Mac Studio Test with Double Trouble

[Music] welcome to the evaluation of the MAC at the studio I suggest welcome to the review of the Mac Studio [Music] [Applause] [Music] all proper so this is the laptop I in my view got without a doubt enthusiastic about after they announced it due to the fact we’ve constructed a video Studio right here and this pc is actually referred to as the Mac Studio so the whole purpose is to be the suitable computer this is small and powerful sufficient to be in a studio environment and had a lot of these example studios within the Apple occasion from music studios to Design Studios to specially video Studios and so that they made a bit Cube the scale of Two and a Half Mac minis with a bunch of i o some new Cooling and an M1 Max or an M1 Ultra chip inside specially to live in those Studio environments and so now I’ve got one here in our studio so I’ve been throwing all sorts of duties and projects and accessories at this thing inclusive of this new studio display which I also plan on making a separate overview about as it’s quite weird ensure you get subscribed for that and I simply have two however I’ve usually been setting my time into checking out this M1 Ultra version because it’s the latest largest baddest chip so I name this the 2x machine basically the entirety approximately this device is doubled now I’m going to be relating to the M1 Max chip a lot for the duration of this evaluation so if you have not already visible the MacBook Pro assessment with the M1 Max chip in it it is going to be very useful I’ll leave that link below the like button this one essentially doubles all the matters so bodily speaking it is basically like two Mac minis stacked on pinnacle of every other melted into one thick Mac Mini three C’s and this is fairly small for the quantity of strength it puts out it can sit down on any table alongside audio system or a reveal or something you set it up with also it’s far a total accident however I set mine up in this desk I were given from Blue Dot which already has a gaggle of these perforated holes that ring a bell in me of the mac and it fits genuinely flawlessly beneath the shelf in order that a monitor can sit on top of the Shelf without simply sitting on top of the laptop anyway that is the returned of the pc which has a complete Suite of i o even more ports than the Mac Mini there are four Thunderbolt 4 ports a ten gigabit Ethernet port the power plug two usb-a ports an HDMI 2. 0 Port not 2. 1 once more for a few cause and a headphone jack that could guide better impedance headphones much like the MacBook Pro now it is now not kicking out global-elegance audio by any method it’s not going to update my popular audio DAC but it is convenient to have sort of the equal way HDMI is convenient despite the fact that I’m sort of amazed this one would not do HDMI 2. 1 I get it on the laptop it’s simply so that you can plug in a random reveal on the cross but that is going to sit down at your table and it’d be high-quality to have high refresh charge however at the same time the Ford Thunderbolt ports will help as much as four Pro display xdrs which might be all 6K so I wager he were given back on for you but then at the the front Halo appearance take a look at that the front i o that is fine because this is going to sit down on a desk now not below it so up the front right here it is going to be USBC ports if you get the bottom M1 Max version but those graduate to 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports in case you get the M1 Ultra version due to the fact there is actually more buses to be had after which an SD card slot because every Studio I know has tons of SD cards lying round somewhere so it seems if I wanted to replace my Mac Pro today this is sufficient I O for me to certainly do this so I’ve got Thunderbolt displays and then one Thunderbolt raid array and the DAC the standard audio DAC is also Thunderbolt so all together plus a couple card readers I’d be set now Apple did use the word modularity of their presentation I do not know if that word approach what they assume it method I suggest maybe if they may be simply attempting to say as it’s not related to a show and you may choose your own unlike the iMac that’s what they may be considering modular if no longer then I don’t have any concept what they may be speaking approximately because this issue is definitely now not modular in any respect all of the elements inner are soldered in there is no upgrading of the Ram or the GPU or any elements of this component ever for the complete life of the system I’m no longer even sure there’s any reasonable manner to honestly open up and get into the Mac Studio so yeah I can’t come up with modular in this one apple but also this degree of vertical integration is basically required to get a laptop to be this small and this green like I’ve seen some small PCS earlier than this one is Tiny also the power supply is constructed in so there’s no wall wart it’s all simply on this little field and additionally fun truth Apple did send each the M1 Max and