Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple makes my brain hurt… – Peek Performance Event”.
You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like And it is chonky. Yeah. Kind of reminds me of a stubby G4 Cube.. The Mac studio and matching studio display are the two latest announcements out of Apple and of everything they announced today. They’Re easily the most exciting, both powered by Apple Silicon they’re, set to usher in a new era, performance for apple enthusiasts, but the way Apple’s gone about this makes things so much more complicated, unlike our sponsor Ridge, wallet., Thanks to Ridge wallet for sponsoring today’s video.
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The Mac pro would become when apple started, the transition to Apple Silicon, an entirely unexpandable design, with fully solder components in a Mac mini enclosure that decided to make a little taller than usual cooled by two beefy fans that pull air up through the bottom of the Chassis and out to the rear, grill something Apple says, is nearly silent. There’S actually a lot going for this design.. For starters, you get 10 gigabit ethernet as standard.. Thank you Apple.. Now the rest of the rear IO is rearranged but looks basically the same as the Intel Mac mini with a high impedance pro audio output. That, I suspect, is the same as on the new MacBook pros turn it around, however, and you’ll see that Apple has finally acquiesced added front facing connectors two USB type C: 10 gigabit ports and an SDX C reader, while support from a brand new SD express format.
Would’Ve been nice to see as a future proofing measure what we’re getting tracks with the larger MacBook pros.. If you pick up an M1 ultra equipped max studio, those types C, ports up front turn into Thunderbolt ports, wait M1, ultra Yeah turns out Apple’s been holding out on us and their M1 max chips had an unused interconnect called ultra fusion that allows for a chip Style connection between two M1 maxes to make up an M1 ultra. The effective result is a single SOC as far as software is concerned and gives a metric bug, load of CPU and GPU cores double the already very impressive media engine on the M1 max and twice the maximum memory capacity at 800 gigabytes per second, that is faster Memory than the GDR 6X that is used on Avid RTX, 3080 and 3090.. That is pretty amazing and even more amazing, as the memory itself isn’t even clocked. Faster. There’s just that many more channels to work with..
If you believe what Apple has to say, the M1 ultra is up to 60 % faster than the Mac pro equipped with 28 Zion, W cores and 80 % faster than that machine’s fastest GPU, the Radeon W6900X.. They still sell those by the way something about those claims, though it doesn’t really pass. The sniff test. Part of that claim is that it’s also 90 % faster than a 16 core desktop CPU, while drawing a hundred Watts less power.
You might think that’s referring to the only current 16 core desktop CPU, the rise in 95950X, but in fact, they’re talking about the core i9-12900K, which is an eight plus eight core CPU, with performance and efficiency cores much like Apple Silicon.. What’S more Max Turbo Power on the 12900K is 241 Watts., So we can surmise based on Apple’s own data, that the M1 ultra draws around 140 Watts, which is still a lot of Watts.. The 12900K is TDP at base. Clock is 125 Watts and I can guarantee you.
M1 ultra doesn’t draw just 25 Watts, but that’s the CPU 128 gigs of unified memory offers an unprecedented amount of potential VERA to the GPU. Apple is right in that the biggest workstation card on the market. Right now, the RTX A6000 caps out a meager 48 gigs. Sure you can connect multiple as six thousands together via NVlink, but having that much memory in a single package is a significant feather in Apple’s cap.
They’re. Also making some interesting claims about beating the highest end. Discrete GPU, while also using 200 Watts less power, though the footnote says they’re talking about the RTX 3090 using select industry standard benchmarks.. So take from that, what you will I expect performance will be decent either way, but it it’s very possible.
This specific claim leans on the media engine, as Apple has done in the past and they’re not talking about raw compute performance.. I’D like to be wrong. Though., Speaking of the doubled up media engine is now capable of running 18. Simultaneous 8K ProRes 422 streams..
So it really does sound like an ideal workstation for most professionals, especially as software support comes online, like with blender 3.1 you’ll, be able to make use of it too up to four pro display XDR and a 4K HDMI device simultaneously. That is more battle stations. Certainly more pixels than Apple has ever officially supported. Internal storage doesn’t look expandable, however, So you’ll need to add over $ 2,000 for 8 terabytes. If you don’t want external storage, a fact made worse by recent revelations that Apple’s SSD performance isn’t as good as they claim it, is. They’re, cheating and in the process putting data at risk if an unexpected shutdown occurs. The onboard battery in a MacBook makes this a non-issue but on a stationary machine plugged into wall power. Well make sure that you combine the Mac studio with a battery.
