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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 4 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.614s | source
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cercatrova ◴[12 Nov 20 02:17 UTC] No.25065675[source]▶
That's true, but some people need the larger screen and discrete GPU. I personally run bootcamp Windows all the time (for development as well as gaming with an eGPU) and I just run macOS for compiling my iOS apps. ARM Macs won't be able to use an eGPU it seems.
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1. my123 ◴[12 Nov 20 02:21 UTC] No.25065696[source]▶
Hardware is able to use an eGPU, but Apple decided to not compile the Radeon drivers for arm64 macOS at least for now.

Hopefully they'll reverse that decision. (or their GPUs in the higher end machines will have to be really good)

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2. sitharus ◴[12 Nov 20 02:29 UTC] No.25065756[source]▶
I'm assuming (for now) that discrete GPUs will still be featured in higher-end machines, so the Radeon drivers will appear over the next couple of years.
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3. tambourine_man ◴[12 Nov 20 02:48 UTC] No.25065857[source]▶
I think Apple is done supporting other people’s GPUs. Their graphics are pretty good, they can match NVidea and AMD with TSMC’s help if they want to.
4. ytch ◴[12 Nov 20 03:08 UTC] No.25065966[source]▶
There is still PCIe bus and Thunderbolt, technically it is still possible to connect NVIDIA/AMD GPU to Apple Silicon, but we need enough bus (x8 or x16) and drivers.