

Those performance levels are so far beyond the current M1 they could be way off. That assumes no further per-core enhancements and also discounts any performance advantage of using tile-based deferred rendering, which is possible with the Metal 2 framework. That might be very roughly 70% faster than an RTX-3090.

If you keep projecting along that line, it would imply the rumored Apple Silicon Mac Pro with a 128-core GPU might be roughly 4x that fast, or about 350,000 on Geekbench 5 compute. I'll report back once I have a chance to load a few projects and test the MacBook out more.Ĭlick to expand.If you extrapolate linearly from the published Geekbench 5 compute numbers for the M1, that implies the hypothetical M1X with 32 GPU cores might be at least 30% faster than the 16GB Vega 64 in the iMac Pro. I figure that will be a good stop gap until we get a better look at what the future AS pro machines will look like. I'm going to try to pick up a 6800xt today and put it in my eGPU for use on the iMac Pro. Maxon seems all in on AS, both C4D and Redshift devs were on the M1 launch reel, and the R23 launch reel heavily featured C4D running on Mac OS. AMD is launching cards in spitting distance of Nvidia. We're FINALLY getting metal support in the renderers. I've been hovering over a PC build for a long time and almost pulled the trigger, but now I have serious hope for the future of the Mac in mograph. I have not fully installed all of my plug-ins on the MacBook (this may be the speed difference) or loaded a complex project. It boots in 8 secs on my M1 MacBook, 10 secs on my iMac Pro. After Effects in Rosetta seems to work.You can't even install freaking Acrobat in Big Sur.

Looks like Adobe will finally have to modernize their ancient code in all their Creative Apps to port them over.

There is a M1 native beta for Photoshop, but it is missing a ton of features. Maybe a year or more before we see the entire suite ported. I'm guessing it will be the June release before we see any apps out of beta. Looks like it will be a LONG time before Adobe apps are fully ported.
