I was first shocked to encounter hardware incompatibilities in 2021. I had my first contact with the Apple M1 when one of my course students raised an issue that the build doesn't pass on Apple's new flagship laptop. Better even than desktop computers.It's been almost a year since I've bought the MacBook Pro M1 ( arm64 processor) for my daily Java development as a freelance consultant.

For some tasks, the new MacBook Pros will be the best graphics processor on the market. It will be interesting to see how NVIDIA and AMD rise to the challenge.Īlso note the 64 GB of vRam is unheard of in the GPU industry for pro consumer products. That one could very well be the most disruptive processor to hit the market. Not only does this mean that the best laptop you can buy today at any price is now a MacBook Pro it also means that there is considerable performance head room for the Mac Pro to use with a full powered M2 Pro Max GPU. The one area where the M1 Pro and Max are way ahead of anything else is in the fact that they are integrated GPUs with discrete GPU performance and also their power demand and heat generation are far lower. Apple is likely working on hardware ray tracing as evidenced by the design of the SDK they released this year which closely matches that of NVIDIA's.

A minor concern is that the Apple Silicon GPUs currently lack hardware ray tracing which is at least five times faster than software ray tracing on a GPU.

Not only are the CPUs among the best in computer the market, the GPUs are the best in the laptop market for most tasks of professional users. The M1 Pro and M1 Max are extremely impressive processors. OutdoorAppDeveloper said about 1 year ago

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