keithw

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.

If the new Mac Studio can reach the GB 6.0.3 Metal benchmark of my current iMac Pro with an eGPU, 192,834, then I'm all in. CPU performance of even the M1 Ultra was good enough for me...

If the new Mac Studio can reach the GB 6.0.3 Metal benchmark of my current iMac Pro with an eGPU, 192,834, then I'm all in.

flyingdp said:

It’s hard to believe that TSMC’s lawyers and accountants didn’t know and point this out to the C-suite before they committed to build in the US?

Of course they knew. The gambit, I'm sure, is to force the US to change the tax laws specifically for their situation.  My bet is they get their way somehow.

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 connection network or a new SOC. 

This simply isn't true. I'm getting very high GB6 Metal numbers (194703) with my eGPU on a 6 year-old iMac Pro, connected through a Thunderbolt 3 connection. The M2 Ultra MAY be faster than this with the on chip GPUs, but so far, the M1 Ultra is not.