Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip.

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    4 days ago

    I mean, sure, but largely GPU-based TOPS isn’t that good a comparison with a CPU+GPU mixture. Most tasks can’t be parallelized that well, so comparing TOPS between an APU and a TPU/GPU is not apples to apples (heh).

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      3 days ago

      Agreed, but my point is that stating “x-core CPU, y-core GPU, z-core NPU”, is basically non-information.

      • CPUs run general logical processing
      • GPUs run integer/float matrices
      • NPUs run minimal effort matrices for inference

      I’d like to see the TOPS for each of those, instead of a “core count” that tells me nothing about actual performance. Even the TOPS are orientative… but would be a good start.