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		zX41ZdbW on Oct 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors > The question is: what kind of problems are people needing that want 400GB/s bandwidth on a CPU? Well, probably none frankly. It is needed for analytic databases, e.g. ClickHouse: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup53/optimizations/

znwu on Oct 19, 2021 [–]

This is some seriously interesting stuff.

But they are demonstrating with 16 cores + 30 GB/s & 128 cores + 190 GB/s. And to my understanding they did not really mention what type of computational load did they perform. So this does not sound too ridiculous. M1 max is pairing 8 cores + 400GB/s.

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