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Let's be honest. Apple Silicon is changing the landscape as we speak.

m1 Macs a killing it this year, great video max

Apple just releases one type of Mac while the competition is pumping out tons and still can’t compete.

I personally prefer windows because I'm a gamer on top of being a designer (I own a G14) and I gotta say, Apple's new Arm silicon is awesome; I can't wait until the entire industry moves away from x86!

Looking forward to the 2021 Macs.

Dude i cant believe that you miss the text layer 😅 but it doesnt matter, your videos are great

I’m so happy these M1 Macs have come along. Gone are years of frustration with under-performing Apple laptops. As a filmmaker, I’m the middle of a large corporate project and my Mac Mini is powering through 4k multicam edits and rendering long, heavy timelines with ease and I never have to ask my client to wait for rendering, as before. These M1’s are the new baseline for speed and everyone else is going to have to catch up.

Ok guys I wanted to do some tougher tests, but it looks like that Windows laptops are a joke compared to M Macs..

Max you make the best comparison videos comparing the specs that actually matter to us video editors and colorists. FWIW there is a setting in Premiere that will let you know with a green or yellow indicator in the viewer if it's dropping frames but I can't remember where to find the setting. Looking forward to more comparisons with the M1

These new macs win in every category, even the price and that’s without even mentioning the power consumption... will x86 market even recover from this? Probably not

Oh man. This was supposed to be Intel’s best showing? Supposedly revolutionary???

My new M1 MacBook Air was the best laptop purchase of my life. Your videos helped me alot, keep it up Max & Vadim!

Ups.. Missing a text layer at the beginning. Awesome review🔥🔥🔥

For video editing Apple silicon is now in a completely different league. I have a feeling Apple will own this market for a good decade or more. I’m expected thousands of these kind of videos on KZfaq next year. All with much the same results when comparing computers at the same price point.

The storyblock sponcer is quite nice I’ve been looking for something like that, thanks man

When GPU aren’t fully utilized in poor video processing, one can guess that the bottleneck is in the data feed pipeline, the GPU is data starved.

basically, go for the M1 and FCPX

I think we can safely say Intel is out. Would be great if you can do a comparison of M1 with Ryzen 7 4800H laptop.

That Alert Error was the star of the show this time 👏

You did a lot of test, but I think you miss 1 of most important one. M1 chip has a 16-core Neural Engine which is showing an incredible performance in ML tasks. Can you do comparison? Пожалуйста)

Are you using the free or Studio version of resolve? If free then it isn't really a good comparison as on Windows you have to have Studio for GPU acceleration while on OSX you have it on the free version also.

I love the missing titles in all your videos

Great rewiev as always, please open dropped frame indicator on premiere pro!

I love the confidence of uploading a video about editing that has missing text assets in the first 20 seconds. Decent comparison though.

Great video Max. Most likely the Xe GPU is maxed out but Windows Task Manager shows the 3D engine utilization by default. If you check other counters like Compute or Video Decode, you might find that maxed out and that's the real bottleneck.

Just Josh has a very interesting review of the Lenovo Yoga 7 Pro AMD version, great multicore performance and thermals.

Intel Xe may be better than the previous generation, but it's still Intel integrated graphics, so I wouldn't expect a whole lot. Intel's never been known for their graphics prowess. I wonder how much performance would pick up if Intel handed all the encode/decode work to a dedicated processor like Apple does with the T2. But until that happens, I will definitely be getting a MBP.

Apple all the way, baby...

Great Video Bratux. Been an avid Mac user for years and my daily is a perfectly running X299 hack and just seeing those benchmarks on the M1s makes me realize that in a few years when the platform matures I'll be buying a real mac once again. Kind of looking forward to it and what the MacPro line of products will bring to the table. Either way thanks for sharing your perspective. Happy New Year.

Do you feel the 16 GB of ram makes a huge difference? A lot of reviewers says 8 GB does the trick, I started editing and I was thinking about getting the 16 GB version.

