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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on October 19, 2021, 10:27:53

Title: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX A5000 GPUs
Post by: Redaktion on October 19, 2021, 10:27:53
Apple also introduced the 16-inch MacBook Pro alongside the 14-inch MacBook Pro variant. Both devices share largely identical specifications, though the 16-inch variant offers a direct configuration with the M1 Max in addition to two M1 Pro options. Apple claims that a fully maxed-out MacBook Pro 16 outperforms laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX A5000 GPUs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-16-with-M1-Max-touted-to-outperform-laptops-powered-by-Quadro-RTX-6000-and-RTX-A5000-GPUs.573820.0.html
Title: Re: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX
Post by: LL on October 19, 2021, 17:08:02
If they only compared to Resolve that is a very limited comparison, do not even have any 3D.

Where is the comparison with Cinema 4D  Cinebench R23(CPU) and Redshift(GPU). Note that Cinema 4D was in presentation, i found it strange if a performance comparison was not shown.

Side note Blender 3.1(probably around March 2022) will have a Metal version. So the BMW27 benchmark can be tested for CPU and GPU and compared to the version for PCs.
Title: Re: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX
Post by: Tridents on October 19, 2021, 22:05:56
Quote from: LL on October 19, 2021, 17:08:02
If they only compared to Resolve that is a very limited comparison, do not even have any 3D.

Where is the comparison with Cinema 4D  Cinebench R23(CPU) and Redshift(GPU). Note that Cinema 4D was in presentation, i found it strange if a performance comparison was not shown.

Side note Blender 3.1(probably around March 2022) will have a Metal version. So the BMW27 benchmark can be tested for CPU and GPU and compared to the version for PCs.
In Apple's website they make a comparison between the new Macs and the older ones using Cinema 4D, Resolve, Photoshop, etc, etc. It won't answer all your questions but might give some idea.
Title: Re: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX
Post by: LL on October 20, 2021, 06:12:51
Thanks Tridents.
I'll be looking for independent benchmarks now.
Title: Re: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX
Post by: HashGuy on October 20, 2021, 23:20:26
My only GPU benchmark is hashrate. You either can mine or can't.
Title: Re: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX
Post by: Loki Rautio on October 21, 2021, 04:30:38
Given the lack of laptops that properly cool their Quadro graphics cards, I'd say that being "better than an A4000 laptop" is a pretty low bar. Will be interesting to see if it actually runs anything worthwhile at good framerates compared to similarly sized PC notebooks.
Title: Re: Apple MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max touted to outperform laptops powered by Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX
Post by: Vaidyanathan on October 22, 2021, 21:44:51
Quote from: Loki Rautio on October 21, 2021, 04:30:38
Given the lack of laptops that properly cool their Quadro graphics cards, I'd say that being "better than an A4000 laptop" is a pretty low bar. Will be interesting to see if it actually runs anything worthwhile at good framerates compared to similarly sized PC notebooks.
A working Windows bootcamp mode would be a perfect way to test games. But Apple does not seem like it will provide drivers to MS anytime soon.