The M2 Ultra Mac Pro is not competitive with the high end of the PC world in any category. In every aspect it is extremely compromised. That's, like Margot said, if you wanted to kill the Mac Pro, this is the type of machine you might put out. And for me personally, Apple sitting out and seeding the entire top end of the computing world is very disappointing to me.
- Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
- “Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
- Vision Pro
- New Macs
- 15” MacBook Air
- Mac Studio
- Mac Pro
- John Ternus on discrete GPUs in Macs
- Metal scores
- M1 Max: 108,363
- M1 Ultra: 150,644
- 1.3× M1 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
- M2 Max: 131,302
- M2 Ultra: 267,399
- 2× M2 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
- #5 fastest Metal score overall
- Top 3 are GPUs in a 2019 Mac Pro
- M2 Ultra vs. NVIDIA
- 4080: 16% higher fps
- 4090: 37% higher fps
- Non-game GPU performance
- Blender GPU scores
- M2 Ultra: 3,412
- NVIDIA 4090: 13,158 (3.8× faster)
- NVIDIA 3080: 6,205 (1.8× faster)
- NVIDIA 3060: 3,256 (costs $330)
- NVIDIA 3070: 3,396 (laptop GPU)
- CPU benchmark
- M2 Ultra vs. Intel & AMD
- Intel Xeon W9-3495X (56-core)
- Multi-core: 53,504 (2.8× faster)
- Intel Core i9-13900KS
- Single-core: 3,080 (39% faster)
- Multi-core: 21,665 (15% faster)
- Mac Pro PCIe lanes
- Neil Parfitt on the new Mac Pro
- Ternus & Joz acknowledge ATP shirt (❗)
- Gaming
- macOS 14 Sonoma
- Post-show: John’s special treat
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