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Here's How Much Faster M4 Pro/Max Are for Graphics vs. M3 Pro/Max

flybass said:
A concern of mine is that Apple tends to deprecate by generation of machine rather than by specs. Meaning, I see them trying to deprecate the m1 generation at the same time rather than only some models based on the amount of ram. Hopefully I’m wrong - I have a M1 Max with 64GB ram.
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That’s not unusual for any company. Servicing a product has one set of manuals and one set of training for a product no matter how much RAM or storage a product has. It has little to do with usability of a product and everything to do with keeping spare parts in stock and training they have to do for support purposes. If they want to deprecate the M1 MacBook Pros, for instance, they’ll do it for all of them, not just some of them.
 
tobybrut said:
That’s not unusual for any company. Servicing a product has one set of manuals and one set of training for a product no matter how much RAM or storage a product has. It has little to do with usability of a product and everything to do with keeping spare parts in stock and training they have to do for support purposes. If they want to deprecate the M1 MacBook Pros, for instance, they’ll do it for all of them, not just some of them.
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Agree, but it sort of sucks if the technical reason is ram - and they have to make the cut due to lowest possible specification in the generation- which is very far from mid to high specd machines. Yet another reason for us to be annoyed at the Apple ram apologists.
 
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CBlakeston said:
No benchmarks yet. But the video engines in M1 M2 M3 were the same speed. They expanded to 8K ect but didn’t actually get much faster.

The M4 video engine is twice as fast Apple said during the iPad launch. And the M4 Max has 2 engines.

So regular M4 is as fast as a previous M1 M2 M3 Max chip.

M4 Max is twice as fast as M1 M2 M3 Max chip.

M2 Ultra is still faster for encoding as that has 4 engines.

Note: I’m specifically talking about exporting hardware accelerated codecs in Final Cut. You really need to know what your software and codecs need.

This doesn’t mean regular timeline editing is faster and premiere and resolve are a different story
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Yes my only cares are rendering and export from FCPx as "For Apple 4K devices" at 60fps and HDR.
 
Xade said:
I agree. I'm still using a 2017 MBP as my daily driver and use Fusion 360 a lot. It does struggle a bit sometimes but still looks like new with good battery life (granted it was replaced a few years ago) and goes most places with me. Might be time for an M4 but in the real world do I actually need it?
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I do a lot in Fusion360 on an i9 2019 16" MBP (with 64gb of ram though). Never seen any performance hiccups in CAD, now obviously in Render your computer can never be fast enough (even my liquid cooled PC with a 128gb RAM, intel 12900K and an RTX30390 could be faster) the only place I've ever really had Fusion bog down is in CAM if I am doing one of the fancy adaptive 3D machining paths where it has to do a lot of math, and doesn't seem to utilize all the i9 cores (and the discrete Radeon 5600M GPU isn't all that much of a beast)
 
I guess this is like all the YouTubers showing pictures of new Mac minis in their hands but when you look at the videos they don't have any new Mac minis yet. Mis-lead as always. Pump and dump.Click-baits.
 
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Yup and not even due out in the states till the 10th and it's only now the 3rd. Just curious on lead out times.
 
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