Interesting. Never saw mine go above 220 percent or so.
When I say briefly, I really mean briefly. It was for like 1 second; I wager that if you don't have the sample rate set fairly high for monitoring it's possible you just missed it
Plus the two of you got identical results for this task.
Did you quit the kernel first? I also do get a lot of variation but only above 3 if I quit the kernel first
For others: When run that benchmark myself I add a pause statement so the kernel can completely reopen before the benchmark starts. I forgot to include that in the first version I sent to casperes1996 and Cmaier.
I'm wondering what mix of PCIe expansion slots the AS Mac Pro will offer (if any at all). Here's what's on the 2019 Mac Pro. On the latter they had many uses—GPUs, Afterburner, general storage, RAID cards, audio processing cards, fibre channel cards, fibre networking cards, additional I/O ports, etc. Even if the AS Mac Pro doesn't accept additional GPU's, there's still all the other potential uses.
Maybe none? Mpx, thunderbolt, m.2 or whatever? Not sure what you would put in a pcie slot that would actually work, but I suppose it’s possible.
I added an edit after you replied, but what about more I/O ports, more storage (like https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDACL8M264M/ ), RAID cards, audio cards, fibre channel cards, fibre networking cards, etc. ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210408 )? Essentially anything that would normally be off-chip anyways (unlike, e.g., the GPU), so it wouldn't need to be part of Apple Silicon's integrated architecture. In that case, wouldn't it just be a matter of the chip having enough I/O to accommodate those slots?
Sure, as long as drivers exist. But most of those things work fine with thunderbolt or mpx. So apple may just want to move past pcie
Sorry, I'm a bit confused. I thought the MPX modules on the Mac Pro plugged into its PCIe slots ( https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-pro-mpx-modules-explained/ ). And that its TB likewise went through PCIe lanes. So, sure, these cards work fine on the current Mac Pro with MPX or TB, but it seems that's just saying they work fine with card->MPX->PCIe->CPU or card->TB->PCIe->CPU. I.e., on the Mac Pro, aren't you're still using PCIe to interface these with the CPU? Thus when you say Apple might want to move past PCIe, are you saying the AS Mac Pro might have MPX and TB that accesses the CPU directly w/o going thru PCIe?
I was referring to the socket and not the interface.
Ah, got it. But in that case I'd say regardless of whether the user would be plugging in cards via PCIe slots or MPX slots, it's effectively the same thing: With either approach, all these extra cards are neatly contained within the case, rather than needing to be external devices connected through cables. So that's really my question: Will the case design of the AS Mac Pro be like the 2013 Mac Pro's, where the expansion was mostly external (resulting in a very compact device), or like the 2019 Mac Pro's, where there was ample room for internal expansion?
