I am thinking of upgrading my 2019 MacBook Pro to the new MBP Pro Max. I have seen the benchmark performance stats posted by users and they show a clear performance advantage for Windows although the comparison is usually between Windows desktops vs Mac laptops. I have not been able to find out any real world comparisons in terms of time elapsed while up scaling say a 1080p file to 4K. Would appreciate if users can advise what the real world processing results are in terms of time elapsed
For the same price, you can probably get a Windows laptop that will run it faster, but it’s hard to find one made with sufficient cooling built-in. And that’s the reason you don’t see many Windows laptops being used to run TVAI on these forums. They tend to burn out after a few short months.
Thanks for responding. Unfortunately a desktop is not an option for me. I just wanted to get a sense of how my processing speeds would improve in terms of time elapsed if I upgraded from a 2019 Intel based MBP to a new M3 MBP Max
Oh it’s Intel based? In that case you should easily get three or more times the speed out of even a M1 Max MBP.
There’s not much difference in speed between the M1, M2 and M3. The main speed differences come from if it’s Max, Ultra or not.
Thanks that’s very helpful. Any sense of the likely performance increase between a M1, M2 and M3 Max in terms of time elapsed upscaling from 1080p ti 4k?
Sorry I don’t know. I just know that the benchmark speeds are all about the same.
Look at videos on YouTube by ArtisRight. He does lots of benchmark tests on Macs using photo software.
It is probably worth waiting for the release of M4 Macs, coming soon.
Thanks. Good idea since the release is iminent
I have M3 MBP Max Memory 128 GB, upscaling from 1080p to 4K takes long time, usually > 8 hours or more depending upon movie size. I use M2 Ultra as which is little bit faster than MBP, but still takes many hours to render the job.
Thanks. That sounds like a 4:1 or 6:1 ratio in terms of time elapsed vs time of movie. That would be a huge improvement over my 2019 Intel MBP where the ratio is more like 30:1 for a 15 min video sometimes even 50:1 for a short 2 min clip using Iris 1080p to 4k. That’s why I can only really consider upscaling 480p or 720p to 1080p on my current machine. 1080p to 4k just takes too long to be practical
Thanks smdow. Where did you pull this from? I will likely pull the trigger on a new M4 MBP Pro Max. I take it Max is the way to go with 16” screen rather than the Pro model. Any advice on specs especially RAM as I think I read somewhere that extra RAM doesn’t really help on Topaz beyond a certain point
It is on the apple website. MacBook Pro - Apple —under overview , then “go deeper on M4 chip” then select "video editing " and you will see it there.
Go to Max RAM 128 GM to get better outcome>
Thanks
Interesting Website and testing
Interesting. Not entirely sure though how this relates to TVAI performance. Assuming these reflect likely performance running TVAI then the data suggests to me that the sweet spot is the M4 Pro as it is equal to M4 Max in single core and only about 20% less in the multi core benchmark despite a pretty significant price difference between the two machines. Am I reading the data correct?
Max has more core (16 C) vs Pro (14 C), and Max memory 128Gb vs Pro 48Gb. Max could be better in real world.
Those are good points but the premium price for the upgrades still seems a bit high to me given the benchmark performance difference especially for an amateur power user like me
If the difference between an m3max and m4max is only 4 seconds, then I might as well upgrade to a M3max with more ram and a bigger drive than going to an M4.
I want to see comparisons using actual Topaz Photo AI between M3 and M4. I guess I have to wait for ArtisRight, huh?