Very useful. I understand or I guess the Premiere Beta for M1 would leverage the M1 Machine Learning parts, yet I wonder as Tiger Lake also advertises Machine Learning benefits, is it the case that Premiere is also still to be optimized for Tiger Lake or has it been done already?

I would say that i’ve bought an air m1 also thanks to your videos😂 btw, could u please mention the name of the apps that u use to check temps and cpu/gpu usage?

I think we call that a spanking...

If you click on the GPU part in task manager it breaks it down by engine - it could be that an encoder is 100% used while the shader compute isn't, etc, and then the main display mixes it in a weird way so you may see 50%

Apple MX chips is the future . The Windows era is over imo.

Max, enable the frame rate indicator on Premiere next time, it adds a small green dot and it turns yellow it if drops frames and tells you how much, i think it's right click on the program monitor, i don't remember exactly since i changed to Davinci Resolve since 2018. As for the maxing of the cards, it might be that Windows reads something else. If you max out the encoder engine in the Windows machine but Windows reads also the graphics processing load ... you will not get a 100% reading.

Hey max...macbook air with 16gb ram or base macbook pro...which should I buy ?

If you would test on Power supply, results will be much different because Mac uses full power on battery whether Razer not

I'm working in a school - rendering test: 2020 MAC 27" - 10 hours after effects proj; 2012 i7 not branded graphic card on board - 3 hours. Same project, sam ram.

Another great video!. Happy New Year!

I m going for m1 air tommorow 🤗

What about the battery usage? It would be great to see the battery depletion of each laptop while you do these tasks!

That's interesting. I'm just thinking about buying a new windows machine instead of using my old macbook. For more or less the same money I can have an: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H RTX20606GB 32GB DDR4 1TB SSD Not looking as fancy as an MBP or other laptops, but still. Who needs a fancy laptop while editing RAW footage?

Really impressive. Great real life examples there. Makes my 13” i7 Mac and my 2020 Dell XPS look absolutely obsolete. I’ll be skipping the gen1 M1s - and await the more beefier 15” version, gonna be incredible!!

I kinda want to own both the laptops but since MacBooks perform really well.... I bought M1 MacBook Air

thanks for the comparison, exactly what I needed

I'm confused, where are the Ryzen comparisons? You guys know Ryzen beats lost of intels cpus right?

What about the M1 MacBook Air?

Hey Max! When we will see the full test with the M1 Mac Mini? Btw thanks for all the hard work you put in these videos!

Hey Max I have a7siii but I have a big issue when I export footage from atomos ninja v. My premiere pro just crashes Adobe encodes crashes too. Are old mac computer limited to use prores raw? I am using MacOS Catalina retina 2012 version 10.15.7

4 cores is quite disappointing for $1600 in 2021.

Would be interesting to see how M1 Chip handles Fuji X-T3 / X-T4 H.265 4K60p 10bit 200Mbit import/export with LUT applied.. :)

Thinking of getting one of the M1 laptops. Is the Graphics and RAM usage at the top of the screen an add-on? If so what is it?

Oh no, looks like you're overloading the Windows machine with all that Task Manager multitasking 😆

Good comparison. Enjoyed the video.

Max, can you do a test on M1 with Blender, ZBrush, substance painter, etc? :D

How about an image quality test comparing the end results of the HEVC render? There are rumblings that the M1 IQ is not up to par with the current Intel after exporting and it would explain the speed gains if the M1 IQ is compromised.

Have you compared the file output sizes between the two machines to compare compression efficiency? Encode time is very arbitrary when compression quality isn't taken into consideration. One can always lessen compression efficiency for the sake of speed.

I'm a little confused, at 1:20 it says m1 13" mbp with 16 gb of ram, I don't see the 16 gb ram option on the apple store, am I missing something? The only 16gb ram version of the macs I see don't have the M1 chip and are more expensive, was this specific model discontinued?

