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miklosz | 2 years ago

Interesting, only single CPU. I was thinking, that for Mac Pro they will go somehow with multiple processors and some magic with shared memory access solved in OS. Interesting though, how the external GPU support will look like if you have PCI and if it will be expanded to the TB4 as well.

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gumby|2 years ago

> I was thinking, that for Mac Pro they will go somehow with multiple processors and some magic with shared memory access...

That is what they did. Read what they wrote about their interconnect. It's just all inside a single package. Look up "chiplets".

miklosz|2 years ago

Well, no, they didn't. I understand the idea behind M1/2Ultra. However, it's not exactly the same. Can they put 4 of these dice? And 8? Currently it maxes out at 24 cores per machine, in a rack mounted chassis. That is nothing near what I can get with EPYC based servers. And there I can have multiple processors in a machine.

SxC97|2 years ago

Yup, I was waiting for eGPU support to come back to the mac this year but it looks like no dice :/