Backup. That’ll add to the already high price tag for the M1 ultra variant. But if you take Apple at their word, it’s the most powerful machine you can buy for the money. Get subscribed, because we are definitely putting that claim to the test..
You might also want to combine the Mac studio with a new studio. Display. Apple certainly wants you to. The panel itself seems suspiciously similar to the existing LG UltraFine 5K, with a slight bump and peak brightness and 10 gig type C ports instead of 5 gig.. It even has similar power delivery capabilities to the recent models, so it seems like a bit of a cop out until you get under the hood.
Ye from lttstore.com. Got it in there. What makes the studio display special aside from the aluminum and glass construction is the A13 bionic chip powering a plethora of onboard goodies.? It’S got a very similar speaker array on paper to the 24 inch M1 iMac, complete with special audio, a three-mic array, presumably with noise suppression and an integrated 12 megapixel FaceTime camera capable of center stage, which means you can finally use center stage on a Mac.
Like the one place, it makes a lot of sense, not to mention the A13 provides the image signal. Processing we’ve come to expect from Apple Silicon.. That means that the Mac itself doesn’t need to do any of the work, freeing up the neural engine for other tasks.. It even makes these AI features usable on Intel max as old as 2016.. Now the studio display XDR comes with three mounting options: a 30 degree tilt-adjustable stand a pro display, XDR like stand, except without rotation support and an ugly VESA mount. Although it looks like you need to choose what you want out of the factory, because, unlike the pro display XDR there, isn’t a user accessible mounting mechanism on the display itself., Thankfully, the VESA mount and tilt adjustable stand are options that don’t add to the already lofty 1599 price tag, but the tilt and height adjustable stand costs an extra 400 bucks. I guess rotation is a $ 600 value. Now it’s worth mentioning that the UltraFine 5K is $ 300 cheaper and it’s already priced $ 300 higher than the old Thunderbolt displays were.
I can’t win’em all I guess, but hey you’ve got the option of buying color matched silver and black peripherals., So it’s not all bad. Whatever the rest of the event was pretty unimpressive. We got a spec bump for the iPad air now powered by the M1 SOC with 8 gigs of Ram and rocking a 12 megapixel front camera with central stage.. It’S got 5G support now and it comes in new colors.. I don’t really know what else to say here: they’re comparing it to a similarly priced laptop, and while I don’t disagree that for a layperson, it’s probably a better experience. It’S really not the same thing unless and until they bring Mac OS to the iPad, which they stubbornly refuse to do. The other specs as much as they talked about them, are the same with the exception of the type C port, which is now 10 gigabits per.
Second, rather than 5., It’s a little less disappointing than the iPhone SE, and I know that’s going to be a hot take but hear me out. The price is going up and all we’re getting is the A 15 bionic SOC a few hours better battery life, ceramic shield and 5G.. The rest is exactly the same right down to the iPhone eight and star chassis..
Now, to be clear, I wasn’t expecting Apple to reinvent the wheel here.. I understand that things are getting more expensive and glad this form factor is still available, but it would’ve been nice to see MagSafe come to the SE by Apple’s own admission. This is going to be many people’s first foray into iPhone and MagSafe is becoming a big part of the ecosystem. I might be giving Apple a harder time over this than I should be, but I I feel it’s a missed opportunity, particularly given how long SE models have traditionally stayed in market., And that is basically all they talked about outside of baseball and apple TV plus, and A new green color option for the iPhone 13 and 13 pro.. There are a few things we did pick up on though.. First, they came out and said that the Mac studio is not the Apple Silicon refreshed the Mac Pro, so that’s still on the horizon.. Second, they said that the Mac pro was the final Mac to make the transition and the 27 inch iMac like the iMac pro, is now missing from Apple’s product pages.. In fact, if you type 27 into the URL bar to try and force it you’re redirected to the 24 inch pages set, My guess is the M1 max iMac studio is taking the place of the 27 inch, which makes sense looking at the performance comparisons, I get It just feels strange for apple to discontinue a long standing skew like that with no fanfare. You know, speaking of bailing with no fanfare, we’ll have all this stuff linked below and we are gon na be clicking on those links ourselves cause. We’Ve got a lot of apple hardware to purchase., So I’d better get cracking on this segue to our sponsor ting mobile..
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