You would think Apple would be pushing av1 to reduce its bandwidth spend for Apple TV+, but a17pro seems like an absurdly expensive chip to use for an Apple TV?
I’ve always been surprised at how often Apple iterates this product and changes nothing of substance.
Intel’s accelerator strategy and focus on memory bandwidth is paying off huge.
First time in awhile I’ve seen Intel execute something well and catch AMD with their pants down, despite sapphire rapids being a lemon in most respects.
If you’re doing small/moderage transfers, why do you need 8tb of capacity? Why wouldn’t you use, totally serious here, a 1tb usb stick which is going to go just as fast but cost a lot less and be smaller?
I just don’t see the product market fit here. I just don’t know why this product exists other than an engineer at Samsung deciding they could do it so damn it they were going to do it. It seems to be either outperformed at the same price, or have an equivalent that gets the same job done for a lower price.
I GUESS just because affordable 8tb QLC M.2 SSDs aren’t really a thing, but it still sounds mad stupid to me compared to using a 4tb QLC M.2 SSD like Crucial P3 which are fuck cheap. Or even step up to a Teamgroup MP34 4tb.
How many fucking console games do people own? If you have enough to fill up a 4tb I’d say you should have bought a PC awhile ago.
I genuinely have zero idea what the market is for giant portable drives which can’t read/write quickly but are more expensive than spinning rust. The nature of these portable drives is either you’re writing just a little data to them so you don’t need much storage, or you are writing a ton of data to them and want to probably run at TB3 speeds or better.
I honestly don’t know how well a 24gb 5090 will move, no matter how fast it is. I feel like the gamers will go for stuff like 4080 super, 4070 ti super, next gen AMD. For productivity users, there’s 3090, 4090, A6000.
Maybe I’m wrong and the card doesn’t need to be very good to sell because GPUs are so burning hot right now.
I mean it just seems sort of insane to use 3nm silicon companies like Nvidia are desperate to sell GPUs costing tens of thousands with margins of well over 500% on… selling a smart TV box? Saving a few dimes on bandwidth for the minority of users that are Apple TV+ subscribers? Helping push games which most Apple TV users don’t play?
I wouldn’t be shocked if the last gen chip can just brute force av1 decode in software too. It just seems hilariously uneconomical.