https://architosh.com/2020/11/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-macs-with-m1-chip/ architosh™ — a global-leading CAD / 3D / AEC industry technology publication and #1 source for Mac and iOS users in these segments. Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://architosh.com/2020/11/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-macs-with-m1-chip/#comment-56104 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:25:01 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=29627#comment-56104 A couple of notes on this article. We now know that the frequency max is 3.33GHz. Additional notes about the M1 chip can be found here at CPU Monkey. – https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1x

]]> https://architosh.com/2020/11/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-macs-with-m1-chip/#comment-56168 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 07:25:01 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=29627#comment-56168 A couple of notes on this article. We now know that the frequency max is 3.33GHz. Additional notes about the M1 chip can be found here at CPU Monkey. – https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1x

]]> https://architosh.com/2020/11/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-macs-with-m1-chip/#comment-55845 Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:13:39 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=29627#comment-55845 The M1 has hardware accelerated ARC for more efficient memory management of not just code but data objects. I think developers need to adopt more granular data management techniques to make use of it. Very few scenarios require multi-terabyte data objects to be RAM resident rather than streamed from the drive and those which do are probably poorly coded.
On GPUs; UMA iGPUs always did show better results than dGPUs for certain types of task (high data/low processing) so I’d expect to see Apple take a hybrid approach and launch their own dGPUs for low data/high processing workloads. For this site though, I’d like to see more software not just use Metal for brute force compute but for it’s advanced features such as Ray Intersection & Acceleration and for Apple to step up the GPUs to take this on – gut feeling is, they already have.

]]> https://architosh.com/2020/11/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-macs-with-m1-chip/#comment-56170 Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:13:39 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=29627#comment-56170 The M1 has hardware accelerated ARC for more efficient memory management of not just code but data objects. I think developers need to adopt more granular data management techniques to make use of it. Very few scenarios require multi-terabyte data objects to be RAM resident rather than streamed from the drive and those which do are probably poorly coded.
On GPUs; UMA iGPUs always did show better results than dGPUs for certain types of task (high data/low processing) so I’d expect to see Apple take a hybrid approach and launch their own dGPUs for low data/high processing workloads. For this site though, I’d like to see more software not just use Metal for brute force compute but for it’s advanced features such as Ray Intersection & Acceleration and for Apple to step up the GPUs to take this on – gut feeling is, they already have.

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