That's really impressive!
That said, I really wish someone other than Apple would release something like an ARM64 NUC, with good Linux compat. Even something on par with the SD Gen 2 should be plenty to run a desktop day to day.
That said, I really wish someone other than Apple would release something like an ARM64 NUC, with good Linux compat. Even something on par with the SD Gen 2 should be plenty to run a desktop day to day.
There were recently a couple of new NUC-type devices based on the outgoing generation AMD mobile processors. I have the Minisforum UM690, based on the Ryzen 6900HX, and it's been working great as my new desktop computer. The iGPU is pretty good too. The Ryzen 6800U (U = efficient variant, 25 W TDP) is about the same as the M2 for performance and power consumption. The 6900HX in this device is the high power variant, default TDP is 45 W but you can lower it to 25 W in the BIOS which should make it about identical to a 6800U. The newer ones with the latest gen Ryzen chips should be much more efficient.
M1 Ultra doubles the bandwidth again to 800GB/sec, and fits in a small and quite desktop. What CPU+iGPU (or GPU) do you think is comparable to M1 Ultra and competes on performance and power?
I'm pretty sure the biggest intel/amd desktopn cpu is faster than a m1 pro/ultra, m2 pro/ultra but there is no amd64 processer with the same efficiency than the m1/m2 macs.
My 7 year old i7 laptop used 5 W idling with a few applications open and the screen at max brightness. I don't know what a modern non-Apple laptop uses when watching video, but 10 W seems about right.
The v2718 is an embedded Zen2 SoC with a Vega GPU that totals 10-25wCDP. Adding RAM and a main board to that might add 10w, give or take.
> heck watching prime video my total power is at ~10w total power.
Watching video is probably one of the most efficient tasks you can do these days, especially since most of it is offloaded to specialized decoders in the GPU (of which AMD, Apple, nvidia, Intel, etc all provide).
> trust me no matter which ryzen/intel processer you will never be as low as 10w total power.
They literally exist. There’s just no market for them. The sweet spot for PC users is around 15-25w for laptops. The loss in performance below that is generally something people are dissatisfied with.
... provided everything you and your team does is 100% on the web, otherwise if you're a normal dev shop building and consuming docker images then you'll chase innumerable reports of "well, on my machine I can't use docker.io/example/thingy:1.0 I had to use docker.io/eleeetz-safe-4-sure/thingy:0.33.05beta-arm64"
Thus, it would be better if the whole company were on the same CPU and since there's no longer any prayer of amd64 macOS ... we Linuxers have to capitulate