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Hardware / Re: New Mac Studios Coming
« on: 2025-03-13, 10:06:34 »Wait? You know we can't WAIT! ha. I know, but I like to wonder if things live up to the hype, not that Apple over-hypes anything (wink, wink). Seems that if anyone is in the market for one of these, and in particular coming from a much older machine, that the M4 Max would be the best bang for the buck. The M3 Ultra is two Max chips connected together, but their performance does not simply double because there are two CPUs. Back in the G5 days, two CPUs meant twice the speed.
I keep seeing that the M3 Ultra Studio can have an obscene amount of unified RAM and cores and large language model A.i. applications would benefit. I'm sure the extra cores would help 3D CPU rendering, but at such a crazy extra cost, not for me.
Solitaire will run at 240 fps so that will be nice too.
Hah yes, I completely understand :) I'm much the same when a new Threadripper or a Xeon (<- been a while) gets released. And then I'm incredibly disappointed to see just a single Cinebench run tested :D
Not to single out any of the reviewers but Tom's Hardware ran Blender tests so those can be indicative of the performance uplift number you can expect - ballpark numbers of course.
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/apple-mac-studio-early-2025-review
So unless I'm getting this wrong the 16 core M4 Max studio goes for around 2500$? If that is the case it might not be a bad deal for everyone that is on the Apple train?
I mean yes, any current gen 32 core Threadripper will be about 2.5x faster although more expensive (probably around 4000$ for the build)... And a 96 core Threadripper will probably be 4x+ faster but will cost a lot more (13000$ for a build)... But nonetheless having options in the lower / middle part of that budget segment is imho a good thing.