Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools
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Re: Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools
#2Is this also true of M1 Ultra in Mac Studio?
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#3Wonder how it does with https://wavtool.com
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#4I was going to trade in my M1 Pro for an M3 Pro (I love the black), but I'm seriously getting second thoughts. I guess you can make a product that's just too good, after all.
Might keep my M1 until the M4 or M5 Pro.
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#5For other ignoramuses like me, the acronym DAW in the post stands for Digital Audio Workstation, being the general term for all these tools.
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#6The article suggests it’s because the new M3 chips have less P-cores and more efficiency cores, and many tested apps don’t use the latter.
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#7Oversimplified, but the efficiency cores are slower in the M3 vs the M1, and Ableton seems like the sort of app where lots of tasks would land there.
"(Ableton) Live supports up to 64 cores for audio processing on Mac and Windows. Likewise, Live supports up to 64 processing threads for audio calculation." https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209067649-Multi-c...
Re: Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools
#8Is this also true of M1 Ultra in Mac Studio?
Unlikely, the Pro SOC moved downmarket with the M3 Pro, reducing the P-cores. Presumably a future M3 Ultra will retain the full amount of P-cores
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#9The core counts listed don't make sense: for M1 Pro they're quoting the fully-enabled 8p2e config but for M2 Pro and M3 Pro they're quoting the cut-down configs (6p4e and 5p6e) that are only available in the 14" MacBook Pro (and Mac Mini, for M2 Pro). For context, the M1 Pro's cut-down config was 6p2e.
At best, none of these conclusions would apply to the 16" MacBook Pro, and would be the wrong comparisons to make for the 14".
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#10>How does a three-year-old CPU beat the latest Apple Silicon chip in terms of performance in many popular DAWs?
Why do people keep saying the M1 Pro is 3 years old? It came out in October 2021 - it's barely over 2...