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This is my 2017 iMac Pro. While it's often stated that the graphics performance doesn't matter, this 5+ year old machine still beats ANY of the Metal benchmarks of M1 or M2-based Macs. Graphics performance matters! More and more photo apps use the…
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The ONLY reason I can think of to buy a Wintel laptop is to play games. I use both Wintel and Macs on a daily basis, and MacOS is better in every way. One of these days Intel will have to move to an ARM design, it's just a matter of time.
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9secondkox2 said: It’s not that apple can’t address GPUs not in the due, it’s that performance is lost when doing a pci-e type of setup. So they choose not to. Be interesting to see how they solve that with either a multiple m series SOC con…
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If there was some code in the MacOS 13.3 Beta release, this may be a bit more believable.
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Long-term there isn’t any reason for Apple to support third-party, GPUs, Nvidia, and AMD or any other third-party company, Apple has been there done that, and is just going to hold Apple back down the road, if Apple supports third-party cards in th…
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thadec said: So, there never has been any reason for Apple Silicon Macs not supporting discrete graphics via M.2, PCIE or Thunderbolt other than Apple simply not wanting to. Which was the same reason why Apple locked Nvidia out of the Mac e…
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It will be interesting to see if the developers can find any hints of new hardware coming in this Beta release.
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This would be very useful if it comes to pass! It would give 3D graphics users the "best of both worlds," SOC GPUs and discrete GPUs. My eGPU on my 6 year-old iMac Pro breathed new life into it. While its CPU performance isn't even up to the origi…
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The GB6 Metal GPU result with my AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT eGPU has gone up from 16335 in GB5.5 to 194703 in GB6. It would be interesting to know how those workloads have changed.
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Oh and one more thing- Apple, whatever you are going to do just DO IT and stop all of the useless speculation!
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I think Gurman is dead wrong. It makes no sense. Why would Apple spend the money to create the Studio only to kill it in a single product iteration? If they haven't sold enough Studios over the last year, that's one thing. Killing a product that …
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Any rumors as to when the Studio will be upgraded to M2 Max and M2 Ultra? I would guess it would have to be soon since I bet the M2 Pro Mac Mini has probably killed demand for the M1 Max version of the Studio.
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blastdoor said: Good comments discussion of GPU performance. In order for the Mac Pro to compete with 'pro' level Windows/Linux systems using high-end discrete GPUs, I wonder if Apple needs to either (1) continue to include high-end discret…
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The 2023(?) ASi "Mac Pro" must either be able to reach the 166,946 GB5 GPU results either with on-chip GPU cores or by a discrete graphics card like the existing Intel Mac Pro, otherwise, why bother to even release it?
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Now that the M2 Max is available, I can't envision anybody buying a Studio right now. Maybe the speculation that the Studio will be skipping the M2 generation and going directly to M3 may be accurate. It will be interesting to see what they upgra…
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This is what I'm getting with my 5 year old iMac Pro with an eGPU. If and until I can match this with a Mac Studio (or maybe a Pro,) I don't think I'll be upgrading. Of course, as others have pointed out, they could certainly port the Intel drivers…
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If I did the math right, the M2 Max over the M1 Max was 47.5% higher on "Metal." Hypothesizing equal improvements, we may get 139,500 out of the M2 Ultra in the Studio (whenever Apple decides to release it.) That's ALMOST as fast as I'm getting wit…
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How about the benchmark(s) for the M2 Max MBP.? That may be a more fair comparison against the M1 Max.
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It's sort of odd they didn't also update the Studio offerings. Perhaps they will skip the M2 and go directly to the M3 @ 3nm. It's entirely possible the M2 Max Macbook will be faster/more feature complete than any Studio other than the Ultra versio…
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Not to be ungrateful, but where are the Mac Studio updates with the M2 Pro, Max and Ultra options?