performance benchmarks comparison - nvidia vs apple silicon

Hi all,

im currently looking for a new laptop and wondered if anyone has seen any benchmarks comparing a laptop with an nvidia card versus the new apple silicon based laptops.

Been looking at the asus zenbook pros (with the dual screen) as they look nice (shame i cant find any linux drivers for the second screen though for my day job).

thanks in advance,

B

This might give you some general impression:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l6znbhmtjc3mm ... 0.pdf?dl=0

Contact me if you'd like to get the .drp.

Hi all,

im currently looking for a new laptop and wondered if anyone has seen any benchmarks comparing a laptop with an nvidia card versus the new apple silicon based laptops.

Been looking at the asus zenbook pros (with the dual screen) as they look nice (shame i cant find any linux drivers for the second screen though for my day job).

thanks in advance,

B

The Asus is garbage, if you want a Windows laptop for Resolve you want a mobile workstation with 12 or 16BG VRAM cards and proper ventilation. HP ZBook (Fury), Dell Precision etc.

This might give you some general impression:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l6znbhmtjc3mm ... 0.pdf?dl=0

Contact me if you'd like to get the .drp.

The test should have tested a Windows mobile workstation, similarly priced to the Mac, which I'm pretty sure would have behaved better than that Asus joke.

I fully agree with that.

But at the time my publisher asked for the article, nobody but Asus had a sample with an Nvidia and at least 8 GB VRAM. Even that review sample came after an odyssey around several countries in Europe. The others were advertising their mobile workstations in the same issue of the magazine, but unable to deliver.
What I took away from this test was one interesting observation: if your GPU is getting close to its limits, it may help to avoid the extra load by not rendering directly into a GOP codec. This may apply not only to a laptop. What surprised me, was that Cineform seemed to be less demanding than DNxHR.

If you want to compare with any serious machine, here is the .drp:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nig23ohng2gpu ... e.drp?dl=0

All files but one were from the manufacturer's sites. The only missing one is an HEVC clip in 10 bit 4:2:2. Canon at the time, but Sony should serve as well. Details in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=162987&hilit=benchmark+.drp

Many thanks. Got something to read about it now.

Do confirm the hardware you are looking at supports the codecs your plan to edit

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... udio-2122/

M1 isn't on there, but it has even better list than Intel.

Nvidia and AMD are sadly laggards for h265 4:2:2 that is very common on modern consumer cameras.

That’s an important point if you use such codecs or are planning to.
A high-end GPU can be getting throttled down if your CPU is busy decoding such formats.
Always look at the performance for your specific sources and features you typically use. You may see in my review how either machine was ahead depending on the task at hand.