Probably the only reason Apple hasn't dropped USB-A ports entirely are all the legacy devices like mice and USB sticks where performance is irrelevant.
I imagine they will at some point be the first to ship a PC without any USB-A ports, and when they do people will scream bloody murder and claim Apple is somehow going to profit from the move. Then a year or two later Windows PCs will start dropping USB-A ports as well.
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I did more testing with the same drive, this time with Amorphous Disk Mark.
2017 iMac with Kaby Lake Core i5-7600
USB-C - 1034 MB/s
USB-A - 460 MB/s
M1 Mac mini
USB-C - 813 MB/s
USB-A - 364 MB/s
TB4/USB4 hub attached to the M1 Mac mini
USB-C - 744 MB/s
USB-A - 737 MB/s
It's not a huge deal for me, but I can't say I'm impressed. It makes me wonder if the M2 Mac mini will even have USB-A ports. I'm guessing it might have 4 USB-C ports: 2 TB/USB4 ports + 2 USB4 ports.
The Mac laptops dropped USB-A even in the Intel years, and the Apple Silicon iMacs have dropped USB-A as well.
Honestly, given these results, I'd rather have 4 USB-C than 2 USB-C plus 2 USB-A. You can always convert USB-C to USB-A with a $3 dongle, but you can't convert 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps.
It sure seems like the bigger M2 is waiting for N3. If they are waiting for N3E then I expect we never see M2 Pro/Max and they skip directly to M3 Pro/Max shipping early/mid summer with the non-Pro M3 trailing them instead of leading them to market.
I'd rather Apple take their time to have a great chip worth shipping than trying to hit some kind of release schedule with minor incremental upgrades to show for it.
The M1 Max MBP I've got is still running strong and has become one of my favorite tech products of all time. Apple always says that all of their Macs are their best ever Mac, but they were probably right with that one.
If you've got a tough act to follow, no sense in rushing. They'd be better off waiting for the M3 at this point.
The M1 Max MBP I've got is still running strong and has become one of my favorite tech products of all time. Apple always says that all of their Macs are their best ever Mac, but they were probably right with that one.
If you've got a tough act to follow, no sense in rushing. They'd be better off waiting for the M3 at this point.
I don't know about Apple, but after the pricing backlash, I suspect NVIDIA will start to use smaller dies in the future. Gamers will see more modest gains, but lower prices. The GPU industry as a whole will have to go through this phase unless they can get chiplets working for games (> 1 GCD). At some point, prices can't go up anymore, and something will have to give. I suspect we are close to that point.
Apple, on the other hand, still has some room to run pricing up, so I don't expect them to worry for quite a while.
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Hope you're right, but this is NV we're talking about here. They already bagged on most of their 4000-series lineup in order to move excess 3000-series volume, preferring only to sell a few halo parts using their new uarch. That ought to tell us that NV would prefer to release nothing at all if faced with the prospect of being forced to lower prices.
They aren't designing GPUs for gamers, they are designing them for GPGPU and cost is not a big hurdle for that customer base. So long as they have this monster GPU they are selling for thousands a pop to that market, they might as well make a version for gamers who don't care about cost. There will still be cut down versions (or last year's model) available for those who are more cost sensitive.
Apple may have more pricing room with the Mac, but I don't think they can or at least don't want to run up pricing on the iPhone to support ever more expensive SoCs, unless those more expensive SoCs subsume other functions currently in separate chips like a cellular modem.
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Seems like Apple is indeed doing an M2 Max chip with 12 cores ..
wccftech.com
Apple M2 Max 12-Core CPU Benchmarks Show Up to 10% Single-Thread & 20% Multi-Thread Performance Jump Versus M1 Max
Benchmarks of Apple's upcoming M2 Max CPU which would feature 12 cores have leaked out and shows up to 20% improvement over M1 Max.
wccftech.com
Unless/until the AI people stop demanding the biggest dies they can get, there's no way that NW will stop making the biggest dies they can.
Whether those will then still be able to be priced at levels that gamers might want to afford, I have no idea.