M1 Ultra variations right here to the studio to test and the M1 Ultra model is in reality notice probable heavier than the max it’s whole kilos heavier it turns out it is due to the fact the heatsink they used inside the extremely model is manufactured from copper in preference to the aluminum one they positioned inside the M1 Max it is plenty extra dense it is heavier it is pretty serious but I think that’s my cue to talk about the interior of this device a bit bit greater because it truly is in which the 2x theme begins up again so that you don’t forget the occasion the M1 Ultra is actually two M1 Maxes essentially fused together with a excessive enough bandwidth among them to behave like one huge mega chip that is brilliant due to the fact that means times the CPU cores two times the GPU cores instances the memory bandwidth and instances the overall reminiscence so in packages I can take gain of this stuff properly this ought to be twice the system now Apple did the entirety they continually do with graphs and you may by no means virtually take these completely at face cost I did do some artificial benchmarks though and for lots of them it does behave like two times the computer it it truely blew the doorways off every other Mac ever made specially along with the iMac Pro and it even flirts with the 28 center cheese grater Mac Pro that I’ve been the use of so in geekbench it ties the highest single center score I’ve ever seen and then it drops a multi-middle score literally double the M1 Max MacBook Pro and yes that still makes it extra effective within the CPU Department than another Mac ever along with 28 middle Mac Pro then inside the cinebench check which I think is a touch more sensible ran it for 10 mins and it gave me round 24 000 which again is ready double the M1 Max and is proper in line among a 16 center thread Ripper and a high thread count Xeon chip just like the Mac Pro essentially the CPU benchmarks are killer until ought to never but then we got to talk approximately GPU stuff it gets a touch extra thrilling so that you would possibly do not forget Apple’s graphs were evaluating at one factor the ultra to an RTX 3090 they kept saying it’ll have the identical overall performance as an RTX 3090 however at 2 hundred Watts much less electricity and that is very spectacular but it turns out the graph ought to preserve a bit some thing like this due to the fact the RTX 3090 will fortunately continue to draw manner extra energy up to four hundred watts of electricity it’s one of the energy hungriest playing cards ever so shout out to heimgartenberg at The Verge for this chart suggestion so it seems it doesn’t beat the RTX 3090 at something which you could buy an RTX 3090 for which I did not virtually assume it to because that card is nearly solely for gaming such as you purchase that to play video games and you will never purchase this to play video games however hi there double the cores still do double the paintings so on geekbench’s steel Benchmark which measures GPU overall performance with things like picture processing I were given nearly double the score of the M1 Max MacBook Pro cracking a hundred thousand that’s round what a Radeon Pro Vega 2 Duo in my Mac Pro rankings but the Mac Pro has four of them now artificial benchmarks are cool and the whole lot however you don’t buy a pc like this to simply attempt to get the very best benchmark rankings you purchase a brand new laptop to see if that new energy can translate to actual world overall performance and actual global workflows and so basically what I’ve noticed most is the more well-optimized the app the closer you get to those 2x overall performance numbers nothing without a doubt commonly hits precisely 2x however the M1 Ultra does sense quicker a chunk from time to time than the M1 Max I imply in regular overall performance just zipping across the Mac yeah this aspect slaps it makes me truely want I had a high refresh fee monitor here that performs properly with the Mac due to the fact that would clearly experience way greater responsive like the MacBook Pro with its Pro movement display screen but you already know 5000 plus megabytes per 2d read write speeds from the pressure matters open right away it is tremendous and then in my own workflow you would possibly understand through now I’m a Final Cut Pro editor right here it did give me extra Headroom and it did carry out higher than the M1 Max MacBook Pro however once more it failed to pretty beat the Mac Pro I’m currently the use of essentially it is gotten to the factor where I can drop fresh 8K uncooked documents on the timeline in higher fine playback mode without delay hit play and begin tweaking coloration and messing with uncooked settings and it plays lower back flawlessly at 30 frames without hesitation minimum lag after I hit the play button I love it it’s while you start adding layers of gadgets and plugins and animations and trackers on top that matters do start to gradual down and I can nevertheless bring it to its knees with sufficient layers of shifting gadgets like I had