Apple M1 Ultra - is this enough for chess?

[Raphexon]

For stockfish 14.1 pure nnue we should expect about 30MNps, extrapolating from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/st ... 0.2326552/ and https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/co ... e=13330272. Comparing to http://ipmanchess.yolasite.com/amd--int ... ckfish.php it should place around AMD Ryzen 9 3900X/ Intel Core i5 12600K. Respectable, but nothing special.

M2 chips will be release in the second half of 2022.
M2 Ultra will have +4 performance cores:
16 + 4 = 20 performance cores
+4 high efficiency cores = 24 CPU cores.
On top of that the M2 Ultra cores will be 20% faster.
For Stockfish 14.1 pure nnue we should expect 44MNps.

So still below a 5950x, on par with a 12900K in our usecase.
But will be competing with Zen4, Raptor Lake and likely Meteor Lake as well.

[Modern Times]

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/apples-m1 ... workloads/?

[wickedpotus]

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/apples-m1 ... workloads/?

Apple sucks in pretty much everything apart from marketing and "influencer" mindset these days.. (some idiots still believe qeekbench is a relevant cross platfrom benchmark )

Thank god the at least sells their so-so hw for such a cheap price...

[Magnum]

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/apples-m1 ... workloads/?

Apple sucks in pretty much everything apart from marketing and "influencer" mindset these days.. (some idiots still believe qeekbench is a relevant cross platfrom benchmark )

Thank god the at least sells their so-so hw for such a cheap price...

Even Go developers and players love Apple M1.
https://smartgo.blog/2022/03/24/no-mac-studio/

[Sopel]

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/apples-m1 ... workloads/?

Apple sucks in pretty much everything apart from marketing and "influencer" mindset these days.. (some idiots still believe qeekbench is a relevant cross platfrom benchmark )

Thank god the at least sells their so-so hw for such a cheap price...

Even Go developers and players love Apple M1.
https://smartgo.blog/2022/03/24/no-mac-studio/