NV Gaming GPU's revenue has dropped from all time high of $3.62B @ Q1 to $1.57B last quarter. The GPU market has been shrinking rapidly, so unless NV willing to drop their margin and set the prices aggressively, NV won't be growing like mining time.
Even hot sales of 4090 won't help much unless NV can produce 1 million cards.
Even hot sales of 4090 won't help much unless NV can produce 1 million cards.
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Also looks like 96GB RAM is confirmedSeems like Apple is indeed doing an M2 Max chip with 12 cores ..
Apple M2 Max 12-Core CPU Benchmarks Show Up to 10% Single-Thread & 20% Multi-Thread Performance Jump Versus M1 Max
Benchmarks of Apple's upcoming M2 Max CPU which would feature 12 cores have leaked out and shows up to 20% improvement over M1 Max.
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Also looks like the kind of small incremental upgrade, that Apple used to get from Intel.
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You really want Nvidia to go under, don't you?Even hot sales of 4090 won't help much unless NV can produce 1 million cards.
They are treading very carefully now. Don't want to repeat the mistake of overproducing the RTX 3000 cards.
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M1 Max 8+2 1785 / 12785Seems like Apple is indeed doing an M2 Max chip with 12 cores ..
Apple M2 Max 12-Core CPU Benchmarks Show Up to 10% Single-Thread & 20% Multi-Thread Performance Jump Versus M1 Max
Benchmarks of Apple's upcoming M2 Max CPU which would feature 12 cores have leaked out and shows up to 20% improvement over M1 Max.
If we are to assume the efficiency cores perform at about ~1/3 performance cores, then the performance is equivalent to 8.67 cores or 1475 points per performance core.
If M1 Max were extrapolated to 10+2, it would be 1785 / 15735.
If M1 Max were extrapolated to 8+4, it would be 1785 / 13768.
M2 Max single-core here is 1889. Extrapolating single-core points it would be 1561 points per performance core.
M2 Max 8+4 extrapolation is 1889 / 14570.
M2 Max 10+2 extrapolation is 1880 / 16652.
The score we got is 1889 / 14586.
I know this is almost the mathematical equivalent to handwaving, but if this Geekbench 5 M2 Max score is legit, that would imply an 8+4 configuration (not the 10+2 I had favoured).
Meanwhile, my iMac Core i5-7600 is 1119 / 3808 and my Mac mini M1 is 1768 / 7812.
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What do you mean? Apple doesn't seem to want to bin its desktop clock speeds, so that leaves core binning. I don't expect more than 12 cores total. If the eff. cores are doubled, then that just leaves 8 cores for perf. We don't expect a 10+4 part. People were expecting either 10+2 or else 8+4, and these numbers imply the latter.
Well, as mentioned, Apple doesn't bin on clock speed in their Apple Silicon desktops. I'm sure if they cranked the power they could get single-core up there, but that doesn't align with their marketing preferences.
That said, all bets are off with the Mac Pro.
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The Geekbench listing for the M2 Max looks reasonable, but truth be told, to me this seems early for a leak. Apple early appeared to say we won't see any new Macs until the new year, but typically see the leaked numbers much closer to the release.
Maybe this time it's to dampen expectations, so that a bunch of people will buy M1 Max MacBook Pros and Mac Studios this season instead of waiting 2 quarters?
The only time I remember Macs with exotic cooling was with the G5 Power Macs and that didn't end well. Lots of reports of leaks after a few years from their water cooling system. Anyhow, it seemed Apple was stuck in a hard place because IBM wasn't ramping up clock speeds fast enough.
Maybe this time it's to dampen expectations, so that a bunch of people will buy M1 Max MacBook Pros and Mac Studios this season instead of waiting 2 quarters?
No. Just beefy.
Mac Pro - Design
The all-new Mac Pro. Nothing extraneous, everything intentional, it’s a tool built to remove barriers. So pros can do their best work.
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The only time I remember Macs with exotic cooling was with the G5 Power Macs and that didn't end well. Lots of reports of leaks after a few years from their water cooling system. Anyhow, it seemed Apple was stuck in a hard place because IBM wasn't ramping up clock speeds fast enough.
Funny you happened to chose the Ryzen listing that was called a Mac Pro.
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