I had six at the start of the iPad Air review however then when I were given to the export at the stop of the video it took the Mac Studio 7 mins and 30 seconds to export my iPhone SE evaluate that’s pretty magnificent but apparently this same venture took 6 minutes and five seconds to export from the Mac Pro so it’s still extra powerful it just has extra raw horsepower however of course now not every person’s the use of Apple’s personal apps like I do with Final Cut there are masses of Premiere Studios there are lots of DaVinci Resolve Studios hell even on this studio we have were given humans using heavy Photoshop and after effects stuff for thumbnails and Motion Graphics so I am satisfied to report that adobe has been working via their Suite the latest After Effects beta is dramatically faster on Apple silicon so this is exquisite and I’m gonna hyperlink an editorial from Scott Simmons where he went thru a group of checks among Premiere and clear up comparing the M1 Ultra with the M1 Max and you can see a constant overall performance improvement with all of the heavier stuff like adding warp stabilizer rendering a heavy clip Etc the most effective aspect I did discover wherein the M1 Ultra did not beat the M1 Max turned into curiously just a straight up prores video export sorry for the lots of video comparisons but hi there it’s a video studio so this changed into one region where it did smoke the Mac Pro because the brand new prores the media engines in these Apple silicon merchandise are notable the M1 Ultra has literally double the media engine of the M1 Max so I thought it might be twice as fast whilst they both beat the Mac Pro it turned into kind of the same time to export a unmarried prores clip but generally yeah it won’t have matched the Mac Pro at every single little aspect I threw at it however yeah in case you’re no longer a video person I’ll let you find The Benchmark that applies pleasant on your workflow but commonly with the stuff I threw at it M1 Ultra closely outperformed M1 Max and it did all of it very quietly with little or no warmness in this tiny little container that just sits inconspicuously for your table I imply this computer makes it so apparent why they were keen to ditch Intel also let me give a shout out to the sustainability element right here too so they use recycled materials inside these computer systems it is cool and then even the packaging I do not assume humans apprehend how difficult that is the packaging for those computers is honestly superb fully recyclable plenty of padding transferring components after which with a literal floating cardboard platform inside the middle for surprise absorption it is wild I would not be amazed if simply this field introduced like 50 bucks to the price of the laptop simply to engineer the sort of ridiculous package however as some distance as real international effect the most important chunk of a good way to come from the efficiency of these chips of direction Apple says that it’ll use over a thousand kilowatt hours much less power per 12 months than an average PC computer it’s top in your power bill but that’s additionally true for the surroundings however on the stop of the day appearance this is only a device proper similar to the app or program you are the usage of already is just a device and so I think people look for the The Benchmark so as to show that this machine will make them higher at what they do it can not do this like just as it’s rapid in case you’re bad at editing and also you get this system you will nevertheless be terrible at modifying however simply quicker but I am truly happy to look new machines like this still coming out that do make huge leaps in performance and capability kind of increases the ceiling for what you can do now all that being stated the Apple silicon Mac Pro is still coming and I say that no longer even like as a warning to most humans however just to remind myself due to the fact truely maximum workflows are blanketed with the Mac Studio like if I nowadays if I’m a YouTuber and I’m simply enhancing 4K or 8K even prores all of the time this can be able to deal with it however in case you’re doing massive three-D modeling projects or heaps of tracking and layers and after outcomes or maybe in audio projects masses of plugins and video stuff in case you’re sincerely pushing the bounds of your machine the Mac Pro platform still does provide the most horsepower so I suggest it should not it should not be unexpected that the contemporary 40 pound 28 middle you understand 768 gig of RAM Mac Pro manages to slightly outperform this little tiny field here however whilst we do get the brand new Apple silicon Mac Pro I do anticipate performance to double this one up again that’s crazy to say out loud however for each person else this issue is overkill and I love that it’s the narrative round this pc like do you really want that tons electricity probable not but good day at least it’s five thousand dollars of Overkill as opposed to 25 000 of Overkill so it is a bargain both manner that’s been it thank you