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Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory (www.techpowerup.com)
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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I guess it depends on your definition of perfect - cheap, good or fast.

This thing is probably going to cost at least $20K USD.

Edit:

"Next year's base M7 processor is expected to arrive in the first half of 2027 and will also upgrade memory bandwidth to about 240 GB/s."

That's...really fucking slow. What's the goal here - CGI, engineering sims, game dev etc? 1.5TB is cool but at 240GB/s that will crawl for AI use.

Comparison: this is about $100K, for 7.2TB/s, 252GB VRAM (+500GB system ram, so closer to 750GB total)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-station/

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 10 hours ago

While Apple computers generally will have better support, they will be very slow due to unified memory itself. I'm not sure if this is actually the future.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Something got reported on incorrectly because the M5 Max's have 614 GB/s today, and the Ultra M4 machine's (not laptops) are 819 and that's 3 generations behind a M7 if they make an M7 ultra machine.

$ for $ you'll get more video ram than paying for a 5090, but it won't be as fast and can't train well.

Before the ram price decable, you could get a 192gb M4 Ultra for ~10k CAD.