Episode 539
539: The Strap Situation
More on Apple Vision Pro and visionOS, writing SwiftUI at cruising altitude, new hopes for Mac gaming, and what John really thinks of the new Mac Pro.
Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP
June 15, 20232h 23m
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Show Notes
- Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
- “Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
- “Alexa” not recognized with frequency-range muting (or known-fingerprint matching)
- iOS 17:
Siri & Search→Listen For
- Vision Pro
- Promo video
xrOSat WWDC- Fit / Weight/ Top Strap
- Power Estimate
- Guest Mode
- Pixel math
- Refresh rate
- Accidental hypocrisy? (via Niall O’Mara)
- Plane use
- Vision Pro?
- Gaming
- Developer kits
- New Macs
- 15” MacBook Air
- Mac Studio
- Fan Noise Ratings
- M1 / 2022: 15dB
- M2 / 2023: 6dB
- Difference is ~8×
- Pricing ∆ between Mini & Studio
- Fan Noise Ratings
- Mac Pro
- John Ternus on discrete GPUs in Macs
- Metal scores
- M1 Max: 108,363
- M1 Ultra: 150,644
- 1.3× M1 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
- M2 Max: 131,302
- M2 Ultra: 267,399
- 2× M2 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
- #5 fastest Metal score overall
- Top 3 are GPUs in a 2019 Mac Pro
- M2 Ultra vs. NVIDIA
- Non-game GPU performance
- Blender GPU scores
- M2 Ultra: 3,412
- NVIDIA 4090: 13,158 (3.8× faster)
- NVIDIA 3080: 6,205 (1.8× faster)
- NVIDIA 3060: 3,256 (costs $330)
- NVIDIA 3070: 3,396 (laptop GPU)
- Blender GPU scores
- CPU benchmark
- M2 Ultra vs. Intel & AMD
- Intel Xeon W9-3495X (56-core)
- Multi-core: 53,504 (2.8× faster)
- Intel Core i9-13900KS
- Single-core: 3,080 (39% faster)
- Multi-core: 21,665 (15% faster)
- Intel Xeon W9-3495X (56-core)
- Mac Pro PCIe lanes
- Neil Parfitt on the new Mac Pro
- Ternus & Joz acknowledge ATP shirt (❗)
- Gaming
- Apple’s Proton-like tool
- Gokhan Avkarogullari
- Anonymous feedback
- macOS 14 Sonoma
- Post-show: John’s special treat
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