

When tethering, hard drive speed is the bottleneck and CPU power is the bottleneck for preview generation.Īnyone who has iStat menus knows that Capture seems to never utilize the full potential of the machine. when processing out TIFFs it's utilizing both the GPU (render) and the CPU (pack/compress) in the process whereas when processing JPEGs, it's only using the CPU.

During an interview with Capture One a few weeks back, I had the benefit of asking how C1 uses a machine's "power" and it seems to differ for different tasks. Then, the followup to that is, "How will capture one utilize this new processing power?". I'm guessing it will be a bit different than modern, Intel processors. How do the new M1 SoC processors will utilize CPU/GPU/RAM. I think the real question that needs answering (and if it has, by all means school me) is this: The Max is probably overkill for all but the most demanding applications. Reports are that C1 runs well on the M1, and they are developing a release for the M1 iPad, so the base M1 is a reasonable choice the Pro will probably meet the needs of most people for a number of years. The Max (or my core i9 / 5500M) are really useful for heavy video work, or gaming (maybe). I can’t use it in my lap for too long before I’m uncomfortably hot, even using a lap desk. It’s also not a laptop - it just gets too hot, even running low demand software.

It runs C1 nicely, but I think it would run just as well on 32 GB and, knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have spent the extra money for 64, or the 5500M. I am currently running a 2019 MacBook Pro core i9 with 64 GB of RAM and AMD Radeon Pro 5500M. I think that they said that it was coming at a later release (but, my memory isn’t always reliable). I don’t know if C1 implemented Metal in 21. Many programs make use of the graphics cores when coded using Metal. There may be a performance difference between the Pro and Max, but I doubt that it would be very noticeable while using Capture One, if at all. But, since you asked, here is my two cents: Well, you have asked this before anyone could possibly have any real world experience with the new Macs.
