I am assuming this will be the same with M1 iMacs, but they don’t exist yet. Now I have tried that out and it worked very well, but I have realized I just like one resolution for my 2 monitors, and try and save as much video memory as I can, so that is why I use SwitchResX, and the less video memory you have the more important this is. Of course this isn’t all that SwitchResX can do, you can actually set different resolutions for different apps and have it change as you switch apps. HiDPI is what Apple does to make the monitor look great, it takes your resolution and runs it twice to subsample and make it look better, but basically whatever video ram it is using for your primary display it is doubling it to make the display look nicer.įor a video editor this is a huge no no, don’t waste your video memory, it is precious! Make sure to set your display to a non HiDPI resolution so that you are not wasting your video memory! You can see I have chosen 2560×1440 which is the normal default resolution, but I have not chosen the HiDPI version.
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Video editing software needs a separate GPU with it’s own memory, lets hope Apple agrees.
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And sure the performance of them has been impressive, but for heavy pro work Apple had better be doing some form of video card to really push the video end and GPU performance, and we have seen no sign of it, but I would hope that a high end iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro would have it to push the video performance. It is likely that the next M1 or it’s follow up chip will be an iMac, but the first M1 machines not only share video memory with the main memory, but also stop at 16GB of total RAM. And you can even get the Matte finish from the MacPro displays for half the price, which is impressive, but they need a second display like that to match the price and look. This machine should smash the 10 Core iMac Pro in performance, and the Xeon’s never really added anything to the Mac except multi-core and the ability to have dual processors.
The top of the line can be upgraded to a 3.6GHz 10 Core Intel-Core i9 with turbo boost to 5.0GHZ, it can have up to 128GB of RAM, up to an 8TB internal SSD, an the top video card is a Radeo Pro 5700 XT with 16GB of GDDR6 Memory.
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It was obviously a stop gap machine, and it’s only ugprade was removing the lowest multi-core version and an upgrade to the Radeon Pro Vega 64x 16 GB from the Vega 64 16GB, which is just a slight speed increase.Īnd the latest 27 inch iMac can in fact beat the performance for the iMac Pro. So I got an iMac Pro because my old Mac Pro 4,1 died, and there was no new MacPro out as of yet. Still for most users this should be an impressive machine, though why the chin? I know iMacs have had it for a while, but I would rather not have it and have the display edge to edge. And an expensive plug in upgrade cycle to M1 support is certainly in our future. Maybe an iMac pro could include height control as well, as long as it doesn’t cost as much as the stand for the MacPro HDR display.Īnd with Final Cut Pro X and DaVinci working well on M1 Macs and Premiere having Beta support the future looks bright for M1 pro users, though it isn’t here yet. I like that you can order one with a vesa mount instead of the included stand, since the stand doesn’t have height control. Strangely this computer is so thin they couldn’t keep the headphone jack on the back and had to put it on the side, which is certainly easier to use. And any pro iMac will need to be thicker and have a fan, and maybe a bigger display. I really look forward to seeing what the pro variant of the m1 chip is and if it has external graphics support, or even pci support. And the 16GB unified memory for both CPU snd GPU will be further hampered by the larger display, and lack of cooling fan for pro work.
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