for watching trap you men the next one peace [Music] [Music] welcome to the evaluation of the MAC at the studio I suggest welcome to the evaluate of the Mac Studio [Music] [Applause] [Music] all proper so that is the pc I individually got sincerely excited about after they introduced it because we’ve got constructed a video Studio right here and this laptop is literally known as the Mac Studio so the entire motive is to be the proper computer that is small and powerful sufficient to be in a studio surroundings and had these types of example studios in the Apple occasion from track studios to Design Studios to in particular video Studios and so they made a touch Cube the scale of Two and a Half Mac minis with a group of i o some new Cooling and an M1 Max or an M1 Ultra chip interior in particular to live in those Studio environments and so now I’ve got one right here in our studio so I’ve been throwing all forms of duties and initiatives and add-ons at this thing which includes this new studio show which I additionally plan on making a separate evaluation approximately because it’s quite bizarre ensure you get subscribed for that and I definitely have but I’ve primarily been setting my time into testing this M1 Ultra version because it’s the most recent biggest baddest chip so I call this the 2x system basically the whole thing approximately this gadget is doubled now I’m going to be regarding the M1 Max chip lots all through this overview so if you have not already visible the MacBook Pro review with the M1 Max chip in it it truly is going to be very beneficial I’ll depart that hyperlink underneath the like button this one basically doubles all of the matters so physically talking it’s basically like two Mac minis stacked on pinnacle of every different melted into one thick Mac Mini 3 C’s and that is incredibly small for the amount of power it places out it can take a seat on any table along audio system or a monitor or whatever you set it up with also it’s far a total accident but I set mine up in this table I got from Blue Dot which already has a bunch of these perforated holes that remind me of the mac and it suits simply perfectly underneath the shelf so that a monitor can sit on pinnacle of the Shelf with out actually sitting on top of the pc anyway that is the returned of the laptop which has a full Suite of i o even more ports than the Mac Mini there are 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports a ten gigabit Ethernet port the strength plug usb-a ports an HDMI 2.

0 Port not 2. 1 again for a few purpose and a headphone jack which could aid better impedance headphones much like the MacBook Pro now it is no longer kicking out world-magnificence audio by way of any way it’s now not going to replace my generic audio DAC but it’s far handy to have form of the equal manner HDMI is handy even though I’m form of surprised this one does not do HDMI 2. 1 I get it at the computer it really is simply so that you can plug in a random monitor at the move but that is going to sit down at your desk and it’d be great to have high refresh price however on the identical time the Ford Thunderbolt ports will aid as much as 4 Pro display xdrs which are all 6K so I wager he got lower back on for you however then on the front Halo appearance look at that the front i o that is pleasant because that is going to sit on a table no longer below it so up the front right here that’s going to be two USBC ports if you get the bottom M1 Max version however those graduate to 2 Thunderbolt four ports in case you get the M1 Ultra model due to the fact there is actually more buses to be had and then an SD card slot because every Studio I understand has heaps of SD playing cards lying round someplace so it turns out if I desired to update my Mac Pro today that is sufficient I O for me to certainly try this so I’ve got Thunderbolt displays after which one Thunderbolt raid array and the DAC the widespread audio DAC is also Thunderbolt so all collectively plus a couple card readers I’d be set now Apple did use the phrase modularity in their presentation I do not know if that phrase manner what they suppose it means I imply perhaps if they’re simply attempting to say as it’s not linked to a show and you could choose your own in contrast to the iMac that is what they may be considering modular if now not then I haven’t any concept what they are speaking about because this factor is actually not modular in any respect all the components internal are soldered in there is no upgrading of the Ram or the GPU or any elements of this factor ever for the whole life of the gadget I’m no longer even certain there may be any affordable way to clearly open up and get into the Mac Studio so yeah I can’t come up with modular in this one apple however also this level of vertical integration is essentially required to get a pc to be this small and this efficient like I’ve visible a few small PCS earlier than this one is Tiny additionally the electricity deliver is built in so there is no wall wart it’s all just in this little field and also amusing fact