Those cheese grater cases have really good air circulation design.
Just not above the RAM Cover und AMD 4870X in my MP 2.1 case,
which grilled my north bridge (?) after 4 years.
While not gpu related but interesting non the less
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Why you gotta diss my waifu RAM, brah?
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So if you guys remember I had posted some Dirt Rally comparisons showing the m1 pro 16in vs the rtx 3070 in my zephyrus laptopā¦both tested using ultra settings and 2560x1600 resolution. The m1 pro averaged 86fps to the rtx 3070 which averaged 81fps.
Well the 14in m1 max just takes it to another levelā¦averaged 121fps!
(ill be doing some blender specific tests soonā¦but overall viewport playback is similar to the m1 pro videos I have posted, we will probably see much greater difference when the GPU is fully utilized)
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Nice!!! 
Rendertest
M1 Mini needs 18 minutes for a scene of mine with Blender 3.0
The HP PC with Blender 3.0 and Nvidia 2080 Super 2 minutes.
Still the PC is 9 times faster :-D. With metal I guess then about 9 minutes with the M1. That would then be acceptable for the price. The M1 Max Macs will then most likely need only 1 minute for the scene. That would then be a reason to buy. 
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How long it takes your HP PC to render your scene using CPU only? What CPU is in your HP PC?
The HP PC has an i7-8700, 3.2 GHz, 6 cores.
Render test with the CPU now takes 19 minutes. However, you can hear the fans then. :-). M1 wins with the CPU.
The M1 is clearly better for body and mind.
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at this point I think apple is understanding that there is no way back.
for video and graphic design heck even photogrammetry the M1 chip architecture proved to be amazing.
just not competing with CUDA at high end levels.
but I am sure after seeing all that was released that they will have something for 3d rendering on the works too.
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We could say, though, that Watt vs Watt it does compete against CUDA.
If the people behind render farms would swap the same amount of āwatts usedā today in RTX cards nodes with the equivalent watt usage of M1Maxes GPUs then it would be a serious contender. Not only that, if the whole system is taken into account besides the GPU, my guess is that it is possible to achieve the same work output today with a whole lot less power needed.
A good test case for that will be Mac Mini Pros if/when they come out as they donāt have too much secondary peripherals to handle like screen, battery management, etc
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M1 devices are nearly silent.
Macbook Pros now are clearly audible already.
I hope the Mini Pro will stay silent.
My PC is basically silent (for a PC) in idle but you can still hear it
and it already distracts silent Music.
Iām in a silent non urban environment now, so I even meanwhile
hear my Trash Can.
No problem with my M1 Mini - I wanāt to keep that silence.
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I recently read that my other CAD will not get a native M1 version soon.
Because their licensed Modeling Core, which announced M1 compatibility
in January, delayed it until November 2022.
(and that you canāt mix native with Intel only code)
Well it runs quite ok via Rosetta2.
Beside the general culprits for the Mac Version.
Maybe just the M1 RAM limit that makes it laggy at a certain complexity.
And Redshift (here in Vectorworks) on Windows does run CPU only
on my AMD GPU, also without denoising.
(While it would run on an Intel Mac with AMD !?)
Looks like I shot in my knee with my āexoticā machine configurations ā¦
So Iāve decided which machine I intend to get. To keep it under 3 grand, Iāve had to do some tweaking, and make a few sacrifices, but Iāve landed on the 14" M1 Max 24 core, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD for $2899. If things go according to plan, Iāll be picking it up this February.
I would go for the 16", but I figured that if I ever intended to take it out, Iād want a little more portability. For the most part, itāll spend most of its time sitting on my desk.
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The noise in our Universiry render farm room is nice 
True for performance per watt the M1s deliver
For peak gpu performance thatās different
The pc laptop in the last test was also quite cheaper while louder
Similar price difference I think will be with desktop versions.
I needed to turn off one gpu when doing photogrammetry on the macpro and dang what a sound / noise difference.
I will be very curious about that I should get the 16ā M1Pro in a week.
I donāt have an M1 mini to compare but only an air
If they make an M1 Max duo mini with about the same noise level as the trashcan I will consider that 
While the trashcan is quite slow and old by todayās standards it has a nice ānoise floorā.
with all the drama it was a well-engineered system.
Isnt the m1 macmini equal to the m1 air?
The M1 Mini has a fan, the MBA does not even have one.
I never heard the Minis fan in regular tasks even at max load.
Just constantly pushing cool air out.
I only heard it a few times when a Public Beta update hang
or when it crashed during sleep and the fan went at max revs.
This way it is clearly audible.
The MBA can be configured with binned SoCs and it is overall
a little slower than M1 MBP or M1 Mini. But not much that it is
worth to switch.
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Yes it is quite awesome how they fitted everything inside.
I was joking in terms of noise as the air is fan-less.
Actually the mini is probably slightly better as it has a fan and does not throttle.
As far as performance goes I know what to expect and it will be a decent upgrade with the new 16ā, noise I am really curious about.
Thatās the exact config Iām to receive Wed 
From what Iāve been able to find, it seems like a nice sweet spot in terms of price / performance / portability / thermals.
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