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Can someone help me out a bit here. Im looking closely at the M1 Pro or M1X possible upgrades for the Mac mini as the laptops are too pricey when pimped out. The bit Im having trouble with is the gfx cores, this would be used purely for photo editing, so Id go for as many as I can.
I can't find any comparisons between Apple vs Win when using a gfx acceleration on a Win box. Im thinking that even Apple with their 36 gfx cores would lose to a standard Nvidia/Amd card which have far more cores? Yes there is the code optimisation that Apple do, but on the widows side you have the brute horsepower with discrete gfx cards? Is this the case?
 
edgedemon said:
Can someone help me out a bit here. Im looking closely at the M1 Pro or M1X possible upgrades for the Mac mini as the laptops are too pricey when pimped out. The bit Im having trouble with is the gfx cores, this would be used purely for photo editing, so Id go for as many as I can.
I can't find any comparisons between Apple vs Win when using a gfx acceleration on a Win box. Im thinking that even Apple with their 36 gfx cores would lose to a standard Nvidia/Amd card which have far more cores? Yes there is the code optimisation that Apple do, but on the widows side you have the brute horsepower with discrete gfx cards? Is this the case?
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What do you use to edit photos? Stuff like Photoshop is more CPU than GPU intensive tbh
 
visibleman said:
Lack of bandwidth/connectivity on the SoC? :confused:
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Maybe. 2.1 requires 48Gb/s which is more than thunderbolt, so would have needed additional real estate assigned to it on the chip compared to an extra thunderbolt controller.

edgedemon said:
Can someone help me out a bit here. Im looking closely at the M1 Pro or M1X possible upgrades for the Mac mini as the laptops are too pricey when pimped out. The bit Im having trouble with is the gfx cores, this would be used purely for photo editing, so Id go for as many as I can.
I can't find any comparisons between Apple vs Win when using a gfx acceleration on a Win box. Im thinking that even Apple with their 36 gfx cores would lose to a standard Nvidia/Amd card which have far more cores? Yes there is the code optimisation that Apple do, but on the widows side you have the brute horsepower with discrete gfx cards? Is this the case?
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The core counts don't compare, Apple's GPU cores are much more sophisticated and complex than a CUDA core. As there are no M1 Pro/Max versions of Mac mini I'm not sure what you're looking for?
 
edgedemon said:
Can someone help me out a bit here. Im looking closely at the M1 Pro or M1X possible upgrades for the Mac mini as the laptops are too pricey when pimped out. The bit Im having trouble with is the gfx cores, this would be used purely for photo editing, so Id go for as many as I can.
I can't find any comparisons between Apple vs Win when using a gfx acceleration on a Win box. Im thinking that even Apple with their 36 gfx cores would lose to a standard Nvidia/Amd card which have far more cores? Yes there is the code optimisation that Apple do, but on the widows side you have the brute horsepower with discrete gfx cards? Is this the case?
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Agree with the others, I think you need to explain a bit more about the exact tasks you are looking to do and where your current bottlenecks are.
 
HACO said:
I expect that is coming at the end of next year with the new Mac Pro, with new huge chips.
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Could be earlier in the year and then the Mac Pro towards the end, that'll be the entire line done then and Intel Macs will be no more.
 
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i reckon all the laptop manufacturers wont be afraid adding notches to the screen and we will start seeing them in 2022.
 
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