By: Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org), November 16, 2020 2:02 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on November 16, 2020 12:46 pm wrote:
> Against GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 560.
> Not exactly state of the art, but not exactly ridiculous.
>
> As far as I can tell, these cards are around let's say 75W.
> The state of the art is now about twice their performance at about 85W.
> So bottom line is Apple's iGPU at, what, 10W? is half the current state of the
> art for "mid-range, not insane power". Would that be a reasonable summary?
>
> My guess is that next year (beginning of Q2?) we get an 8-large core M1X, for the iMac and MBP/mini pro, with
> double the GPU resources, and so a credible match for the (reasonable power level) state of the art at ~20W.
>
> https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/16/m1-beats-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-and-radeon-rx-560/
>
>
The quoted Tflops for the Apple M1 GPU are 25% higher than for the Tiger Lake GPU, so I suppose that the M1 GPU has 1024 FP32 ALUs (compared to the 768 of Tiger Lake or the 512 of AMD Renoir) and it runs at about 1.3 GHz.
> Against GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 560.
> Not exactly state of the art, but not exactly ridiculous.
>
> As far as I can tell, these cards are around let's say 75W.
> The state of the art is now about twice their performance at about 85W.
> So bottom line is Apple's iGPU at, what, 10W? is half the current state of the
> art for "mid-range, not insane power". Would that be a reasonable summary?
>
> My guess is that next year (beginning of Q2?) we get an 8-large core M1X, for the iMac and MBP/mini pro, with
> double the GPU resources, and so a credible match for the (reasonable power level) state of the art at ~20W.
>
> https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/16/m1-beats-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-and-radeon-rx-560/
>
>
The quoted Tflops for the Apple M1 GPU are 25% higher than for the Tiger Lake GPU, so I suppose that the M1 GPU has 1024 FP32 ALUs (compared to the 768 of Tiger Lake or the 512 of AMD Renoir) and it runs at about 1.3 GHz.