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"M1 Ultra Doesn't Beat Out Nvidia's RTX 3090 GPU Despite Apple's Charts"
Basically, Apple kinda lied. Not directly, of course, or they'd be sued, but enough that it's gone through the web as being "best out there", when it's nowhere near that.
Kinda pathetic, imho, when you have such a superb piece of equipment, why mislead people? I even thought about one, but not now, I need raw power over power consumption and don't like to be misled.
- Very well said. My thoughts exactly. What’s the point of even making the claim knowing it will be tested and disproved immediately?monospaced
- If anything they should make claims that are under spec and let people be pleased for once.monospaced
- Agreed. My guess is they know people will take their word as gospel and not research anything. Kinda like graf's post below.formed
- You missed the big small print: "GPU performance vs. power"********
- in comments: "RTX3090 energy cost per year including host machine: £981/year
M1 Ultra energy cost: £148/year
"******** - so yeah maybe technically a 3090 beats in raw performance, but when you get 80% of that for 10% power costs or something...who really wins?********
- not to mention the next gen M2 Ultra or whatever will beat nVidia, just like they did with Intel********
- oh and don't forget nvidia is run on windows, with cuda drivers and everything optimised while Macs have no optimisations (at least using Blender, Cinema4D)********
- and bottom line: not my job to do your research, I post what I find and I buy what I know.********
- Real world tests show the M1 getting spanked bad by the 3090 in rendering. It’s really not close.monospaced