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  • The new Apple Silicon Mac Pro badly misses the mark for most of the target market

    keithwkeithw
    Perhaps it's too early to write off the Mac Pro entirely. It's clearly a placeholder product. Here's a job description for a job Apple is currently trying to hire for:
    "As a GPU Design Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, low-power graphics IP that meets our performance, timing, and area goals. You will explore design trade-offs, while employing rigorous design principles. Additionally, you will be required to understand and contribute to cutting edge microarchitectural specifications, while designing best in class GPUs. To accomplish this, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in architecture, validation, modeling, and physical design."

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  • The new Apple Silicon Mac Pro badly misses the mark for most of the target market

    keithwkeithw
    Could you explain the statement "The reasons why for this are complex. It's not just about drivers -- Apple has decided that it didn't need a way for the Apple Silicon processor to talk to an external graphics card, at all, under any circumstances."?  If my 6-year-old Intel iMac Pro can talk to a graphics card over Thunderbolt 3, why can't an Apple Silicon-based Mac do the same?  I think it IS about drivers, and the fact that Apple doesn't want to work with either AMD or nVidia ever again. https://machow2.com/m1-mac-egpus/

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  • The new Apple Silicon Mac Pro badly misses the mark for most of the target market

    keithwkeithw
    I'm getting 192,834 on Geekbench 6.0.3 metal with my 2017 iMac Pro with a TB3-based Sonnettech eGPU with a Radeon RX 6900 XT.  It's disappointing that the M2 Ultra apparently can't even reach that number!
    muthuk_vanalingamlam92103williamlondonAlex1N9secondkox2FileMakerFellercurtis hannah

  • Apple Silicon Mac Pro does not support PCI-E Radeon video cards

    keithwkeithw
    Sonnettech has a complete line of PCIe/TB4 external chassis for PCIe cards.  This would allow the necessary I/O without investing in a Mac Pro.  I've been using a Sonnettech eGPU enclosure for many years with my 2107 iMac Pro.   It houses my AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, which (I believe,) still provides better Metal performance than even the highest spec M2 Ultra.  I guess we'll see with the benchmarks...
    watto_cobradarkvader

  • Mac Studio gets updated with powerful M2 Max and M2 Ultra processors

    keithwkeithw
    It will be very interesting to see the GPU benchmarks with the new M2 Ultra.  Regardless if you choose the Studio or the Mac Pro, there apparently will be NO discrete GPU options.
    williamlondon