M1 MBA or MBPro - difference in video editing

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jdc wrote:
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Here’s an older piece that addresses throttling:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/...con-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,"

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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.

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Fritz wrote:
def 16G ram.

Definitely.

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