Discussion M5 series GPU discussion

[mvprod123]

Blender has released a benchmark with version 5.0. The M5 GPU has proven to be very impressive. In initial tests, the M5 Max is only 9% behind the 5090 laptop.

 

[poke01]

The M5 Pro with 16 GPU cores is matching the RTX 4080 laptop in Blender.

 

[mvprod123]

Apple M5 GPU Roofline Analysis

In this deep dive, we will examine M5's GPU performance across various workloads. TLDR: It can be very powerful if the programmer knows how to use it correctly.

www.michaelstinkerings.org

 

[mvprod123]

The M5 Ultra could potentially match the 5090 desktop in Blender.

 

[Covfefe]

This write-up goes into some detail about the Apple M5's GPU's neural accelerators.

Investigating the GPU Neural Accelerators on Apple A19/M5

tzakharko.github.io

The author posted it in another forum.