@ulf3000
It’s 32 core GPU and 12 to 16 core CPU; two separate core counts. You gotta remember Apple is doing it a “little different” with the whole SOC design.
The 32 core CPU is projected to have a 128 core GPU paired with it. And that thing may just be in a league of its own.
The M1’s 8 core GPU separate from its 8 core CPU is already putting up impressive numbers for an iGPU.
So I guess we can only wait and have a little fun with the rumor predictions. It not something to get butt hurt over.
You do have to take in the fact that the M1 is rendering that scene on its 4x4 core CPU VS a Nvidia GPU.
M1 Macs can’t render Cycles scenes on its GPU.
So basically you’re comparing a low core CPU to a higher end last gen GPU. Which doesn’t look to shabby.
You can also create anything in 3D with macOS. Cinema 4D is pretty good. But if you’re working with Blender, Linux/Windows PC are the best machines for that because that’s where the development happens. Otherwise you can do everything with macOS plus HardCore-UNIX
I’m in the same boat with software choices for 3D. I have to have a second machine running Windows now that the M1s don’t have a Boot Camp option anymore.
I tried a trial of Paralles but some apps wouldn’t even boot up.
The whole Apple ARM app compatibility and workflow is just to immature at the moment.
I’m sure a year or two from now things are going to be different.
I assume Apple previous experience with a switch helps them this time switching to ARM. To my understanding the work to make X86 code run on SoC is less work than it was for PPC to X86.
One Rain 5900x RTX 3070. It seems animation in the rain scene does use a single core for something. Seems about right in line with cinebench single core which says 5900x is slightly faster than M1 single core.
It is interesting the M1 Viewport Shading is missing some things like depth of field, shadows, and shading where the PC Viewport Shading looks almost like Eevee. Eevee does seem to be almost as fast as Viewport though. I like using Eevee when animating characters as it feels so cool seeing almost the final product quality in real time as I move the character around. It makes it more fun.
A nice summary of WWDC.
Cycles X in Blender 3.0 is also supposed to have a good CPU speed up for all those that can’t use Nvidia. So big plus there for mac users.
its just that today everything is more standardized. All the libraries, ides, structuring , cross compatibility etc. pp. is much fleshed out for the base libraries, the os`s, and the programs themselfs.
seems like eevee will get a major overhaul with tesselation , vertex shaders , gamelike shader evaluation(much faster) , proper grease pencil integration etc.
dude i mean geometry shaders and maybe a bridge to gpu accelerated skinning and stuff like that haha
Renzatic
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Geometry shaders are exactly what I want. It’s something that’s been sorely missing in Blender, and has only been halfway addressable through geometry nodes.
. That 3070 is putting out some major pixels!
