Davinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro Performance Comparison

That's 32 percent faster than I expected. What in the world is going on here? How is it that Davinci Resolve is seeing 30 plus percent gains but Final Cut Pro is only seeing 12 to 15 percent? This is a very weird result, and I think I'm gonna have to do some more digging to figure out what's going on here. This was just a preliminary look, and honestly, beats me. Maybe Final Cut Pro needs to be updated to take advantage of the M2 chip, so I'll revisit this if there is new information. But for now, it's weird.

Moving on to Blender, starting with CPU cycles in the Classroom test, we saw a modest gain of just 11 percent, which still equates to more than a minute saved in render time. However, in the GPU test with Metal API, things are a lot more promising. A whopping 1 minute and a half difference yields 38 percent improvement over M1 once again outperforming Apple's own promises. This is a big deal for entry-level Apple Silicon, and we see it again in the BMW test with just 33 seconds saved in the CPU render. The GPU render shows some very tasty returns, 32.8 percent faster.

In another 3D modeling suite, Octane X, we should expect some impressive scores thanks to stellar Apple Silicon optimization. And sure enough, while the M1 took 29 minutes and 15 seconds to render, the M2 took just over 21 minutes, an impressive 38 percent faster. Clearly, what we can see today is that the GPU in the M2 chip is the star of the show. The CPU results in my opinion are a bit of a mixed bag; we have been able to see that 18 figure in Geekbench, but in pretty much all of the other tests I ran, it's looking like the actual CPU gains are more in the 11 to 15 range.

However, Apple really killed it with the GPUs here. I mean, granted, we don't know if the GPU cores themselves are that much different, but just adding two more cores has yielded 30 to 40 percent gains in pretty much every application. I think they've really got a sweet spot dialed in here for the GPU. I think eight cores probably just wasn't enough; 10 is a great sweet spot, and I think it's going to make the M2 chip in all of its many applications over the next year or so an incredibly valuable chip.

There is something else that we have to consider, and that is that adding those additional GPU cores would theoretically require more power. WWDc Apple showed their graph of GPU performance, and sure enough, you could see the M2 chip consumes a few watts more than the M1. So, what does that mean for battery life? Well, as part of my benchmarking suite, I wanted to find out so I ran many of my benchmarks side by side. On battery from 100 percent on both devices, the test order was as follows: I started by exporting a 10-minute clip in Davinci Resolve then I moved over to GFX Bench where I ran the full testing suite two times back to back and then after that I ran Cinebench back to back two times.

With well over an hour of heavy load testing this should give us a pretty good sample size, and the results were well, the M1 after all this was sitting at 62 percent battery life. The M2 was at 64 percent battery life however one caveat that you should definitely keep in mind is that my M1 MacBook Pro is from November 2020. Now it granted only has 60 cycles on the battery and it's showing up as being at 100 capacity so I don't think it should make a huge difference but bearing that in mind, I'm going to call this a dead heat.

Now that is honestly a really, really interesting result because the majority of that test was GFX Bench and I did that intentionally because we have additional GPU cores drawing additional power and yet the M2 did really well here. I don't notice a difference in battery life. I am going to do some more diving into the battery on these devices I'm also going to be comparing the M2 chip to the M1 Pro so we'll do some battery comparisons there.

And definitely make sure to get subscribed so you don't miss those but at the very least, I am really, really impressed with the M2 chip and the way that it's handling its performance. It's better than the M1 but they've somehow done that while drawing more power without sacrificing battery life. So, I am curious to know what you guys make of all this. Do you think the M2 chip is a worthy upgrade over the M1 or are you more excited for M3 and some future generations of Apple Silicon on a different manufacturing process? Let me know in the comments below as usual.

