It's fast and super power efficient, but it's mostly on par with mid-range 8-core AMD desktop CPUs from 2020.
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Compared to modern AMD mobile parts, it's still faster but not by leaps and bounds.īut I agree that the M1 hype may be getting a little out of hand. Compared to those older CPUs, the M1 Max is a huge leap forward.
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People in the Mac world (excluding hackintosh) were stuck on relatively outdated x86-64 CPUs. Apple really dragged their feet on updating the old Intel Macs before the transition.
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No matter how you look at it, that's impressive.Ģ. It provides mid-range desktop performance in a laptop form factor with mostly fanless operation. It’s a confusing chart even by PR standards.> I just can't figure out what I'm missing on the "M1 is so fast" side of things.ġ. This all seems to indicate the line for Apple’s M1 Ultra stops on the chart where the chip itself is “at its peak.” So it stopped the RTX 3090 line at the same spot, but the Nvidia GPU’s line could keep going even higher. To be fair to Apple though, the M1 Ultra was the fastest in Premiere Pro. YouTuber Dave Lee found similar results in his tests as well, with the Nvidia GPUs destroying the M1 Ultra in Blender. Ars Technica’s full battery of testing showed similar results, and they concluded it’s roughly equal to an RTX 3070. “But The Verge only ran a few benchmarks,” you say. So where did Apple come up with the numbers for its chart? We have no idea, as the footnotes on the product page only state, “Performance measured using select industry‑standard benchmarks.”
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However, in Geekbench’s compute test, The RTX 3090-equipped PC more than doubled the M1 Ultra’s scores, both in Metal and OpenCL. “Of course Apple will suck at gaming,” you say. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the RTX 3090 reached 142 fps at 4K compared to the Ultra’s 108 fps. In The Verge’s testing, the RTX 3090 annihilated the M1 Ultra, both in gaming and compute benchmarks.
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Now, what Apple is saying here might be partly true, but it’s not the whole story. The quote from Apple is, “At its peak, M1 Ultra delivers faster performance than the highest-end GPU available while using 200 watts less power.”Īs with CPUs, Apple did not disclose its test criteria. In the chart, shown below, Apple claimed the M1 Ultra offered more performance than an RTX 3090, while using 200w less power. The charts were reminiscent of the kind we see from tech companies that show “relative performance” and then vague numbers like “1.5x.” Particularly notable were its comparisons to a “Highest-end discrete GPU,” which it noted was the RTX 3090 in the footnotes. Notably missing was the actual tests it performed to arrive at its conclusions. Now, we hope you are sitting down, because it turns out its charts weren’t telling the whole story.Īs we explained in our primer on the chip when it launched, when Apple displayed its performance charts it left out a few key details. When Apple unveiled it at its Peek Performance event recently, it included several charts to demonstrate its prowess. Its new flagship silicon fuses two M1 Max chips into a single component with “Ultrafusion” technology, and powers the new Mac Studio. Apple recently unveiled its fastest SoC yet: the M1 Ultra.