It runs great already. I used the beta already as a daily driver. There is one bug that if you apply a LUT in the export window then the video exported is just blank. You have to apply the LUT on the timeline.
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Adobe Says Photoshop on M1 Runs 50% Faster Than 2019 Intel-Based MacBook
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This doesn’t make you look like some super smart rebel. It makes you look cheap and ignorant. Use them if you must but if you don’t understand other people’s workflows and file formats then don’t impose your ignorance on them.
Affinity Photo won’t even read complex layers from Photoshop correctly or export them correctly back to Photoshop. So if you have to share files with big teams and companies they won’t be happy with you. And forget about integration with After Effects.
There is no difference in performance between a MacBook Pro m1 and the Mac mini m1.
There might be a small performance difference between the Mac mini and MacBook Air which is fanless. I’ve test those 2 and largest I saw was less than 5% on a long running Lightroom export. I’ll try photoshop when I have a chance
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but Adobe says "with similar configuration", so I suppose that the M1 GPU is compared to the intel iris, which is several times slower.
As you probably know the Mac Mini has the same system on chip as the MBP M1 and has similar cooling. In some cases the MBP slightly out performs the mac mini (and vice versa), so should have very similar results. My guess is the only Mac M1 they had to test was the mini.
They also show the results native against emulation which is what the focus of the article is.
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M1 Mac SSD wear probably won't kill your machine - 9to5Mac
Concerns about excessive M1 Mac SSD wear may be exaggerated, suggests a piece today. Reports had earlier suggested that some machines ...9to5mac.com
That’s… a lot of text that says surprisingly little.
“So yep, if you’re speccing up an M1 Mac, you’ll want to factor in SSD wear. If you expect your usage to be RAM-intensive, and/or write a lot of data, then 16GB RAM is better than 8GB, and a large SSD is better than a small one. But panic about M1 Mac SSD wear killing machines in less than a year are likely highly exaggerated.”
How is someone supposed to make a purchasing decision based on this?
The author could’ve run some tests comparing various systems, but that would’ve required actual effort.
The missing features are not used by most folks.
You say ”not ready for prime time.” These folks say “game changer”:
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
I’m kind of with mi1chy on this one. A comparison against a Tiger Lake-UP3 laptop would’ve been more interesting.
The issue with these benchmarks is that at least for me, I don’t understand how the numbers translate to seconds on the clock.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.
Until some SSDs are actually worn out, I will reserve my panic. Guesstimates are currently in the 10 year range, and that include initial setup AI facial recognition of your photos and so on. in 10 years, I will be using a different computer. Hell, there may be some new storage technology by then.
Even the CPU is designed to only last 11.2 years. Yes many last longer, but that is the design.
If the SSD lasts 11.2 years, you're golden.
This sounds great, but I think people are raising their hopes too much thinking that M1 is 50% faster then that means M2 will be 300% faster! I think this was the big jump, while M2 will be faster I think it will be like an incremental jump from M1.
What I am trying to say is that the jump from M1->M2≠ Intel->M1 , much less. I think....
What I am trying to say is that the jump from M1->M2≠ Intel->M1 , much less. I think....
It looks like the mac mini m1 via emulation is about the same as an i7 mac mini and not the low end i3 which the m1 price range is comparable to.
Looking at these scores from
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.
and comparing mac mini's
PugetBench for Creators
PugetBench for Creators is designed to test professional workloads in the most popular video editing, photography, VFX, and motion graphics applications.
www.pugetsystems.com
Natively the M1 is doubling some of the test metrics (compared to rosetta) and well ahead on others. Strangely the test using the GPU is way behind, although the GPU is far better on the m1 mini rivalling the discrete MacBook 16 inch. Perhaps Adobe has more work to do in this regard.
As a user it does not matter to me what part of the processor is doing the work; Neural cores, cpu or gpu. As long as it is working out better and cheaper for me I am happy!
The Power PC to intel change although I was impressed at the time with most apps, photoshop CS2 was not one of the ones that gained any speed but was really a downgrade. There were a lot of complaints last time around
Apple PowerBook G4 1.5GHz vs. MacBook Pro 2.0Ghz Adobe Photoshop benchmarks
I've run some benchmarks on Apple's new MacBook Pro running an application that hasn't been optimized for the Intel chip yet...
macdailynews.com
I had a a g4 iBook 933mhz at the time and core duo and core solo (mac mini) intel speeds never really surpassed that until later versions of both hardware via emulation and CS3 was launched. With Photoshop the real gains were made with core 2 duo which was around 40% faster in some photoshop tasks.
The price the M1 mac mini is comparable with the core solo Mac Mini worse than the G4 it replaced in many areas including Photoshop.
From https://everymac.com/systems/apple/...-mini-core-speed-compared-to-mac-mini-g4.html
Apple's Rosetta translation technology works very well on the new minis, but there is a significant speed hit. In our Adobe Photoshop CS2 test suite, for example, both models performed much slower than even the [Mac mini G4] 1.25 GHz, taking 51 percent longer (Core Duo) and 117 percent longer (Core Solo) to complete their tasks.
On the other hand the M1 has been on par or exceeding most other notebook macs and minis regardless of the class they are in whilst under rosetta emulation.
Hard to say, but that's probably not the case if the number of cores is the same. The A CPUs were almost 30% faster compared to the previous generation.
I have to say after using Adobe software for decades (since Photoshop 2.5). The affinity suite has won me over. Publisher especially is very user friendly and faster than either Quark or Indesign even on old systems. On the M1 mini it really flies!!!
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When it came out, it was. We'll be talking about how slow the M1 chip is in 5 years time.
And apparently some reports of Intel macs having issues too. So lets not go crazy here.
Unfortunately, there are still some killer features in Illustrator and Photoshop that do not exist in Affinity software. Also, Affinity does have issues with very complex PSD files.
Unfortunately both of my older macs crapped out with in a few months of each other so going to pull the trigger on a 16” MBP as I need something. When the new 16” comes out I’ll probably trade this one in buy the new one. I am excited about the Apple SoC just can’t be without a computer right now.
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Looks like M1 is also susceptible to Spectre.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/12/google_spectre_code/
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Looks like M1 is also susceptible to Spectre.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/12/google_spectre_code/
Look at Windows PC marketshare, where Intel dominates.
Intel would be worried once competitors like Qualcomm, together with PC OEMs and Microsoft, have a completely viable and high performing and cheap Arm based Windows machine with good backward compatibility. It will happen, but it's not anytime soon.
Those complexities should surprise anyone. The fact is, Adobe can't parse anything from Affinity, but the leaps of improvements Affinity's Suite is showing will soon have it surpassing Adobe's equivalent offerings, and that's actually sad seeing as they were the pioneers in each of these categories.
I don't know about Photoshop as I don't use it but I have been very impressed with my M1 Macbook Air. Fantastic machine.