows. > Apple's planned M7 Ultra chip is being designed to support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory and to push AI performance toward the class of Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators ht
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by GeekyBear 5d ago
The next Ultra, supposedly on deck in 2028: > Apple's planned M7 Ultra chip is being designed to support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory and to push AI performance toward the class of Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators, according t
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
"Some Guy" just doesn't cut it. We've got five generations of Apple's Media Engine shipping in M series chips. If things are as dire as you claim, one of the many hardware reviews in reputable publications over the
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
If your claim is true, you won't have any trouble finding reputable tech publications saying that the video output from Apple M series hardware is substandard in some way. I'll wait. I would recommend you find a floor plan for App
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
Samsung's chips use high end ARM stock cores, and are also ahead of Intel and AMD.
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
Nothing prevents a vendor from implementing a high quality hardware encoder, just as nothing prevents the creation of a low quality software encoder. Video editing is an area that Apple dominates because PCs become a laggy mess on complicat
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
> So basically, video encoding is bad show for Apple Apple has dedicated hardware for video decode and encode for several video formats. That's why the comparisons between PCs and Macs running video editing software favor the Macs s
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
An Nvidia GPU involves as much CUDA lock-in as Nvidia can manage, but it's also where the best performance is. People care about performance.
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
The M1 is about 1700 on Geekbench 7 single core.
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
Remember all those years when people claimed Apple chips were "cheating" on benchmarks because they had crypto instructions that x86 lacked? Apple chips don't have AVX-512. They do have media engines (that don't support
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
For context, Intel has yet to ship a core that scores over 3000 on the same test. AMD beats Intel, but only by a couple hundred points. Qualcomm beats them both.
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
The word was that they weren't going to ship systems with the M6 Pro, Max or Ultra. The M7 generation has updated the tensor instructions in the GPU cores and they want to ship that ASAP.
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by GeekyBear 7d ago
There are also leaks for the M5 Ultra & Base M6. M5 Ultra CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=parkdale_cpu&q=mac17%... M5 Ultra GPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=grand_gpu&q=mac
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by GeekyBear 9d ago
Then Chrome will download an additional 4 Gig AI file just for itself.
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by GeekyBear 10d ago
Figuring out how the hardware works and how to interface with it to submit work is a significant step all by itself.
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by GeekyBear 11d ago
> The good news is there are some places where things are just better across the board. In general, iOS 27 feels peppy. I know, we always talk about snappiness, but given the time Apple has spent on improving performance and removing bug
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by GeekyBear 11d ago
> The good news is there are some places where things are just better across the board. In general, iOS 27 feels peppy. I know, we always talk about snappiness, but given the time Apple has spent on improving performance and removing bug
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by GeekyBear 11d ago
That's certainly not what the reviews say: > I’ve been happily using the totally frosted look (slider all the way to the right) for a few weeks now. While I didn’t mind Liquid Glass as much as other folks, the frosted setting ensure
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by GeekyBear 11d ago
You can always read a review: > The promise of iOS 27 is that it’ll not only unlock new capabilities but also make your existing workflows smoother and quicker. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/ios-27-rev
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by GeekyBear 12d ago
It improves performance on the oldest iOS device that is supported.
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by GeekyBear 12d ago
> I wish they would improve the extension support in Safari. They added the ability to vibe code your own custom extensions in this version.
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by GeekyBear 12d ago
They literally give you a new slider to increase or reduce the Liquid Glass effect to align with your personal preferences.
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by GeekyBear 12d ago
I'm looking forward to trying out Safaris new ability to vibe code extensions that will modify websites to remove annoyances. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/08/27/build-safari-extens... For developer
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by GeekyBear 13d ago
How they spy on people isn't the issue. Spying on people without explicit consent (in a situation where you can say no without penalty) is the issue.
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by GeekyBear 14d ago
It's worth remembering that Apple is releasing a new framework (Core AI) this fall that goes beyond the Pytorch and Tensorflow workloads that the decade old Core ML framework allowed. > Core AI allows your app to use the latest mode
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by GeekyBear 15d ago
> As a general principle, as a user, I expect a file on one computer to be usable on another computer. As a general rule, I expect a file on an encrypted disk to be unreadable for anyone who lacks the encryption key(s). > if I need to
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by GeekyBear 15d ago
At that price, it's competing against a cluster of M5 Mac Studios, which we don't have test data for yet.
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by GeekyBear 17d ago
> new foldables are surprisingly strong along the spine Have you seen the video in question from two weeks ago? > GOOGLE MADE A MISTAKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUT3rUZGqLA&

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