The M1 iMac wasn’t far behind though, at a minute and 4 seconds. The Intel PC managed it in a very speedy 56 seconds. There were some noticeable performance slowdowns with both systems, but neither really performed any worse than the other.įor rendering a 30-second clip containing two 5.9K 24fps 10-bit 4:2:0 files, sampled down to 4K 24fps H.264 was sent to both machines and they were left to render.

To put them to the test, though, they threw some 5.9K 24fps, 10-bit 4:2:0 footage from the Panasonic S1H at them with some multitrack picture-in-picture. They didn’t test Premiere Pro, because apparently, they’re not big fans of Premiere Pro. When it comes to video, DaVinci Resolve was the main comparison between the two. Obviously, in these first couple of examples, Lightroom is optimised more for Intel-based systems while Capture One’s M1 optimisation is very impressive. I think this lends itself well to demonstrating how well optimised certain applications are for specific platforms. When it came to Capture One, though, the results were a little closer. It was basically twice as fast (which you’d expect if you’re paying twice as much). But is it? The Windows laptop hammered the M1 desktop in the Lightroom test. With that massive price difference, it seems a bit of an unfair comparison, really. It’s half the price of Chris’ laptop, at $1,699 and features an 8-core M1, 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Coming in at $3,499 (although it’s currently available for $2,999), it’s not an inexpensive machine, by any stretch of the imagination. Jordan’s 24″ M1 iMac, on the other hand, is significantly less expensive. Chris’ PC in this case is the Gigabyte Aero 15 YB, with an 11th Gen Intel i9 CPU, 32GB RAM and NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU with 8GB RAM.

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