Ben Mccarthy
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How about pay per use, i’ll go for that, $1 to open the program each tim! Resets everyday…$20 a week sounds about right if you’re making money off of it 🙂
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The Radeon Vega is more closely comparable to a 1080ti just to FYI
Radeon Vega:
Better floating-point performance 13,107 GFLOPS vs 10,609 GFLOPS Around 25% better floating-point performance
Significantly wider memory bus 2,048 bit vs 352 bit More than 5.8x wider memory bus
More shading units 4,096 vs 3,584 512 more shading units
More texture mapping units 256 vs 224 32 more texture mapping unitsGTX 1080ti
Much higher effective memory clock speed 11,008 MHz vs 2,000 MHz More than 5.5x higher effective memory clock speed
More memory 11,264 MB vs 8,192 MB Around 40% more memory
Higher pixel rate 130.2 GPixel/s vs 102.4 GPixel/s More than 25% higher pixel rate
More render output processors 88 vs 64 24 more render output processors
Higher memory clock speed 1,376 MHz vs 1,000 MHz Around 40% higher memory clock speed -
sorry Surface Studio you are right
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The 18 core CPU alone costs $2000 on these bad boys, coupled that with a Vega GPU which will be $1000 +, factor in a 5K monitor with this quality that’s another $1000, that’s without Motherboard, RAM, Powersupply, Case, Mouse and keyboard and Apples design.
A Microsoft Surface Pro costs which has a quad core processor:
• 6th Gen Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM
• Ultra-thin 28-inch adjustable PixelSense Display
• Surface Pen, Keyboard and Mouse included
• Windows 10 Prois $5500 Australian
I’d take the iMac Pro for $6500 anyday of the week
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The iMacPro won’t have a Radeon RX580 or similar they are waiting for the new cards to drop from AMD Radeon Vega,
“This is where the AMD Vega GPU architecture comes in, aiming to jump in at the high-end and providing the Radeon faithful with a serious GTX 1080 Ti contender.”
I’m also excited about the eGPU solutions which Apple talked about, mainly for the Macbook Pros but they’ll work the same for the iMac Pros as well, so potentially you could have a Vega as a main discrete dGPU and another Vega in an enclosure doing more computations, coupled that with:
“Infinity Fabric allows us to join different engines together on a die much easier than before,” Koduri explained. “As well it enables some really low latency and high-bandwidth interconnects. This is important to tie together our different IPs (and partner IPs) together efficiently and quickly. It forms the basis of all of our future ASIC designs. We haven’t mentioned any multi GPU designs on a single ASIC like Epyc, but the capability is possible with Infinity Fabric.”
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So true on Aussie pricing, hopefully Vega gets good usage in Resove
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Oliver’s it looks like the iMac Pro will support these processors, it didn’t go to far into the keynote but it looks feasible now, 18 cores 128gb of ram, thunderbolt 3, AMD vega graphics , amazing… the proce is going to sting though 😕
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No these are for desktops, PC market only unless Apple suddenly makes a new MacPro in the next 3 months or changes the iMac design dramatically to utilise desktop processors. Another thing with these new Intel chips are designed for AIO water-cooling systems only. So the new MAcPro or iMacPro will have to have watercooling! Hello Power Macintosh!!!!
“Intel is also introducing a new Intel AIO cooler. It should be competitive with other single radiator AIOs from the major brands in the industry, but will have the fancy Intel logo and blue lit fan. The Intel Thermal Solution TS13X should cost between $85 and $100. It will support LGA2011 (and LGA2066), LGA1366, and LGA 115X.”
So i’m guessing that could be a reason why we won’t have a new MacPro until the new year.
Also announced the new Mobile chips after KabyLake (which Aple hasn’t implemented yet) will be 30% faster than KabyLake, so when you buy a new Macbook Pro next month the next Macbook will be faster by 30% by the end of the year/early next year. So we’re always on the late technology train