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Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve will become a Universal app, making use of the native performance benefits of Apple silicon and built in media-encoder acceleration. Porting to Apple’s architecture for certain developers has been reported to be very fast, for some apps just one day’s work. Modest by desktop standards but very good by integrated graphics standards – blows Intel Iris out of the water.Īpps that can run natively on the new processor are dubbed Universal Apps – they contain both the Intel and Apple CPU versions of the same software, compiled for different architecture. Meanwhile the Integrated GPU at 2.6 teraflops is approximately at the level of a NVidia GTX 1050 Ti. Quite astounding.Īpple promises that with some applications, the M1 is faster through an interpreter with native Intel x86 apps than these apps running natively on an Intel laptop CPU of similar class and power! That’s an astonishing claim. In some tasks, due to custom CPU features like the Neural Network processing and hardware video encoders, real-world performance will be in the region of 500 to 800 percent faster. Of course, your app will need to be running natively and making use of the custom features of the hardware to attain that level of performance. Multiply this score by 3.5x and we’re in the region of 21,819, the level of a desktop class AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, AMD Ryzen 5600X or Intel i9-9900X at 3.5GHZ… at around a third of the power consumption. That’s comparable with an Intel Core i5-8265U laptop CPU. To give you an idea of how the ‘average’ 3.5x performance gain compares to desktop performance class laptop Intel CPUs, the 1060NG7 benchmarks with a Passmark of 6234. In custom silicon enhanced tasks like HDR video and high-performance video editing, performance can be as much as 800% better. How fast is it?Īpple are claiming from their own testing with ‘an industry-standard benchmark’, 3.5x faster than a 2020 MacBook Air equipped with 1.2GHz 10th gen quad-core Intel Core i7 CPU.

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Missing today from the announcement was the Apple silicon powered MacBook Pro 16″ or a new iMac. 16 billion transistors v 11.8 billion, with unified memory architecture like the PS5. The M1 is not the same as the A14 in the iPhone. There are 4 performance cores and 4 high efficiency cores. Only the MacBook Pro 13″ has any active cooling. However despite the integrated graphics, it breezes through video editing in demanding apps like Resolve.

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Apple GPUs playing the latest games? Maybe! To take on Nvidia would be a great thing, if Apple really wants a bigger foothold in the overall PC industry, this is one path to go about it.Īnyway, so what about somebody who just wants a machine to edit 10bit 4:2:2 on without it stuttering? Well the new M1 powered MacBook Pro 13″ may well be VERY interesting to get hold of for that.Īpple M1 sits in an integrated SoC, with soldered RAM modules, and an integrated GPU – and a very small mainboard, barely any larger than the one in a top of the range iPad. 10bit 4:2:2 H.264 editing performance is pretty woeful on Intel and AMD CPUs, let’s admit it.Īlthough for the foreseeable future Apple silicon will remain in small & light consumer Apple devices, who knows where the path may lead in the future? Apple silicon in a high-end desktop Mac Pro? Likely. There are some big claims Apple is making for their new silicon.įor certain, the duopoly of Intel and AMD needs challenging even if this is very much a closed system available only for MacOS. How about editing 8K ProRes in DaVinci Resolve on a 13″ Macbook?

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