Apple did ship each the M1 Max and M1 Ultra variations right here to the studio to test and the M1 Ultra model is in reality note in all likelihood heavier than the max it’s two complete pounds heavier it turns out it’s due to the fact the heatsink they used in the extremely model is made of copper rather than the aluminum one they placed in the M1 Max it’s plenty greater dense it is heavier that’s quite extreme however I suppose it truly is my cue to talk about the internal of this machine a little bit greater because that’s in which the 2x topic starts up once more so that you recollect the event the M1 Ultra is actually two M1 Maxes basically fused together with a high enough bandwidth among them to behave like one large mega chip that is awesome because which means two instances the CPU cores instances the GPU cores two times the reminiscence bandwidth and times the total reminiscence so in programs I can take gain of these things nicely this should be twice the gadget now Apple did the whole thing they always do with graphs and you can by no means surely take those absolutely at face value I did do some artificial benchmarks though and for a whole lot of them it does behave like two times the pc it it without a doubt blew the doorways off every other Mac ever made specially including the iMac Pro and it even flirts with the 28 core cheese grater Mac Pro that I’ve been using so in geekbench it ties the best single middle rating I’ve ever seen after which it drops a multi-core score literally double the M1 Max MacBook Pro and sure that still makes it more effective in the CPU Department than another Mac ever along with 28 middle Mac Pro then within the cinebench take a look at which I think is a little more practical ran it for 10 minutes and it gave me round 24 000 which once more is set double the M1 Max and is right in line among a 16 center thread Ripper and a high thread matter Xeon chip just like the Mac Pro essentially the CPU benchmarks are killer until may want to in no way however then we were given to speak about GPU stuff it gets a touch more interesting so you may recollect Apple’s graphs have been evaluating at one factor the ultra to an RTX 3090 they saved saying it’ll have the same performance as an RTX 3090 however at 2 hundred Watts less electricity and that is very outstanding however it turns out the graph ought to keep a little something like this because the RTX 3090 will fortunately retain to draw way extra strength as much as four hundred watts of strength it is one of the strength hungriest playing cards ever so shout out to heimgartenberg at The Verge for this chart suggestion so it seems it would not beat the RTX 3090 at something that you would buy an RTX 3090 for which I did not certainly assume it to because that card is nearly solely for gaming such as you buy that to play games and you would never purchase this to play games however hello double the cores nonetheless do double the paintings so on geekbench’s metal Benchmark which measures GPU overall performance with things like photograph processing I were given almost double the rating of the M1 Max MacBook Pro cracking a hundred thousand that’s around what a Radeon Pro Vega 2 Duo in my Mac Pro rankings however the Mac Pro has 4 of them now artificial benchmarks are cool and the entirety however you don’t purchase a pc like this to simply try to get the very best benchmark scores you purchase a brand new laptop to see if that new power can translate to real international performance and real global workflows and so basically what I’ve observed maximum is the extra well-optimized the app the nearer you get to the ones 2x performance numbers nothing certainly normally hits precisely 2x but the M1 Ultra does experience faster a piece sometimes than the M1 Max I mean in everyday overall performance simply zipping around the Mac yeah this element slaps it makes me truly want I had a excessive refresh fee screen right here that performs well with the Mac due to the fact that could sincerely feel way extra responsive just like the MacBook Pro with its Pro movement screen but you realize 5000 plus megabytes consistent with second read write speeds from the force matters open immediately it’s awesome after which in my personal workflow you might recognize by now I’m a Final Cut Pro editor here it did provide me more Headroom and it did carry out better than the M1 Max MacBook Pro however once more it didn’t quite beat the Mac Pro I’m presently the use of essentially it is gotten to the point wherein I can drop sparkling 8K raw documents at the timeline in higher first-class playback mode straight away hit play and begin tweaking coloration and messing with uncooked settings and it performs lower back perfectly at 30 frames with out hesitation minimal lag once I hit the play button I love it it is when you start adding layers of gadgets and plugins and animations and trackers on top that things do start to gradual down and I can nonetheless bring it to its knees with enough layers of moving gadgets like I had I had six at the beginning