Good morning. I watched the video well. In your video, we tested the MacBook and the 11th generation Intel's built-in graphics and CPU. By the way, Premiere Pro doesn't completely rely on the GPU, but it does help. Among the information you know, which product has a higher speed of video editing, such as a MacBook and a notebook with a graphics card with a GTX1650 or higher (intel 1165G7 CPU if possible)?

Did you do similar comparison with ryzen 7?

Make comparison with ryzen 5800U

bit of an apples vs oranges comparison

Excellent! Just to clarify: did Razer have a free or studio version of DR? AFAIK, free version benefits from greater hardware acceleration on mac rather than Windows...

I'm seeing conflicting conclusions on the M1. As a Premiere Pro user is it smarter to upgrade to the M1 or stick with windows based? Thanks

i was thinking which to buy, macbook m1 or intel iris xe with i7. well, clearly going for the macbook lol. even in 2024 the mac is a beast compared to windows laptops from 2020.

Very interesting video Max ! Liked, commented and Subscribed :D

Thanks for this video. I am one of those who jumped ship from Apple about 5 years ago, my final Apple product, the Macbook Pro 2015. Well, since the release of M1 Apple Silicon, I may reconsider. My heaviest use scenarios on Windows is Davinci Resolve 17. I am impressed with the advancements in performanced achieved by Apple's silicon. I had an M1 Mac Mini on order in late December but cancelled the order. I generally wait for at least 2nd generation of any thing before making a purchase decision. Somewhere I read there was silicon with a 10Gbe onboasrd in the parts list, and yet, it is not offered as an option for the M1 Mac Mini. Also 4 thunderbolt ports reduced to 2 also is not attractive. I am sure these are more marketing strategies by Apple rather then technological limitations. Piecemeal feed tech to the market to be able to sell another round of M1X ? Mac Minis. Anyway, this year I may finally make the move either for a 2nd Gen MacMini or the Macbook Pro 16". We'll see as to what specs and ports Apple offers as well as gains of a secon generation of Apple silicon. Thus far, rumored, the Mag safe is returning, and the touch bar is going away. I wish that Apple would finally get around to giving us a touch screen, or at least an orderable option. I really enjoy your videos. Very knowledgeable, well-organized and professional. Thanks.

I'm planning to buy Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 15.6 inch as my primary machine 'cause I'm traveling so much lately. I thought of buying m1 13 inch first, but the screen size is not in my favor. My most of the video editing work is heavy 1080p. Do you think that i7 with iris Xe graphics laptop will be able to handle heavy 1080p video editing and I'm also gonna work on after effects 1080p projects?

One serious question: Do you believe that in the future, the usage of the CPU and iGPU of the Razer will become optimized ?? Theoretically speaking A future DaVinci and Premiere Pro version may be able to fully utilise the Iris Xe iGPU Also a a firmware update by Intel could also be beneficial as it is the first Iris integrated GPU. For YEARS intel offered UHD gpus which were nothing more than a beefed up version of the Intel HD graphics

Whats up with the font error?

Oh man, the M1 chip is impressive.

Thanks for this video. Was it 8 bits or 10 bits files? I really think I'm gonna switch from Windows to Mac. Just not sure if 16GB of RAM is enough because we can see the Mac was swapping 6GB just on a 5 minutes project.

did you use intel quick syc?

great comparison! how do show cpu and gpu usage in the top though?

I haven’t read all the reactions, so perhaps you already found out. The reason both GPU and CPU aren’t maxed out on some of the benchmarks in the first half of the video has to do with the fact the GPU and CPU don’t have access to the same addresses in RAM. Everything in the CPU’s memory address space needs to be copied over to GPU RAM before the graphics chip can work on it (and vice versa) and this creates a bottleneck. This is even true in X86 systems that use integrated graphics. The Macs so unified memory solution does not suffer from this limitation.

Did you use Intel quick sync video for this?

