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		ben-schaaf on Dec 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel > That's already a huge amount for a bloody laptop It's about on-par with modern-ish dedicated laptop GPUs. The mid-range GTX 1060 mobile from 2016 does 200GB/s, a RTX 3070 mobile from this year does ~450GB/s.

Aaargh20318 on Dec 24, 2021 [–]

Sure, for the GPU that’s just pretty decent, but the real advantage is the amount of bandwidth available tot the CPU.

ac29 on Dec 24, 2021 | [–]

But its not available to the CPU. A couple posts up the chain has a link showing the CPUs are incapable of coming anywhere close to the full bandwidth of the memory.

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