of the iPad Air evaluate however then after I got to the export on the cease of the video it took the Mac Studio 7 mins and 30 seconds to export my iPhone SE review which is pretty surprising however curiously this same task took 6 mins and five seconds to export from the Mac Pro so it is still more powerful it just has greater uncooked horsepower however of course no longer all of us’s using Apple’s personal apps like I do with Final Cut there are masses of Premiere Studios there are masses of DaVinci Resolve Studios hell even in this studio we have got humans using heavy Photoshop and after effects stuff for thumbnails and Motion Graphics so I am happy to file that adobe has been working through their Suite the most modern After Effects beta is dramatically faster on Apple silicon so it is first rate and I’m gonna hyperlink an article from Scott Simmons wherein he went via a gaggle of checks between Premiere and solve evaluating the M1 Ultra with the M1 Max and you could see a consistent performance improvement with all the heavier stuff like including warp stabilizer rendering a heavy clip Etc the most effective factor I did locate in which the M1 Ultra didn’t beat the M1 Max become apparently just a directly up prores video export sorry for the heaps of video comparisons but hello it is a video studio so this changed into one region in which it did smoke the Mac Pro due to the fact the brand new prores the media engines in these Apple silicon products are outstanding the M1 Ultra has actually double the media engine of the M1 Max so I thought it’d be two times as speedy whilst they each beat the Mac Pro it became more or less the same time to export a single prores clip however generally yeah it may not have matched the Mac Pro at each unmarried little element I threw at it but yeah in case you’re now not a video individual I’ll can help you find The Benchmark that applies pleasant to your workflow however usually with the stuff I threw at it M1 Ultra closely outperformed M1 Max and it did it all very quietly with very little warmth in this tiny little container that just sits inconspicuously for your table I imply this pc makes it so apparent why they were eager to ditch Intel also permit me give a shout out to the sustainability detail right here too so they use recycled substances interior those computer systems it truly is cool after which even the packaging I do not think people apprehend how tough this is the packaging for those computers is without a doubt amazing absolutely recyclable plenty of padding shifting parts and then with a literal floating cardboard platform in the middle for surprise absorption it is wild I would now not be amazed if just this field delivered like 50 dollars to the rate of the pc simply to engineer such a ridiculous package but as some distance as actual international effect the most important bite of that will come from the efficiency of these chips of course Apple says that it’s going to use over a thousand kilowatt hours less energy per 12 months than a mean PC computer it’s excellent on your power bill but this is also true for the surroundings however at the quit of the day look that is only a tool proper much like the app or program you’re the use of already is only a device and so I assume humans search for the The Benchmark on the way to show that this device will make them better at what they do it can not do that like simply because it’s speedy if you’re awful at modifying and you get this machine you may still be bad at enhancing however just quicker but I am virtually happy to peer new machines like this still popping out that do make big leaps in performance and functionality sort of raises the ceiling for what you could do now all that being stated the Apple silicon Mac Pro remains coming and I say that no longer even like as a warning to most people however simply to remind myself due to the fact definitely maximum workflows are included with the Mac Studio like if I these days if I’m a YouTuber and I’m simply modifying 4K or 8K even prores all of the time this will be capable of manage it however in case you’re doing huge 3D modeling initiatives or heaps of monitoring and layers and after consequences or even in audio initiatives masses of plugins and video stuff if you’re really pushing the limits of your device the Mac Pro platform nonetheless does provide the most horsepower so I imply it should not it should not be unexpected that the modern-day 40 pound 28 core you realize 768 gig of RAM Mac Pro manages to barely outperform this little tiny box here but while we do get the new Apple silicon Mac Pro I do assume performance to double this one up again that’s crazy to say out loud however for each person else this thing is overkill and I love that this is the narrative around this laptop like do you actually need that an awful lot energy possibly now not but hey as a minimum it’s five thousand greenbacks of Overkill as opposed to 25 000 of Overkill so it is a bargain either way it’s been it thank you for looking seize you guys the following one peace [Music]