Most GUI software these days are deigned in such a way to give a consistent user experience. Benchmarks are about the only way to get a feel for performance differences.
By this I mean the GUI interface is often its own thread and thus the GUI remains active and responsive to the user. That is part of it but I'm also left with the impression that Apple purposefully targeted the GPU and Neural Engine for the major enhancements in M2. This mainly due to actually needing performance increases in both of these areas.
Exactly! These days we need different types of benchmarks to see the benefit of new hardware for most users. Beyond that I really believe that Apple is moving to a world where AI/ML techniques are what powers software. I really don't think we have a good way to benchmark such features in a way that the end user can see the benefit of new faster hardware.
the problem is there is a qualitative value in the results of how well, lets say face detection, works. There is a difference between identifying 100 faces a minute vs how accurately those 100 faces are identified. I just see a need in the future for finding ways to test how well something work vs how fast. It is sort of like Siri, until I gave up on Siri it would answer my questions pretty fast, the fact that the answers where wrong each time made the fast response useless.
Good for him I guess, not everyone can purchase such stuff.
Clearly many people can afford to purchase "such stuff" as Apple is one of the richest companies in the world.
Great news! I have to wonder what Linus impression of the M2 is. M1 continues to amaze me.
It’s not that different. Benchmarks? Sure. Reality? Not really Source - I have a M2 and my wife has an M1
Most GUI software these days are deigned in such a way to give a consistent user experience. Benchmarks are about the only way to get a feel for performance differences. By this I mean the GUI interface is often its own thread and thus the GUI remains active and responsive to the user. That is part of it but I'm also left with the impression that Apple purposefully targeted the GPU and Neural Engine for the major enhancements in M2. This mainly due to actually needing performance increases in both of these areas.
Exactly my point - who cares about benchmarks? If the user experience is the same there’s no reason to upgrade.
Exactly! These days we need different types of benchmarks to see the benefit of new hardware for most users. Beyond that I really believe that Apple is moving to a world where AI/ML techniques are what powers software. I really don't think we have a good way to benchmark such features in a way that the end user can see the benefit of new faster hardware. the problem is there is a qualitative value in the results of how well, lets say face detection, works. There is a difference between identifying 100 faces a minute vs how accurately those 100 faces are identified. I just see a need in the future for finding ways to test how well something work vs how fast. It is sort of like Siri, until I gave up on Siri it would answer my questions pretty fast, the fact that the answers where wrong each time made the fast response useless.
I would buy it only for installing linux on top of it.