Thank you guys so much for watching, if you have any questions please ask them down below, and I'll answer them in the next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh boy oh boy brand new mac and it's definitely not the same as the old one oh boy i can't wait to do a an extremely long and thorough unboxing here on youtube and definitely i'm not gonna rush through this in a joking way and comment on how it doesn't look any different than the old one uh definitely not gonna do that so whoa here it is here's the new macbook pro everyone let's go what do we got here we got a cord look at that we got some we got a brick and then we got the laptop itself and hey all right so to make things a little bit easier on both of us uh my new m2 macbook pro i got in silver and that way we can tell them apart so that's just like a little community service for you guys i hope you enjoy it but the focus of this video is not hello the focus of this video is not on the package i'm actually quite glad that apple didn't change a single goddamn thing about the m2 macbook pro because it means we can have a direct apples to apples comparison of the m2 versus the m1 chip the exact same chassis the exact same cooling system the exact same battery life that means we can really test what is new with m2 and that is what this video is about so like comment subscribe and let's get into it what better use for a new mac is there than to get started with today's video sponsor skillshare an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes whether you're looking to sharpen your skills or learn something completely new skillshare has the courses and tools for you if you want to harness your new apple silicon mac to learn about swift and ar kit for apple devices or you want to do something completely new and different like this course on black and white photography using color filters for enhancement skillshare has high quality courses to suit your interests i first used skillshare about four or five years ago when i had less than 10 000 subscribers and i found a lot of their beginner courses on starting a 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full review on the m2 macbook pro today we're talking about the m2 chip so let's get started with some synthetic benchmarks the m2 chip promises up to 18 better cpu and up to 35 percent better gpu performance so let's see if it can actually deliver on that promise in geekbench 5 we see a multi-core score of 8914 up from 76.28 on the m1 macbook pro that's an improvement of almost exactly 18 and in single core we see improvements from 1729 on the m1 all the way to 1892 and that means the m2 chip has now matched the single core king the core i9 12900k that's an impressive feat considering the m2 chip is on the same manufacturing process as m1 however when we move over to cinebench r23 which is more demanding than geekbench we see smaller gains compared to m1 our score of 8706 compared to 7726 gives us a gain of 12.6 percent decent but not ludicrous and definitely not the 18 apple showed off however while testing in cinebench something stood out to me these two identical macbooks which have identical cooling systems don't have the same thermal and fan behaviors when running cinebench the m1 macbook pro has been famed since its launch for being unbelievably quiet even under full load but i did not have the same experience with the m2 midway through a cinebench run the m1 macbook pro sounds like this but the m2 is noticeably louder it sounds like this but it's important to note that fan noise wasn't like this all the time in fact that clip was the loudest i heard the m2 macbook pro it seemed to vary a lot more than the m1 at times it would be barely audible sometimes it was as loud as you saw in that clip for the most part the m1 sits at 3300 rpm on its fan but the m2 sits at around 5200 this is a perplexing difference that can only really indicate one thing the m2 chip seems to be running its cores a little bit harder in order to hit that increased performance target and the result of that is it's not as quiet as an m1 macbook so with that said let's get back to some more benchmarks next up i ran some rosetta benchmarks to get a look at how m2 compares when running translated benchmarks in novabench our score of 2336 is just seven percent better than the m1 macbook pro but in v-ray we see a more impressive 14 gain over m1 it's interesting that in these apps we see smaller gains than in native or optimized ones but one area where apple is taking a brute force approach is the gpu which i had long considered the weaker point of the m1 chip the cpu in this thing has always been absolutely bananas but the gpu while still better than integrated graphics wasn't really anything too crazy so rather than just boost the clocks boost the amount of power that they're sending to the cpu which seems to be the approach for the m2 apple went ahead and just added two more gpu cores and that makes a big difference in 3dmark wildlife extreme we see a score of 6764 compared to 49.77 on the m1 that's an increase of just over 35 this is a perfect linear scale in line with what apple claimed for apps that can take advantage of all the available cores this is great news in gfx bench we see some even more impressive gains in the popular aztec high tier off screen we find impressive 40 improvement in manhattan 1080p off screen the gains are 45 and in t-rex 