7/31/2023 0 Comments Cubase 10 pro full mac![]() It's so cool to hear a very similar experience to my own. Many people will point out all of the different software I could use that takes advantage of Apple Silicon’s GPU performance better than Blender can. I would love nothing more than to get rid of this PC and switch to a Mac Pro. I miss it so much that I use a Studio Display with my PC with a janky adapter. When I’m on my PC, I miss AirDrop, I miss iMessage, and I miss the Apple experience. I’ve been using MacBooks my entire life, and Mac OS is where I most feel comfortable. ![]() For my workflow, the Mac Pro simply does not cut it. Much of this comparison is unfair my PC uses more than double the wattage of the Mac Pro and uses proprietary rendering techniques that vastly improve performance, but that is the current landscape. NVIDIA has the advantage of the OPTiX ray-tracing engine, and while Blender added Metal support for Apple Silicon rendering, it’s an inefficient translation layer and doesn’t come close to the optimization of OPTiX. Some of this performance is simply due to the need for more support for Apple Silicon. I constantly had to set up shots without real-time lighting just to properly see the scene as I was composing the shot. Rendering times, in practice, are sometimes two to three times slower, and due to factors such as the lack of hardware ray tracing, viewport performance is a massive downgrade. In my testing in Blender of the highest-end M1 Ultra and the M2 Max MacBook Pro (to take into account the fixed GPU scaling), I was disappointed with the performance. GPU performance, especially when it comes to 3D rendering, has never been a strong point for Apple Silicon, and despite Apple’s claims that their highest end SOC’s share the performance of NVIDIA’s latest offerings at much lower power efficiency, in the real world, this isn’t the case. ![]() The new Mac Pro actually appears to use the same approximately 1000W power supply as the old Mac Pro, but considering that Apple made no claims as to performance upgrades from the M2 Ultra Mac Studio, it is expected that much of this will go unused.Ĭompared to my RTX 4090, the M2 Ultra Mac Pro GPU performance is lacking. The fact that the M2 Ultra, a very powerful SOC, is able to run at such a low wattage is very, very impressive, but as somebody who simply needs the most performance possible, it doesn’t make a difference for my work. My current PC, a custom-built PC with a Ryzen 5900X and RTX 4090, runs at a maximum of 700 to 800 watts with the GPU using up to a staggering 450 watts, and that’s completely fine. The issue is that the impressive “performance per watt” that Apple advertises doesn’t matter on a machine like the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro, which starts at $6,999 for the base model, is forever stuck with the same CPU, GPU, and soldered RAM, and especially at the speed Apple Silicon has been progressing, this is a real shame.Īpple Silicon is genuinely remarkable and comes with many benefits, including blazing-fast CPUs and absurd efficiency. That is all Apple gave their professional users in the ways of upgradability. Mac Pro: Unleashed Potential, Chained by SiliconĬompared to the new M2 Ultra Mac Studio, the Mac Pro has upgradeable storage and six PCI-E slots that can be used for adding cards, such as high-speed storage, networking, or specialized cards like those necessary for music production. Unfortunately, Apple stuck with the same M2 Ultra SOC from the Mac Studio, and besides adding PCI-E expandability, the computers are nearly identical. With early rumors of an “M2 Extreme,” with double the computing power of the M2 Ultra, I was very excited about the Mac Pro and hoped it could finally replace my custom-built PC I use for 3D graphics at 9to5Mac. The Apple Silicon Mac Pro is here, but it still won’t replace my custom-built PC for 3D rendering and graphics work at 9to5Mac.Īpple has finally revealed their long-awaited Apple Silicon Mac Pro, and I won’t be buying one.
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