M1 Max vs 5600x, RTX 3090 benchmarks

[senttoschool]

Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

Understanding the Hardware Capabilities of Apple's flagship SOC

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Summary vs stock Ryzen 5600x:

• Matrix Multiplication: 2x faster
• Numpy functions: Some wins to M1 Max, some to 5600x
• General python performance: 1.7x faster
• SpaCy NLP models: 1.25x faster
• Pandas: 1.51x faster

GPU:

• GPU Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) Performance: 8 TFLOPs
• Perf/watt for training on par with RTX 3090

Memory bandwidth:

• M1 Max CPU gets up to 200 gb/s bandwidth vs ~40 gb/s for 5600x
• GPU used up to 330 gb/s
• CPU & GPU combined used 360 gb/s

Package Power:

• Idle: ~2W
• YouTube video on Google Chrome: ~3W
• MS Teams (Rosetta app), call with background blur: ~10W
• Package power seems to have a ~92W hard limit
• Fans hardly spin up from zero-RPM

Components Power:

• CPU seems to consume up to 40W max
• GPU seems to consume up to 60W max, usually 40-50W during benchmarks
• ANE seems to consume no more than 8W max, usually much lower (2-4W during the ResNet benchmarks)

 

[Daniel K Colson]

I already ordered the Ryzen 5600 processor but am really confused to pick which motherboard I should consider from this of mobos https://www.neogamr.net/best-motherboard-for-ryzen-5-5600x/ I don't know about the most efficient motherboards but really relying on this list let's see how it goes.

I will surely go for the benchmarks as well after completing my full PC setup.

Till then, great work!

 

[Daniel K Colson]

Missed that I've bought the RTX 3090 ASUS Rog STRIX as well.