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  • Apple TV+ secures series adaptation of 1927 film 'Metropolis'

    gweedo said:
    I have little confidence in this trend to attempt to turn classics into shows given what they did to Foundation.
    yeah! Foundation was extremely disappointing... For all mankind is 100 times better 
    williamlondonRudeBoyRudyllama
  • Largest sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tim Cook's $99M pay

    rob53 said:
    ppietra said:
    Because a trillion dollar petroleum fund has the strong ethics to say no to income and wealth disparity.
    Actually it does! Take a good look at why the fund exists and how Norway is socially organized. 
    I'm not worried about Norway's citizens I'm concerned about trillion dollar petroleum companies polluting the earth.
    The fund is not an oil company!
    iHy
  • Largest sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tim Cook's $99M pay

    Because a trillion dollar petroleum fund has the strong ethics to say no to income and wealth disparity.
    Actually it does! Take a good look at why the fund exists and how Norway is socially organized. 
    Scot1dinoonecrowleyrundhvid
  • DaVinci Resolve now works up to five times faster on new MacBook Pro

    mknelson said:
    I don't recall which site it was off of (read on Flipboard) but I read an article over breakfast where they were benchmarking Premiere Pro and comparing to various PC configurations with discrete GPUs. They seemed impressed by the CPU performance, but underwhelmed by the GPU performance - although if you read it closely it wasn't far off the PC discrete GPU performance.

    DaVinci seems to have done a better job of optimizing for the M1/Metal combo.
    That was from tomshardware.
    I still don’t understand why they were disappointed about the GPU when it was able to almost match the performance of some of the most powerful Nvidia laptop graphics cards. And Apple didn’t even say that its GPU was the best one for a laptop, so they couldn’t exactly expect it to surpass everything out there.
    And another thing is that Premiere Pro is not exactly the most optimised application for the Mac. For years it has worked better on Windows.
    watto_cobrajony0
  • Apple's M1 Max GPU is at least 3x faster than M1, Metal benchmark shows

    KITA said:
    The Apple M1 scores ~18,000 in OpenCL (1) and ~20,000 in Metal (2) on Geekbench.

    The Macbook Pro with M1 Max 32 core scored ~60,000 in OpenCL (3) on Geekbench. The ~68,000 Metal score above is likely the 32 core version as well.

    The RTX 3080 scores much higher than 90,000. A 130W version of the RTX 3080 in a laptop scores ~120,000 in OpenCL (4) on Geekbench.

    Apple used a 165W version of the RTX 3080 in their comparison:


    This is an individual score so you shouldn’t use an average value as reference because averages are brought down by people running the benchmark while other things are also running.  Also the M1 score in that table is brought down because there is a version of the M1 with just 7 cores.
    A more regular OpenCL score should be around 19,500, and that means a ratio of 3.08 vs the M1 Max score,
    Also, M1 Pro OpenCL score is 38,400, and that means a ratio of 2. 
    These two results makes it extremely unlikely that the M1 Max score is for a 32-core GPU.
    watto_cobra