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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 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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andy_threos_io ◴[12 Nov 20 04:34 UTC] No.25066484[source]▶
Can somebody explain how is M1 going to work on larger GPU tasks (rendering, encoding etc) with it's memory bandwidth M1 total memory bandwidth is 68.2 GB/s (128 bit LPDDR4x-4267)

AMD Radeon Pro 5600m memory bandwidth is 394.2 GB/s (2048 bit HBM2)

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-5600m.c3612

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1. PragmaticPulp ◴[12 Nov 20 04:46 UTC] No.25066548[source]▶
You can buy an entire M1-based Mac Mini for the price of the 5600M upgrade cost over a base MacBook Pro (5600M is a $700 upgrade over base configuration).

It's an apples and oranges comparison. The M1 GPU is an integrated solution targeted at the cheapest Macs. The 5600M is external GPU targeted at $4000+ top of the line Macs.

There's no reason that higher end Apple silicon machines can't also use external GPUs like the 5600M (after development, of course).