Is there a some way to monitor the usage of the Afterburner card? I have one on the way.
I have both a 16" M1 Max/32c GPU/64GB RAM and a 7,1 Mac Pro/16 core/Pro Vega 2 GPU/96GB RAM. I just tried transcoding a 13 minute 4K file using Compressor with both machines to get a sense of the M1 Max media engine's encode acceleration. 4K, 10-bit, 4:2:2 MXF to 4K ProRes 422.
The Mac Pro finished faster in roughly half the time at 4:13 vs the M1X Max finishing in 7:53. Primarily due to Compressor's ability to use all cores in the Mac Pro.
Aiming to do a mostly ProRes workflow this year on some streaming series and film projects I have this year. Curious to monitor how much more Afterburner benefits things here when I get it in.
I have both a 16" M1 Max/32c GPU/64GB RAM and a 7,1 Mac Pro/16 core/Pro Vega 2 GPU/96GB RAM. I just tried transcoding a 13 minute 4K file using Compressor with both machines to get a sense of the M1 Max media engine's encode acceleration. 4K, 10-bit, 4:2:2 MXF to 4K ProRes 422.
The Mac Pro finished faster in roughly half the time at 4:13 vs the M1X Max finishing in 7:53. Primarily due to Compressor's ability to use all cores in the Mac Pro.
Aiming to do a mostly ProRes workflow this year on some streaming series and film projects I have this year. Curious to monitor how much more Afterburner benefits things here when I get it in.
