MP All Models Mac Pro based Apple Sillicon will be a mistake and A16 confirmed it for me.

[handheldgames]

Apple Silicon 4K SSD write performance is abysmal. Sad to say, M2 appears to have no improvement over M1. Based on observations 4k writes are about 4x slower than a 2010 Mac Pro with a NVMe SSD. There is clearly a bottleneck in there somewhere that's bigger than the elephant in the room. FWIW... 4K write performance of the Mac Studio's 1TB SSD is constrained like it's sitting behind a thunderbolt interface.

 

[throAU]

Apple Silicon 4K SSD write performance is abysmal. Sad to say, M2 appears to have no improvement over M1. Based on observations 4k writes are about 4x slower than a 2010 Mac Pro with a NVMe SSD. There is clearly a bottleneck in there somewhere that's bigger than the elephant in the room. FWIW... 4K write performance of the Mac Studio's 1TB SSD is constrained like it's sitting behind a thunderbolt interface.

The OS will likely be serialising writes so that it isn't hitting the SSD in 4k chunks.

 

[HDFan]

Apple Silicon 4K SSD write performance is abysmal.

How did you measure it? What values did you get?

 

[srgz]

NVidia is expected to announce a 150% performance improvement for the 40-series over the 30-series, which had a similar improvement over the 20-series. For perspective on how badly the wheels are falling off at Cupertino.

Remember Apples current BEST iGPU can’t even compete with the 3090 for workstation loads, which came out in 2020

Also the vast majority of workstation class GPU intensive apps run best on NVidia anyway…that’s always been AMD’s problem, their cards are actually pretty great if you compare dollars to performance…but without support for pro apps, or driver issues / crashes…it’s a non starter for a lot of folks.

 

[mattspace]

Remember Apples current BEST iGPU can’t even compete with the 3090 for workstation loads, which came out in 2020

Also the vast majority of workstation class GPU intensive apps run best on NVidia anyway…that’s always been AMD’s problem, their cards are actually pretty great if you compare dollars to performance…but without support for pro apps, or driver issues / crashes…it’s a non starter for a lot of folks.

Yes, if you compare dollars per performance, but their other big problem is that for many people, the difference in price between the top AMD, and the top NVidia GPU is not particularly significant, and Nvidia has a performance lead you simply can't get at any price from AMD.