MBP 16 2.3 I9 16gb and After Effects

[carambo]

Just lost my old MBP mid 2012 16gb, so I bought a brand new MBP 16 2.3 16gb. I am doing a lot of After Effects and my old MBP was doing the job but I had to launch before going to sleep the most demanding template as it takes easily few hours to render. I thought my new MBP would literally smoke my old MBP, was expecting that the live rendering would be flawless, but well, it's going 2x faster for sure but that's not amazing, was expecting more after 8 years generation gap...May be I am expecting too much ! The same template on the new MBP goes also slightly faster than my MacPro 2010 with a RX580 8gb + 32Gb RAM, I would say 30% faster. On the other hand FCPX is way faster and flawless, plugins are loading instantly and it's much faster than my old Mac Pro

 

[arche3]

in current version of AE. if you use GPU render inside after effects. set to open CL. it is way faster than metal. also do not use Media Encoder. that is slow AF.

 

[carambo]

Txs, the option available are Mercury GPU acceleration (Metal) or Mercury Software only, you mean the later ? Didn't see a difference actually playing with both.

 

[arche3]

Txs, the option available are Mercury GPU acceleration (Metal) or Mercury Software only, you mean the later ? Didn't see a difference actually playing with both.

Oh yeah. In AE. Its metal. Yup. Use metal in AE instead of media encoder. A 7 second render with mocha pro tracking and decent amount of animation, etc... takes 18 minutes via metal inside Media Encoder. The same clip inside AE metal render takes 15 SECONDS.

Inside premiere pro open CL render is much faster than metal.

Latest versions of Adobe.

 

[carambo]

AE 2020 here, there is no difference between Metal or not, I guess it's the consequence the way AE handles the GPU. In November when the MBP 16 with AMD GPU was released, AE simply didn't work ! Now it works but clearly not optimized...