Mem bandwidth sucks compared to Mac Studio ultra 3. And you cant add gpus easily although as an apu it is impressive and way better than nvidias gold box. Wendell said it better. Im waiting for the Mac Studio ultra 5
Yes. And this is so crucial! It's still a huge leap forward for x86. Quad-channel (4x) DDR5-8000 is both double the (client/non-server) lane count, and at a blisteringly high clock rate. That's very impressive.
Upcoming Zen6 Epyc was just confirmed to go to 12-> 16 channel. That'll be very good to see. The Strix Halo successor Medusa Halo is supposed to be 6x channel. (Most of these rumors/leaks via Moore's Law is Dead fwiw). It's absolutely needed to scale to more cores. But still seems so short of what AI demands.
I really can't congratulate Apple enough for being deadly serious about memory bandwidth. What is just gobsmacking to me is that no one else has responded, half a decade latter. Put the ram on chip! DDR, not crazy expensive HBM. The practice of building super chips out of 4x chips, getting scalability that way, feels so obvious too, is so commendable!
Different end of the spectrum, but Intels tablet-size Lakefield had Package-on-Package (PoP) ram, and pretty fast for its day (4266MHz). But it didn't scale up the width, like Apple has.
Its hard to see x86 seem so stuck, be so unable to make what feels like such a necessary push to