42 these are some seriously impressive results even outperforming what apple claimed the m2 chip could do so clearly these extra gpu cores go a long way and it's kind of interesting because in the m1 ultra when you're talking about 48 and 64 gpu cores i mainly focused on how adding cores wasn't really doing anything but when you come back down the product stack to the bottom going from 8 to 10 there's a lot of apps that can take advantage of those extra cores and it is a really big difference but synthetic benchmarks only tell part of the story so let's change gears and look at some real world tests starting with video editing in final cut pro here we should finally see some pretty decent improvements for the m2 chip because of the addition of media encoders which we're missing on the m1 so theoretically we should be able to increase our performance unlocked from that 18 and 35 cpu and gpu figure so does it actually happen well i imported a 10 minute 4k 60 fps clip and rendered color correction on it in final cut pro on the m1 this took more than nine and a half minutes but the m2 did it in eight and a half a full minute faster but percentage-wise this only represented a 13 improvement exporting yielded similar results well two full minutes faster it's still a gain of just 15 for the m2 chip puzzled i flipped over to davinci resolve same 10 minute 4k clip this time a quick prores export this one was super interesting the m1 chip took 10 minutes and 48 seconds but the m2 took 8 minutes and 10 seconds that's 32 percent faster what in the world is going on here how is it that davinci resolve is seeing 30 plus percent gains but final cut pro is only seeing 12 to 15. this is a very weird result and i think i'm gonna have to do some more digging to figure out what's going on here this was just a preliminary look and honestly beats me maybe final cut pro needs to be updated to take advantage of the m2 chip so i'll revisit this if there is new information but for now weird right so let's move on to blender starting with cpu cycles in the classroom test we saw a modest gain of just 11 which still equates to more than a minute saved in render time but in the gpu test with metal api things are a lot more promising a whopping minute and a half difference yields 38 improvement over m1 once again outperforming apple's own promises this is a big deal for entry-level apple silicon and we see it again in the bmw test with just 33 seconds saved in the cpu render the gpu render shows some very tasty returns 32.8 percent faster in another 3d modeling suite octane x we should expect some impressive scores thanks to stellar apple silicon optimization and sure enough while the m1 took 29 minutes and 15 seconds to render the m2 took just over 21 minutes an impressive 38 faster so clearly what we can see today is that the gpu in the m2 chip is the star of the show the cpu results in my opinion are a bit of a mixed bag so yeah we have been able to see that 18 figure in geekbench but in pretty much all of the other tests i ran it's looking like the actual cpu gains are more in the 11 to 15 range but apple really killed it with the gpus here i mean granted we don't know if the gpu cores themselves are that much difference but just adding two more cores has yielded thirty to forty percent gains in pretty much every application so i think they've really got a sweet spot dialed in here for the gpu i think eight cores probably just wasn't enough 10 is a great sweet spot and i think that it's going to make the m2 chip in all of its many applications over the next year or so an incredibly valuable chip but there is something else that we have to consider and that is that adding those additional gpu cores would theoretically require more power at wwdc apple showed their graph of gpu performance and sure enough you could see the m2 chip consumes a few watts more than the m1 so what does that mean for battery life well as a part of my benchmarking suite i wanted to find out so i ran many of my benchmarks side by side well on battery from 100 on both devices the test order was as follows i started by exporting a 10 minute clip in davinci resolve then i moved over to gfx bench where i ran the full testing suite two times back to back and then after that i ran cinebench back to back two times so with well over an hour of heavy load testing this should give us a pretty good sample size and the results were well the m1 after all this was sitting at 62 battery well the m2 was at 64 battery however one caveat that you should definitely keep in mind is that my m1 macbook pro is from november 2020. now it granted only has 60 cycles on the battery and it's showing up as being at 100 capacity so i don't think it should make a huge difference but bearing that in mind i'm going to call this a dead heat now that is honestly a really really interesting result because the majority of that test was gfx bench and i did that intentionally because we have additional gpu cores drawing additional power and yet the m2 did really really well here i don't notice a difference in battery life now i am going to do some more diving into the battery on these devices i'm also going to be comparing the m2 chip to the m1 pro so we'll do some battery comparisons there and definitely make sure to get subscribed so you don't miss those but at the very least i am really really impressed with the m2 chip and the way that it's