My M1 Mac (not even M1 Pro/Max) is quite easily the best computer I've ever owned, but I have zero need to proselytize and simply do not care what you or anyone else use. Intel is finally being forced to actually complete. Lots of options will appeal to different people. People will still buy all sorts of computers. Now that the tables have shifted slightly, I don't see why Mac users feel the need to crawl out of the woodwork and declare the game as changed, now that Prometheus gave them the gift of a laptop that doesn't throttle to hell. If we're here to talk smack about hardware superiority, this website would have been insufferable for the past decade, because there was quite literally a complete lack of professional dGPU Macs. I'd argue the market for Mac users and PC users has not radically shifted, just the hardware you're using. They're buying them as gaming devices, general-purpose machines and game development laptops. You could tell 90% of the people buying PCs with dGPUs about your 5nm GPU and next-gen power efficiency, but they won't care. It's wielding the insurmountable RTX 3080, and it's priced very competitively.īut I'm just going to tell it to you now so we don't make the same mistake we have for the past 10 years of computer hardware discussions: specs don't matter. The upcoming Thinkpad X1 Extreme is going to give it some stiff competition. But Apple has vastly more budget and much more opportunity for vertical integration.īoth companies have done impressive work the last few years. I think the M1 line is more impressive technically than Ryzen, given the very low TDPs.

AMD has managed to compete with and outrun Intel from the an initial position of an also-ran underdog. We should complement both AMD and Apple and be happy that we finally have serious competitors to Intel. But it is fantastic that we can have that kind of performance in a mobile device and still have many hours of battery life. I agree on the pricing (I also have a 5900X and a 5950X machine). The M1 Max is really in 5900X/5950X territory.

The M1 Max is even 26% faster than the 5950X on multi-threaded FP benchmarks (maybe it has two AMX units?). The 5950X is only 55% faster than the M1 Max on multi-threaded integer benchmarks. Except in benchmarks outside GeekBench it isn't.

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