It's a great option if you have the hardware and want the speed. It's table stakes when other vendors like Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm and Microsoft have acceleration though. Raw-compute-for-the-buck has always been a blowout with Apple Silicon GPUs, and it's not any prettier now that 4nm 40XX series cards are available. Hell, an Intel A770 with 16gb of VRAM is still cheaper than adding 16gb of RAM to a Mac Mini.
It's good stuff, but pitched a bit hard with all the marketing. From where I'm standing, it looks like Apple is playing catch-up with their GPUs and acceleration tech.
It's a great option if you have the hardware and want the speed. It's table stakes when other vendors like Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm and Microsoft have acceleration though. Raw-compute-for-the-buck has always been a blowout with Apple Silicon GPUs, and it's not any prettier now that 4nm 40XX series cards are available. Hell, an Intel A770 with 16gb of VRAM is still cheaper than adding 16gb of RAM to a Mac Mini.
It's good stuff, but pitched a bit hard with all the marketing. From where I'm standing, it looks like Apple is playing catch-up with their GPUs and acceleration tech.
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