Here’s a breakdown of Apple’s powerful new laptops and desktops, and the kind of person each one is suited for. The big difference is that the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iMac get the added bonus of a fan, which can keep things a bit cooler (if occasionally louder) than the fanless MacBook Air.Ĭhoosing between these similarly beastly machines can be tricky, but we’re here to make that decision easier for you. Apple’s new M1 processor replaces the Intel chips found in older models, something we’ve found to deliver a major increase in performance in our testing. The good news is that all of these machines offer a similar amount of power - and you get a lot of it. That begs the question: Do you go with the all-in-one convenience of the iMac, the portability of the MacBook Pro or Air, or the flexibility of the Mac Mini? If the GPU however falls flat on its face during the creation process, that’ll be an unacceptable bottleneck, especially when eGPUs are not supported.With the arrival of the gorgeous new 24-inch iMac, Apple now has a full suite of compact and ridiculously fast computers powered by the company’s M1 processor. If you work with proxy footage that still looks great and only the rendering to a final format is slow, that is much more acceptable since it won’t hurt the author during the creation process. That said, it depends on WHEN it is too slow. I agree - with 2.6 teraflops, although unclear how that translates to real world use, seems like a modest GPU and underpowered for high end work.

Has anyone seen any gpu benchmarks posted?

But perhaps there will be a future model that has expandable memory, or at least more memory options, dedicated gpu or egpu support, etc. I don't see this Mac Mini being used for any serious editing work. This as a massive impact on speed of workflow. A slow GPU means far fewer real time renders of transitions and effects. Especially since it's sharing RAM with everything else. Having said that, a lot of it depends on what kind of optimisations they've done with the OS.īut conventional thinking would reckon 16GB is quite tight for high end video work.ġ6GB is tight for high end web browsing. My question, however, is whether or not it can run Resolve, Final Cut, Frame.io, Adobe and Nuke all at the same time. I agree that the new M1 chip looks like it could run any of those apps and get great performance.

Imac vs mac mini video editing