fishkeeper9000

If you listen to the investor calls and roadmaps they state when 20A/18A will be ready and on what manufacturing processes.

My guess is IFS will be coming online and Intel is saving that for their customers. And the other is better margin. Intel has better margins on their own manufacturing reserved for their higher priced products.

Lunar Lake being a consumer product will mean lower margins. And saving 20A/18A for server and server gpu products could mean better margins.

Performance is likely secondary. All new silicon perform pretty close that you really can't tell the difference.

Only NVIDIA has the exception with the software scaling. Like DLSS and Frame Generation.

Since when did we care so much about the lawman? Especially the old and white international law man?

Like I would totally download a car. I’ve downloaded many things I shouldn’t have on the internet just because I can. People speed daily because no body is looking. The whole reason why border patrol has a job is because they stop and check vehicles for contraband.

US citizens make money buying drugs from one state and driving it over to another to cut up drugs and sell for more profit.

People overcharge the normal us consumer and we blindly accept it. Heck that extra virgin olive oil you bought at your market likely isn’t even from Italy or it is full of filler.

So why I ask. Who cares if NVIDIA can make more money selling equipment that everyone else is already using? And for what? So people can use bing more for search and some fun Ai Friday after work chat?? Or when you use Ai to generate some warhammer 40K ideas for new colors and inspiration?

While I do like new tech and certainly Apple M line of cpu+gpu chips on a single SOC are powerful, it needs to be compared to the right technology. Comparing an SOC with a single heat pipe versus a desktop class GPU with 2000 grams of heat sink is just not a good comparison. They are built for different things.

The consumer class 4000 series rtx is not a workstation class GPU. It is designed for intensive grunt work for gamers. Latency is optimized for gaming. So high-frequency clock speeds. The higher the better latency.

Apple M3 is geared towards the professional content creator class of user. Who does not like to be bothered by heavy GPU and fan noise. It won’t have the best latency but it has good access to the tools to help get professional work done.

Until Apple develop their own “GPU”with high frequency and heavy cooling requirements, they will just be dumbing down games to candy crush style avg latency gaming.

Intel dominates in adobe premiere pro for getting work done. Apple just looks nicer. But in the past, most laptops that need repairs are MacBooks. Apple builds them very tiny and with proprietary hardware. So repairs are more difficult. Windows laptops have more suppliers so hardware failures are rare. More suppliers and builders of windows system means the hardware has been tested and bugs fixed.

Apple has actual hardware issues where chips need to be removed via a hot air station and then replaced.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/video-editing-workstations/adobe-premiere-pro/hardware-recommendations/