tipoo

StrangeDays said:

tipoo said:

Right in the graphic above where the article says it's fanless, there's a clear fan in the graphic  

So clear I don’t even see it. Can you circle the fan, please?

Go to 1:54 here and it's brighter as it flys in. Upper left corner. 






It's that metal disk like this one 





Edit: Here, for the lazy 

Going to guess that impressive Photoshop demonstration was running on the 6GB one then, which most people won't get. Photoshop can chew through RAM. 

" An Apple-designed 7-core GPU is said to be twice as powerful as the 12-core GPU in the A10X Fusion. "

FWIW, Apple merged the number of ALUs in two old cores into one, so the 7 core is worth 14 old cores + architecture improvements. 


I always hated the word "core" for GPUs, just list the number of shaders/ALUs, Core is an arbitrary grouping of them not comparable across architectures. 

Mike Wuerthele said:

tipoo said:

Tell me more about how the stacking works. If I push a job from Xcode to them, does it split the load between all of them, or does one take over one task, the next takes over the next task in a queue, etc?

I'd imagine even TB3 bandwidth isn't enough for wanting to do main memory accesses across a such stack. 

No.

Apple demonstrated distributing an embarrassingly parallel rendering job across 10gig ethernet with a compatible app. There is no fancy interlink, there is no auto-load sharing or Grand Central extension. This is all in software, and not for all tasks.

I wasn't thinking anything was automagic as most software doesn't target such a setup, but specifically, if Xcode would be running integrations parallel across all the Minis, or one programmers would run just on one, the next batched job would run on the next, etc. 

Thought so, afaik there's no U series 8th gen parts with two cores, so they had to have stepped down. 

It keeps a fan though, so it should have much better sustained performance than the 12" Macbook...I wonder if the 12" is just going to die now, because the two are too close in price while this beats it on function now.