With its M1 chip, Apple has done very well. The Californian brand, which until then depended on Intel, managed to convince almost all of the testers thanks to extremely satisfactory performance, an almost perfect emulation of x64 applications and a battery life much greater than what it offered. previously. The Apple M1 chip, which has been used in MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini and iMac since the end of last year, is a real hit. Proof if one were needed, Mac sales have never been so strong.
While waiting for the arrival of more professional versions of Apple Silicon chips (we are talking about an M1X chip dedicated to MacBook Pro from the end of the year), software dedicated to professionals is gradually adapting to the ARM architecture pushed by Apple. . After Adobe with its Creative Cloud suite, it’s Blackmagic Design’s turn to communicate on the impressive performance of Macs equipped with an Apple Silicon chip.
A MacBook Air at the level of a professional machine?
The developer of DaVinci Resolve, a calibration and editing software particularly appreciated by professionals, announces an update of its application specifically dedicated to Apple Silicon chips. This is not a change from emulation to native operation (DaVinci Resolve was already compatible for several versions) but a change of processing engine. The Mac M1 would be able to create the rendering of a video 65% faster … while consuming 30% less energy (we are even talking about a processing speed divided by three on 4K and 8K streams). Blackmagic Design explains using motors directly integrated into the M1 chip to make processing less cumbersome. According to him, a MacBook Air could now handle multiple 4K streams simultaneously and even support 8K. A task that only the most expensive Macs could do before.
This is not the first time that a developer has used the M1 chip to tout the performance of their applications. Adobe, very happy with the performance of the Apple chip, has also often highlighted the performance gains made possible by the first Apple Silicon chip dedicated to Macs. This does not please Intel, which, in recent months, has often distinguished itself by its criticisms of Apple’s architecture.
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With its 17.3 update, DaVinci Resolve is arguably paving the way for future, more powerful Apple Silicon Macs. If a Mac M1 today is able to use the editing software under much better conditions than before, it is unlikely that a true professional will use this machine on a daily basis. On the other hand, in the coming months, Blackmagic Design will have almost nothing to do to adapt its software to future chips from Apple. The future of Macs has never been so exciting!
Lien : Blackmagic Design
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