I’m certainly excited about what performance improvements we’ll see as more developers fully optimize their software for Apple’s silicon. Even when running non-optimized versions of apps, the M1 MacBook Pro still puts up a hell of a fight against a superpowered editing PC, and the fact that it’s able to outperform the PC on some tests when using M1-optimized beta apps is astonishing. While Hoyle didn’t give any comparisons, he said that there were ‘”no issues” working with 4K files in DaVinci Resolve Studio, a high-end video editing and color-correction app.Īll in, he says, there’s no reason for photographers to hold back. For reference, my desktop did the same export in 1:20. The Intel-based version of Premiere took 6 minutes, 25 seconds to export on the M1 MacBook, but the optimized M1 beta version took about half the time, at 3 minutes, 24 seconds.
The PC was still significantly faster when it came to video, however. The M1 version of Lightroom also beat out the PC when it came to importing 100 raw images. It took 22 seconds to align the layers and 46.6 seconds to merge them - a faster overall time than my immensely powerful editing rig was able to achieve. However I then ran the same tests on the beta version of Photoshop that supports Apple M1. The PC took 20 seconds to align the layers and 53 seconds to merge them - a clear victory for the PC. I compared that to an exceptionally powerful Windows desktop PC that was built with an AMD RyX CPU, Nvidia RTX Titan graphics and 128GB RAM, specifically to be a beast with editing photos and 8K video. Intel-based Photoshop, via Rosetta 2, took 50.3 seconds to align the layers and 1 minute, 37 seconds to merge them. It’s a technique I use regularly in my product photography, so it’s important for me to have good efficiency here.
I tested how long it took Photoshop (both in Intel and M1 beta versions) to align 19 full-resolution raw images and then to merge them into a focus-stacked image.
He found that the M1 MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM didn’t compete when it was running Intel-based Photoshop, but it was a different story when he tried the M1 beta version. Hoyle is CNET’ s European lead photographer. Professional photographer Andrew Hoyle said that he was “astonished” by the performance, and concludes that an M1 Mac is a safe bet for photographers looking to upgrade… An M1 MacBook Pro photo editing test found that the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro running M1-optimized apps was faster than a ‘”beast” of a Windows desktop PC – despite the fact that the latter was specifically specced with photo editing in mind and had a massive 128 GB of RAM.
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