On December 28th White Lands MetalRT GPU 2:50:38 / Metal GPU 2:34:50
If you're curious about how your hardware performs compared to PC GPUs, TechGage has run a couple of tests to compare desktop PC GPU performance in EEVEE and viewport.
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Hopefully it would work as an eGPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure as well. It would also be great if someone made a TB enclosure with PCIe tunneling, so you could connect it over two TB4 cables for double the bandwidth.
Honestly I do not curious about PC GPU's. I have a PC which has got RTX 3070 side by side with MS Ultra. In real world workloads these benchmarks do not mean anything. Some scenes 3070 delivers 3 times faster, but sometimes it did not ( also there is VRAM issue even if you have 24 GB GPU Memory with 64 GB RAM, for complex simulations even 24 GB GPU memory is not working well ). Here as an example which I had yesterday. On my PC C4D stops working. There is no particular reason, it was fine last time I rendered out a scene last week. But now it won't open, start up screen loads and noting happens further. I wrote to Maxon and send them crash reports yesterday, uninstall and reinstall did not work also. There is no response from Maxon untill now and I can not use PC anymore. I loose 1 day which is critical while there is a deadline. I will try to fix C4D issue on my PC later today but I m not optimistic at all. Long story short, I am not sure about faster PC is better overall. A 3070 PC on Blender final render times sometimes 3x faster, for some complex scenes not too much shorter and also it is not reliable, it varies even frame by frame also crashes more than usual.If you're curious about how your hardware performs compared to PC GPUs, TechGage has run a couple of tests to compare desktop PC GPU performance in EEVEE and viewport.
Blender 3.4 Performance Deep-dive: Cycles, Eevee & Viewport
Blender 3.4 released just a few weeks ago, and as usual, we couldn't wait long before jumping in and exploring its performance with current GPUs from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA. With 22 graphics cards and six Cycles and Eevee projects in-hand for rendering and viewport testing, let's find out which...
I tried with White Lands Scene, results are hereIf you're curious about how your hardware performs compared to PC GPUs, TechGage has run a couple of tests to compare desktop PC GPU performance in EEVEE and viewport.
Blender 3.4 Performance Deep-dive: Cycles, Eevee & Viewport
Blender 3.4 released just a few weeks ago, and as usual, we couldn't wait long before jumping in and exploring its performance with current GPUs from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA. With 22 graphics cards and six Cycles and Eevee projects in-hand for rendering and viewport testing, let's find out which...
I compare MS Ultra and 3070 PC ZBrush Redshift render on Zbrush,
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I wonder if Apple will continue optimizing for M1 SoCs since the M2 is out. Will M2 optimizations work on M1 units?It's amazing how fast Apple is moving. Blender optimizations for the latest M2 SoCs have already started.
Cycles: Occupancy tuning for new higher end M2 machines · 08b3426df9
This patch adds occupancy tuning for the newly announced high-end M2 machines, giving 10-15% render speedup over a pre-tuned build. Reviewed By: brecht Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17037
I think this might have to to with the bigger TLB as some people like maxtech think. So it would not do anything for M1 machines.
I find it odd that Apple has different parameters for M2 Pro/Max, but not for M1 Pro/Max/Ultra.
Not necessarily the M1 chips might all have the same limitations GPU wise.
Don't trust anything from maxtech, his main purpose is not to be informative but to generate the more traffic/engagement/likes/subscrtiptions as possible in order to get more income.
It seems that M2 GPU scales better in Blender.
SoC family | Number of GPU cores | Blender Score |
M2 | 38 | 1515 |
M1 | 64 | 1483 |
M1 | 48 | 1307 |
M1 | 32 | 863 |
M2 | 19 | 766 |
M1 | 24 | 722 |
M1 | 16 | 435 |
M1 | 14 | 408 |
M2 | 10 | 334 |
M2 | 8 | 293 |
M1 | 8 | 242 |
Thanks for this data, its look like next generation Ultra/MacPro could be really powerful if any software build up on right terms. I can say C4D/Redshift implementation not bad at all right now on AS M1. Also VRay works well with AS M1.
I would not go into too much detail because some of these points for the M2 SoC family represent only a benchmark, so a larger sample could shift the points and show a different graph.
Looks like this x2 performance gain only at Blender right now. In Redshift M2 GPU cores does not behave like Blender. Maybe there will be an upgrade and Redshift will adapt to M2 better in the future.
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