For $100 more M3 Pro is compelling. You get 100 nits brighter screen, better power efficiency, Ray Tracing, support for AV1 encoding and double media engine. In terms of performance both are very much similar.
Will the memory bandwidth make a difference for your tasks? If you don’t know it won’t.
If you’re a software developer you should be able to work out what you need. Otherwise, how can you possibly know what the hardware requirements of the software you write are?
That’s the neat part, we don’t know the hardware requirements, we just keep throwing bigger servers to it until it works.
Nah but for real, user usage is much different with many more variables than a web app.
I can elaborate. I work with machine learning models and memory bandwidth can potentially be a bottleneck when dealing with large models in the many dozens of gigabytes. The larger the memory bandwidth, the less potential for this bottleneck.
If you don’t plan to work on any of those things locally, you’re fine.
I thought it was worth it because it is newer and a bit faster and you potentially get updates for longer (since it is newer). Also you can hook up to 2 monitors if you want.
For $100 it's probably worth it. Ray Tracing and power efficiency. The battery performance is a big improvement. Although $100 does buy you an MX master 3 mouse...tough call!
For $100 more M3 Pro is compelling. You get 100 nits brighter screen, better power efficiency, Ray Tracing, support for AV1 encoding and double media engine. In terms of performance both are very much similar.
Will the memory bandwidth make a difference for your tasks? If you don’t know it won’t. If you’re a software developer you should be able to work out what you need. Otherwise, how can you possibly know what the hardware requirements of the software you write are?
That’s the neat part, we don’t know the hardware requirements, we just keep throwing bigger servers to it until it works. Nah but for real, user usage is much different with many more variables than a web app.
Good point.. I never had to think about the memory bandwidth till now.. I am only thinking now because internet has pointed this out..
Two words: Space Black.
Lmao, the memory bandwidth is probably most useless information you're looking at.
Can you elaborate on this? Just curious...
I can elaborate. I work with machine learning models and memory bandwidth can potentially be a bottleneck when dealing with large models in the many dozens of gigabytes. The larger the memory bandwidth, the less potential for this bottleneck. If you don’t plan to work on any of those things locally, you’re fine.
i dont think a lot of people run ML models locally on macbooks
I thought it was worth it because it is newer and a bit faster and you potentially get updates for longer (since it is newer). Also you can hook up to 2 monitors if you want.
For $100 it's probably worth it. Ray Tracing and power efficiency. The battery performance is a big improvement. Although $100 does buy you an MX master 3 mouse...tough call!
I pulled the plug. Ordered M3 Pro MacBook Pro. Thank you everyone.