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Re: M1 MBA or MBPro - difference in video editing - M A V I C - 02-04-2021
jdc wrote:
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Here’s an older piece that addresses throttling:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/apples-m1-macbook-air-has-that-apple-silicon-magic/
Yep, exactly what I meant. Repeated runs of FCP or benchmarks that are designed to stress the system throttle it.
Again, a few videos a few times a day, meh. 30 videos for hours in a day, MBP all the way.
Depending on workflow, Id prob go with a base MBA for occasional portable editing and then a mini to do all the heavy lifting at my desk.
" it runs at full-bore until the Firestorm cores become too toasty, which seems to take anywhere from 3-ish to 6-ish minutes. Then it backs the Firestorm cores off until they show about 50-percent utilization,"
Re: M1 MBA or MBPro - difference in video editing - Sarcany - 02-04-2021
jdc wrote:
We are all stuck in our old perceptions of how ram works... and its works waaaay differently on M1s
No. It doesn't.
The RAM is on the "chip" with the CPU/GPU, so accessing it is a little faster.
Memory is "pooled" between the CPU and GPU, which is not unlike the way it used to be allocated on old Macs that did not have dedicated GPU-memory.
Apple tweaked the management of the memory in the shared pool. It can reallocate memory between the CPU and GPU on the fly (with a modest, but sometimes detectable delay) so that if the GPU needs more memory, it just grabs it. This is new. It may actually slow down the Mac under some circumstances because a GPU-intensive activity can force CPU operations to use the boot-disk for virtual memory.
So, more memory is potentially waaay better.
Re: M1 MBA or MBPro - difference in video editing - N-OS X-tasy! - 02-04-2021
Fritz wrote:
def 16G ram.
Definitely.
Re: M1 MBA or MBPro - difference in video editing - August West - 02-05-2021
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