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MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
What is the performance hit when running Pro Tools on a new MacBook Pro M1 MAX running under Rosetta 2 vs native?
Monterey memory leak situation aside for now. Yes I know @JFreak Monterey is currently a car crash Under Rosetta 2 emulation with commonly used plugins, is it in the 70 to 80% range? I know it is hypothetical at this stage, but how would you call it? I should know this myself, as I have 13 M1 MBP and run a number of casual tests comparing the MBP to my i9 Hackintosh. I estimate that the MBP is down about 20 to 35% under emulation, compared to what I would expect to see in my homebrew benchmarks. Just trying to work out, if now would be a good time to put in an order before Pro Tools is fully native and if I can put to use right away on some demanding mixing sessions. It will likely take 5 to 6 weeks to get anyways... |
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Re: MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
Problems aside, good news is Apple Silicon seems to be able to distribute plugin load more evenly to all cores. Difference is massive compared to Intels. This M1 mac mini (4+4 cores) feels just as good as 10-core Xeon even though this only has 4 performance cores.
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Re: MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
Looks pretty amazing actually an this is only the base 14" MBP with M1 Pro chip (with 1 TB SSD upgrade)
https://youtu.be/9P3Rc2jFYns
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System : Studio - Avid Carbon interface , PT Ultimate 2023.12 Mid 2020 (intel) iMac 27" Ventura 13.2 .1 Mobile - 2021 14 " MBP M1 Pro PT Ultimate 2023.12.1 Sonoma 14.4 Enjoy the Journey.... Kev... |
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Re: MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
Mixing is easier to the system than recording, and you can use higher buffers too. If this works, mixing will work too.
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Re: MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
Maybe, but not directly comparable. With the range of plugins these days that have intensive oversampling especially. I am specifically asking about mixing power - and how much down on CPU overhead is running Pro Tools under Rosetta 2 vs expected native headroom?
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Re: MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
In my testing (I have a fully loaded M1 mac mini) I have found that Apple Silicon uses all performance cores evenly and can confirm that the video linked above is just what I see here. It also looks like this box has comparable processing power to 10-core 3.0GHz Mac Pro (2013) which I think is impressive.
However, some plugins are not behaving well on Rosetta, so for mixing purposes you better wait out until there is at least native PT software and native plugins start dropping.
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MacBook Pro M1 MAX mixing performance with Pro Tools anyone? |
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Re: MacBook Pro M1 MAX - Pro Tools Performance?
Probably not that machine. But if this box performs well, the MAX will perform better. My point was performance is not always dependent on hardware power, and in this case software is limiting.
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So you did not "miss it " because you did not ask about it Even so I would think being able to record 400 audio tracks, all with two plugins ( apparently not CPU intensive plugins ) But still ,,,considering he was recording all that running @ 32 sample buffer, all at the same time, I would think that would amount to a pretty good amount of headroom for most mixing situations .. Now he did not record any VI's in the PT portion but he was playing back some 30 in the Logic portion with 90 audio and then later played back 200 VI tracks..... now how that reflect on the difference between Rosetta and Native I have no clue ...
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