*PowerDirector stabilizes videos instantly, zero waiting ;)

I also have the iPhone 12 Mini in Project Red ;) I will replace my two PC´s with Macbook Air 13" M1 base model 7-core 8 GB RAM and 256 GB Harddrive and I will have a Mac Mini M1 16 GB RAM and 512 GB Harddrive (maybe I´ll wait for a Mac Mini with M1X/M2 ??)

Hey max try the asus flow 13 its rlly good

Nice video but there are some very wrong assumptions going on. First that's definitely not the best PC laptop for video editing for that price, it's an Intel GPU so no you need to compare with a rtx3060 at minimum, second Windows laptops need to be configured and clean al the blootware that comes from the manufacturer, so the best is to just whype the system and install fresh, it's not pretty but it's windows, after this everyone working with Mac M1s know that for heavy workflow not just play a clip the system overflows, overheats and start to get buggy. Don't get me wrong these are amazing for occasional editing and light work, but not for 8hrs day heavy work with effects and color filters.

I just can’t understand why there are dislikes. Super vid. Maybe windows dudes who are disappointed?

Old days performance windows laps killed mac Now Mac killed windows laps even with fist gen m1

I like how you uploaded the razer review and renamed it 😂😂😂

Do x86 program run the same on a m1

where can I buy the new Razer Book 13? Can't find it anywhere yet

what's the cpu/gpu activity display app called on the mac ?

Where can I find the programs to monitor the CPU/GPU usage and temps?

Missing media icon guys.

I wonder how much of it is poor optimization? I know it's an almost apple to oranges comparison but my relatively elderly Galaxy s9+ can edit 4k x264 and hevc like it's nothing, regardless of what software I use, be it Kinemaster, Premiere Go etc. Obviously the software used here is much more advanced and feature rich but It's crazy that with some software, you can't even get a smooth preview with the Windows laptop. My ancient smartphone won't even break a sweat previewing 4k footage inside the video editors, even with bitrates up towards 200 and I can seek through it as smooth as silk too. My Dell i7 laptop, which is the same age as the phone and in theory should easily edit 4k footage is borderline unusable in Vega Pro and Premiere, even trying to click different places on the timeline results in a long delay and it can't even playback a tiny low res preview at more than a few frames per second. I can only assume it's bad optimization and the hardware not being used to it's potential. Again, I realize the software is very different but the way my phone can so easily throw that footage around and preview it is just effortless and yet my laptop just grinds to a halt with the same footage despite supposedly also having hardware support video decoding and encoding. It's so bad I literally gave up with the laptop and just plug my phone into the monitor and use it with a usb mouse. Even though the editing software has some limitations, I can edit a short video in less than an hour and render it in a few minutes whereas on the laptop, it would take several frustrating sessions over a period of days and never really being exactly sure what the results will be till the file is rendered as the preview is so choppy. It shouldn't take a £1500 macbook just to be able to edit 4k smoothly when my old phone worth maybe £100 can do it with both hands tied behind it's back.

Just compare it with the base mac book air for 1k and it’ll destroy the razer for a much lower price tag

What is the T with the exclamation mark about in the beginning?

Does the razer book sport the same keyboard as on blade 15? If so then it's garbbage. I sold my blade 15 advanced soly because of that shitty keyboard which made me hate typing on it.

I would like to see a real test about exporting a 60 min video with a lot of effects in premiere pro. , to see how the new Mac do compare to Mac intel. Since I am a video editor, I will be interesting to see that. thanks

Can you share a video or stats on transcoding of say 10 mins of red raw or arri raw clips on m1, comparing it to say the imac i9 or MBP?

awesome review. Is it possible to edit h.265 on DaVinci resolve free version?

About slowing-windows-based laptops after unpluging them. Wont be just enough to change power savings plan to max. efficenty ?

I have a doubt, Will the export times improve in Davinci Resolve Studio , compared to Davinci Resolve Free version?

Next video idea. Do your new m1 MacBook vs an AMD desktop of similar price!