I was surprised to learn that the
M1 Max CPU is an ARM/SoC, comparable to an 11th gen Intel i9
ref: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4585vs4245/Apple-M1-Max...
I was surprised to learn that the
M1 Max CPU is an ARM/SoC, comparable to an 11th gen Intel i9
ref: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4585vs4245/Apple-M1-Max...
It's also a bit apples (heh) to oranges for a handful of reasons, but most impactful
- "unified" ram makes all the system ram available as VRAM - dedicated ai coaccelerator thingy
Both of these reasons allow the apple silicon chips to crush conventional cpus in these kind of AI model workload stuffs
No idea about what the windows arm stuff is capable of. I know they use Qualcomm snapdragon chips though.
“Comparable” is maybe true if we are talking about single core performance, but for memory bandwidth, the M1 Max is about 8 times faster. Wider bus, lower latency, not even close.
No comparison. M1 Max has 400GB/s RAM bandwidth while Snapdragon X2 Elite, the latest and greatest , has 228GB/s RAM bandwidth.
I don't disagree with your conclusion but the comparison of max bandwidth between the two SoCs is not enough. Neither of them will use all of that bandwidth doing AI work because the GPU will be compute limited. That's why dedicated GPUs perform so significantly better without having significantly higher bandwidth.
The question I answered was "Would Windows ARM performance be similar for those cpu?" and the answer is, no, because the RAM bandwidth for ARM SoC computers for Windows, primarily Snapdragon X1E and X2E is half to quarter that of the M1 Max.
Same thing applies. Neither CPU would be able to fully saturate the available memory bandwidth so comparing by bandwidth alone is not accurate.
To your question, I can’t deny or confirm that because I didn’t tried it this project over a Windows machine yet or a machine with this config