Had a MacBook Pro 14 m1 with 16gb of memory that ran about half the speed of my Windows PC with 3090 12900K, sold the Mac book pro and got the studio ultra, now it’s a few seconds faster than the PC. So don’t see how the mini could be faster than the Ultra.
We are all saying speeds for video render - but not saying exactly what our input file specs are, our settings in VEAI and then our output file specs.
Everything is meaningless unless the same file type is used and tested with the same settings and same output file specs.
The OS you are running could have an effect too (in addition to any other software running and monitor(s) output resolution).
My Mac Mini M1s run macOS Ventura with 16GB RAM. They output to a 4K monitor via HDMI.
My input file is a QuickTime h.264 file at 640x480p (using the x.264 codec).
I use the Proteus Med Setting with no grain output to a 720p MP4 file, setting 12.
My speed averages .08 to .10 seconds per frame. All my files are located on the Mini’s SSD drive.
I’m using version 2.6.4 and no other application is running of significance.
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All my tests are on 3.0 and above, using proteus on manual, with file export type H265. According to one of the engineers working on VEAI. On the M1 chip, the order of importance when determining speed are neural cores, graphic cores and cpu cores in that order. The mini and the Mac Pro have the same number of neural cores. That would explain why the mini is faster, the MacBook Pro probably throttles after a while. The ultra had double the neural core, which is line with the speed differences I saw. Now that is with proteus, other enhancements like Artemis might rely more on GPU cores, etc.
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I want to see the benchmarks from a M1 Ultra.
Hi All,
Could any Mac Studio user post the benchmark results, you can run the benchmark within the app.
For comparison, here’s the benchmarks results from my M1 Max:
Version 3.2.2
Topaz Video AI v3.2.2
System Information
OS: Mac v13.0301
CPU: Apple M1 Max 32 GB
GPU: Apple M1 Max 21.333 GB
Processing Settings: device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 8.46 fps 2X: 5.47 fps 4X: 2.20 fps
Proteus 1X: 8.31 fps 2X: 5.33 fps 4X: 2.06 fps
Gaia 1X: 2.56 fps 2X: 1.92 fps 4X: 1.45 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 7.76 fps Chronos: 3.03 fps Chronos Fast: 5.20 fps
Cheers
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Not sure yet if this goes for all videos, but so far i’ve had massive speed improvements by converting the file to MKV first and also set Topaz pref to create MKV. Also i have several issues with audio sync therefore i choose to let Topaz convert with no audio after i add (replace) audio with free program called Shutter. Works great!
