If by “comparable” you mean “the best Ryzen there is”
The 2020 Mac Mini Unleashed: Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
And by MacBook Pro you mean the entry level one.
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DaVinci Resolve Video Editor Gains New Processing Engine That's Up to 3 Times Faster on M1 Macs
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And by MacBook Pro you mean the entry level one.
Unified memory is part of the overall system design. But it doesn't end here. The announcement specifically mentions that Blackmagic is making use of Apple's TBDR architecture to achieve better performance and energy efficiency.
With the caveat that the Ryzen model you are taking about is the top of the line desktop configuration where only the CPU costs more than an entire Mac mini
Besides, Zen 3 needs about 20 watts to reach that performance where M1 needs 5 watts. Of course, there is no doubt that Ryzen 5900 series is a much more powerful CPU overall than M1, they occupy entire different categories. At this point, the only Apple Silicon announced is an ultra low-power model that is not designed to complete with high-end desktop or mobile offerings from other manufacturers.
Why is it whenever an article comes out praising the M1’s performance (or in this case, tangentially related to m1 performance ), there’s always someone coming out the woodwork to say “well this gaming laptop technically has better specs”.
Is it an insecurity thing? Like somehow the PC has to “win”?
Who is cross shopping an M1 Mac and an ASUS ROG gaming laptop anyway?
Is it an insecurity thing? Like somehow the PC has to “win”?
Who is cross shopping an M1 Mac and an ASUS ROG gaming laptop anyway?
The difference in the comparison was so huge that it probably won't be enough to get close. The user who apparently works professionally with DaVinci Resolve and had compared it (4K material at 50FPS and sometimes also RAW and several filters) had even jokingly written that the Asus might even be able to take on two M1s.
Ryzen 3If by “comparable” you mean “the best Ryzen there is”
The 2020 Mac Mini Unleashed: Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
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Because some fanboys believe that the M1 is better in performance than anything else. But that is not true. This is only true, if at all, for single core performance. Some fanboys also confuse hardware encoders with software encoders and then come to the wrong conclusions.
I have an M1 myself and I am a Mauser. I like the M1.
I find it easier to use than iMovie. The old iMovie was easy to use, but they changed the way of working years back, and it didn’t feel logical after that. I got up to speed very quickly with Resolve. I was forced into changing because it was the only option I found for editing portrait video (for app store pages), but I am extremely happy I made the move.
People are genuinely impressed by an entry level machine that punches above its weight and are excited for the higher level stuff.
And someone (in this case, you) always have to come in and say “BUT ACKSHUALLY MUH 5950X AND 3080 IS FASTER!”
It’s old. It’s tired. It’s honestly irrelevant. Nobody outside your strawman thinks an M1 is going to out muscle a dedicated high end gpu and a high end cpu with double the threads.
Furthermore it’s not even relevant to this thread. Which is about DaVinci Resolve gaining performance on the M1.
Ryzen 3
Still AMDs top level processor.
But my 5950x and 3080 IS faster
If I am not on the go, I always use my PC for video editing. Otherwise, I just use my M1 Air.
What are you talking about? I compared the M1 with an Asus laptop (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS).
There is nothing weird about the comparison at all, especially for a DaVinci Resolve user.
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I can't say I found Resolve difficult to learn. Watch a couple tutorials and you're good to go
i don’t know about the latest version of DR, but my understanding is the free version does not leverage hardware acceleration. You need to get the Studio (paid) version for it.
I recently built a gaming PC (5600X and RTX 3080) and was disappointed that even there it was taxing only the CPU. The GPU/NVENC wasn’t being used.
That said, I’m currently using Final Cut Pro when I edit. I bought it when those App Store gift cards were 20% off.
Works great. Smooth and exports pretty quick for simple projects.
I recently made my first video after shooting some drone footage following this tutorial:
I had some issues as I'm on PC so my h265 files would not load initially but after getting that sorted out, all went well. I had to export a few times to get a decent quality export (still working on best settings). I've used, years ago, Premiere but this is free, gets updates and is as good as I remember Premiere being (no idea how good Premiere is today or how it compares to FCP or iMovie).
This is why I'm holding out for the pro chips. Gives software time to update and the pro chips will blow all this stuff away even more. I've been thinking about waiting for the second gen pro hardware but I might upgrade earlier. Anyone want to buy a 2019 16" MacBook Pro? I tried using the new Brydge keyboard/trackpad case on my M1 iPad Pro but it just wasn't any good and eventually broke completely. Was going to try to use that for laptop tasks when I'm away from my desktop iMac but I'm starting to think I should just get the new 14" model. I'll be curious to see what kind of GPU performance it has.
Please forgive the newb question - I just downloaded the new Davinci 17.3 - studio version - I have the new iMac with m1 chip and I'm getting a prompt to "reset GPU configuration." I watched a couple of YouTube vids - but still a little confused. Do I just hit "update configuration'? Or do I need to go deeper into the settings? Any help is much appreciated.
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This is true, but Resolve studio ( or the pro version as some people seem to prefer calling it) does that and a few more things it it costs about the same as FCPX. Btw does fcp sopport hdr grading or would you need other tools for that, Resolve studio alkso includes this
The biggest deal is that it’s even free for commercial use! And the limitations are not limiting at all, even for semi-professionals, it’s just super fancy stuff that you can’t use and a limit of 4k for exports. And if you need the pro stuff, I think it’s only like £200 which is a steal given how solid it is.
how they make money? Why would any one pay for premier or final cut or AVID?
You will have to wait a while. There won't be any Linux software to take advantage of the more interesting hardware features.
I have to say, as someone who bought a Mac mini with 16gb memory primarily to edit in FCP I have been left completely unimpressed by the M1. It’s honestly no different to my 2017 iMac. So much so, I genuinely checked the ‘About this Mac’ when I had it because I couldn’t understand what the fuss was about.
A concrete example, you press play on the timeline and it doesn’t even draw in the waveforms until you pause. Why on Earth can’t it do that as it goes if it’s so good?? This is the same on the iMac but I expected better!
This plus the thunderbolts/USB-C compatibility issues with external drives and I’m left wondering if it’s worth keeping.
A concrete example, you press play on the timeline and it doesn’t even draw in the waveforms until you pause. Why on Earth can’t it do that as it goes if it’s so good?? This is the same on the iMac but I expected better!
This plus the thunderbolts/USB-C compatibility issues with external drives and I’m left wondering if it’s worth keeping.
hit update configuration. This problem happens on Windows, Mac and linux. Don't know why it does that.
Totally free with a few limitations. The paid (studio) version is only a few hundred dollars depending on where you live in the world. I used FCP7 until it was killed off, jumped to Premiere for 7 years, and now only use Davinci Studio. It is awesome. Try it out.