handling its performance it's better than the m1 but they've somehow done that while drawing more power without sacrificing battery life so i am curious to know what you guys make of all this do you think the m2 chip is a worthy upgrade over the m1 or are you more excited for m3 and some future generations of apple silicon on a different manufacturing process let me know in the comments below as usual thank you guys so much for watching make sure to stay tuned for a lot more coverage yet to come and with that i will see you guys in the next video youoh boy oh boy brand new mac and it's definitely not the same as the old one oh boy i can't wait to do a an extremely long and thorough unboxing here on youtube and definitely i'm not gonna rush through this in a joking way and comment on how it doesn't look any different than the old one uh definitely not gonna do that so whoa here it is here's the new macbook pro everyone let's go what do we got here we got a cord look at that we got some we got a brick and then we got the laptop itself and hey all right so to make things a little bit easier on both of us uh my new m2 macbook pro i got in silver and that way we can tell them apart so that's just like a little community service for you guys i hope you enjoy it but the focus of this video is not hello the focus of this video is not on the package i'm actually quite glad that apple didn't change a single goddamn thing about the m2 macbook pro because it means we can have a direct apples to apples comparison of the m2 versus the m1 chip the exact same chassis the exact same cooling system the exact same battery life that means we can really test what is new with m2 and that is what this video is about so like comment subscribe and let's get into it what better use for a new mac is there than to get started with today's video sponsor skillshare an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes whether you're looking to sharpen your skills or learn something completely new skillshare has the courses and tools for you if you want to harness your new apple silicon mac to learn about swift and ar kit for apple devices or you want to do something completely new and different like this course on black and white photography using color filters for enhancement skillshare has high quality courses to suit your interests i first used skillshare about four or five years ago when i had less than 10 000 subscribers and i found a lot of their beginner courses on starting a successful youtube channel to be quite helpful you can learn all sorts of tricks like where to place background elements what sort of titles and texts to use as well as keywords for titles and thumbnails and with anything from short 40 minute courses to over four hours skillshare has courses to suit your time constraints and level of dedication to get started with skillshare today the first 1000 people to click the link in the description below or use code lukemiani will get a one month free trial of skillshare so check that out today and now let's get back to the video okay so i just want to be clear right at the outset of this video that i am not going to be making any judgments on the 13-inch macbook pro as a package as i alluded to at the beginning this video is about the m2 chip and fortunately we have two identical vessels which allow us to get very very accurate apples to apples comparison literally so while you should absolutely get subscribed and turn on notifications for my full review on the m2 macbook pro today we're talking about the m2 chip so let's get started with some synthetic benchmarks the m2 chip promises up to 18 better cpu and up to 35 percent better gpu performance so let's see if it can actually deliver on that promise in geekbench 5 we see a multi-core score of 8914 up from 76.28 on the m1 macbook pro that's an improvement of almost exactly 18 and in single core we see improvements from 1729 on the m1 all the way to 1892 and that means the m2 chip has now matched the single core king the core i9 12900k that's an impressive feat considering the m2 chip is on the same manufacturing process as m1 however when we move over to cinebench r23 which is more demanding than geekbench we see smaller gains compared to m1 our score of 8706 compared to 7726 gives us a gain of 12.6 percent decent but not ludicrous and definitely not the 18 apple showed off however while testing in cinebench something stood out to me these two identical macbooks which have identical cooling systems don't have the same thermal and fan behaviors when running cinebench the m1 macbook pro has been famed since its launch for being unbelievably quiet even under full load but i did not have the same experience with the m2 midway through a cinebench run the m1 macbook pro sounds like this but the m2 is noticeably louder it sounds like this but it's important to note that fan noise wasn't like this all the time in fact that clip was the loudest i heard the m2 macbook pro it seemed to vary a lot more than the m1 at times it would be barely audible sometimes it was as loud as you saw in that clip for the most part the m1 sits at 3300 rpm on its fan but the m2 sits at around 5200 this is a perplexing difference that can only really indicate one thing the m2 chip seems to be running its cores a little bit harder in order to hit that increased performance target and the result of that is it's not as quiet as an m1 macbook