Hi everyone, my government is offering some funding to upgrade computers.
Right now I have a Macbook Pro 14", M1 pro chip, 8 CPU, 14 GPU, 16 Gb RAM.
I could upgrade to a
Macbook Pro 14", M4, 10 CPU, 10 GPU, 16Gb.
There’s no custom options, so it’s either this or the massive 16" which is out of my budget.
I currently use my M1 pro with the following:
Davinci Resolve: It’s good enough with RED RAW files. There’s some lagging with slow motion or with simple fusion graphics but nothing that demands an update.
Unreal Engine: it’s OK, but here is where I’m wondering if I’ll see an improvement. Now I’m having to limit quality to get a somewhat luent rendering. Unless there’s any tips I’m missing to improve performance…
I saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSMwDoDFC0&ab_channel=AndresVidoza which has some good comparisons and what suprised that the M1 pro chip performed better in DaVinci Resolve over the basic M4 chip, so I definitely don’t want to find myself in that scenario.
I run Geekbnech on my M1 pro and these are the results I got (and had some browser tabs open, no plugged to power, so maybe it took a bit of a hit haha)
And according to Geekbench, these are the results for the base M4.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!