A 50% jump in speed would not usually occur even over a couple of generations of MacBook pro. For instance the Geekbench scores for the low end 2014 15 inch MacBook pro gets around 3100 and the 16 inch mac book pro is 5380(ish) with 2 more cores. Over a 5 year period it has not doubled. So to get 50% extra for a software update seems great for me.
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Adobe Says Photoshop on M1 Runs 50% Faster Than 2019 Intel-Based MacBook
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I believe it is not susceptible to SPECTRE, but there was just a new side-channel attack discovered and it looks like M1 is susceptible.
It’s obviously very difficult to protect against undiscovered side-channel attacks.
Do yourself a big favor and stop using Adobe apps. Their programs are mostly garbage, and there are fantastic other apps out there now. Here's just a few:
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Photo
- Davinci Resolve
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Photo
- Davinci Resolve
M1 underlying architecture is ARM so latest info and mitigation can be found here.
https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates
I have them myself and they are amazing. Especially so considering the price!
Yeah, I remember the good ‘ole days of the IBM Deskstar GXP HDD’s….affectionately known as the Deathstar. Although it was the best performing HDD of it‘s time, I went through MANY of them due to running them in a RAID0+1 setup. I’d always have at least 1 fail in less than 2yrs from new.
M1 Mac mini owner and LG 24", purchased Jan 2021- going from 2014 MBP, 2009 iMac, 2012 iMac.
Light user, home Photoshop. Very light video. Worked at an Apple dealer until 2018 so worked with 21 and 27" 4k units.
Ran Collins Patchers to keep the OS's up to date (stayed at Mojave) to sync with iPhone 11s, 2020 iPads The Patchers have overall impressive performance, only suffering on demanding graphics, and on 12-7 year old hardware. Did well on Apple stock so splurged - wanted the 4k res, but on 24"(Desk space, slightly larger default font-I'm old-). Was willing to wait for an rumoured M1 iMac, but realized 27" probably first, then 21-24" so late in the year, next year, and -I'm old....
So an M1/LG 4K is pretty close to a hypothetical M1 24"iMac, but available now- I'm old- for probably about $200 less
Light user, home Photoshop. Very light video. Worked at an Apple dealer until 2018 so worked with 21 and 27" 4k units.
Ran Collins Patchers to keep the OS's up to date (stayed at Mojave) to sync with iPhone 11s, 2020 iPads The Patchers have overall impressive performance, only suffering on demanding graphics, and on 12-7 year old hardware. Did well on Apple stock so splurged - wanted the 4k res, but on 24"(Desk space, slightly larger default font-I'm old-). Was willing to wait for an rumoured M1 iMac, but realized 27" probably first, then 21-24" so late in the year, next year, and -I'm old....
So an M1/LG 4K is pretty close to a hypothetical M1 24"iMac, but available now- I'm old- for probably about $200 less
Garbage? So far there's no decent substitute for Lightroom. LR is a superb app that I've been using for almost 15 years and have been please with the updates and features.
Also... as I have around 200K images with non-destructive edits, there's no other editing/DAM app out out there that will honor those edits non-destructively as they're imported.
Max Tech did an interesting test and one of the final tests looked at an Adobe Premiere export vs Windows when RAM is fully saturated. The M1 completed the export in the same time as when it had plenty of RAM. On Windows and x86, it took twice as long.
I would think that not everything is going to run as fast as everything else. Some applications will see higher gains while others won't. For example, maybe one limiting factor is that the graphics processing of the current M1 laptops are not as high as the Intel version that supports discreet graphics. I don't know for sure that is the reason, but there are a lot of factors at play that doesn't make everything a direct corollary.
got to blame it on overenthusiastic youtubers who convinced everyone that 8gigs was enough and a week later sold it for a 16gig to make a video on why they should have got a 16 gig one
Nah, they can definitely be 50% faster on their price hikes though
Okay. Now let's get After Effects and Media Encoder. Of course, the pile of AE plugins too. This is going to take forever.
I'd prefer it if they completely overhauled their apps and actually optimized them. It feels like all they've ever been doing is adding more bloat to all their apps. Take Illustrator for example; it's very laggy. Compare it to Affinity Designer which basically does the same thing and you'll notice how much smoother everything runs.
It is actually tested here:Expected to see industry standard Photoshop benchmark results for comparison but nothing. How about a more recent CPU comparison?
https://www.pugetsystems.com/benchmarks/
Update: From extrapolation, if Photoshop performance on M1 is ~50% faster than 2019 Macbook Pro with high end i7-8557U CPU option which is equivalent to i7-8565U on this chart then it's on par with latest Intel Tiger Lake i7-1165G7.
Real-World Test: Photoshop for Apple Silicon is a Game-Changer
Adobe finally released the full version of Photoshop for Apple Silicon, and we have good news: it's fast... really, really fast.
faster than any mobile chip listed above - and this is just the first round of optimizations for the m1 - photoshop has had decades of tuning for x86
It is actually tested here:
Real-World Test: Photoshop for Apple Silicon is a Game-Changer
Adobe finally released the full version of Photoshop for Apple Silicon, and we have good news: it's fast... really, really fast.petapixel.com
faster than any mobile chip listed above - and this is just the first round of optimizations for the m1 - photoshop has had decades of tuning for x86
That's rubbish since it's not like for like comparison. They need to compare laptop vs laptop and not desktop vs laptop. Should've used a MBP M1 vs latest 11th gen Intel Tiger Lake.
Hardware change though 😉 the boost is coming from the Neural cores.
Every time we had an architecture change we got a big boost. From 68k to PPC, from PPC to Intel, from Intel to Apple Silicon.
Media Encoder is ready but in beta. Should be release with Premiere very soon. AE is still Intel.