so with that said let's get back to some more benchmarks next up i ran some rosetta benchmarks to get a look at how m2 compares when running translated benchmarks in novabench our score of 2336 is just seven percent better than the m1 macbook pro but in v-ray we see a more impressive 14 gain over m1 it's interesting that in these apps we see smaller gains than in native or optimized ones but one area where apple is taking a brute force approach is the gpu which i had long considered the weaker point of the m1 chip the cpu in this thing has always been absolutely bananas but the gpu while still better than integrated graphics wasn't really anything too crazy so rather than just boost the clocks boost the amount of power that they're sending to the cpu which seems to be the approach for the m2 apple went ahead and just added two more gpu cores and that makes a big difference in 3dmark wildlife extreme we see a score of 6764 compared to 49.77 on the m1 that's an increase of just over 35 this is a perfect linear scale in line with what apple claimed for apps that can take advantage of all the available cores this is great news in gfx bench we see some even more impressive gains in the popular aztec high tier off screen we find impressive 40 improvement in manhattan 1080p off screen the gains are 45 and in t-rex 42 these are some seriously impressive results even outperforming what apple claimed the m2 chip could do so clearly these extra gpu cores go a long way and it's kind of interesting because in the m1 ultra when you're talking about 48 and 64 gpu cores i mainly focused on how adding cores wasn't really doing anything but when you come back down the product stack to the bottom going from 8 to 10 there's a lot of apps that can take advantage of those extra cores and it is a really big difference but synthetic benchmarks only tell part of the story so let's change gears and look at some real world tests starting with video editing in final cut pro here we should finally see some pretty decent improvements for the m2 chip because of the addition of media encoders which we're missing on the m1 so theoretically we should be able to increase our performance unlocked from that 18 and 35 cpu and gpu figure so does it actually happen well i imported a 10 minute 4k 60 fps clip and rendered color correction on it in final cut pro on the m1 this took more than nine and a half minutes but the m2 did it in eight and a half a full minute faster but percentage-wise this only represented a 13 improvement exporting yielded similar results well two full minutes faster it's still a gain of just 15 for the m2 chip puzzled i flipped over to davinci resolve same 10 minute 4k clip this time a quick prores export this one was super interesting the m1 chip took 10 minutes and 48 seconds but the m2 took 8 minutes and 10 seconds that's 32 percent faster what in the world is going on here how is it that davinci resolve is seeing 30 plus percent gains but final cut pro is only seeing 12 to 15. this is a very weird result and i think i'm gonna have to do some more digging to figure out what's going on here this was just a preliminary look and honestly beats me maybe final cut pro needs to be updated to take advantage of the m2 chip so i'll revisit this if there is new information but for now weird right so let's move on to blender starting with cpu cycles in the classroom test we saw a modest gain of just 11 which still equates to more than a minute saved in render time but in the gpu test with metal api things are a lot more promising a whopping minute and a half difference yields 38 improvement over m1 once again outperforming apple's own promises this is a big deal for entry-level apple silicon and we see it again in the bmw test with just 33 seconds saved in the cpu render the gpu render shows some very tasty returns 32.8 percent faster in another 3d modeling suite octane x we should expect some impressive scores thanks to stellar apple silicon optimization and sure enough while the m1 took 29 minutes and 15 seconds to render the m2 took just over 21 minutes an impressive 38 faster so clearly what we can see today is that the gpu in the m2 chip is the star of the show the cpu results in my opinion are a bit of a mixed bag so yeah we have been able to see that 18 figure in geekbench but in pretty much all of the other tests i ran it's looking like the actual cpu gains are more in the 11 to 15 range but apple really killed it with the gpus here i mean granted we don't know if the gpu cores themselves are that much difference but just adding two more cores has yielded thirty to forty percent gains in pretty much every application so i think they've really got a sweet spot dialed in here for the gpu i think eight cores probably just wasn't enough 10 is a great sweet spot and i think that it's going to make the m2 chip in all of its many applications over the next year or so an incredibly valuable chip but there is something else that we have to consider and that is that adding those additional gpu cores would theoretically require more power at wwdc apple showed their graph of gpu performance and sure enough you could see the m2 chip consumes a few watts more than the m1 so what does that mean for battery life well as a part of my benchmarking suite i wanted to find out so i ran many of my benchmarks side by side well on battery from 100 on both devices the test order was as follows i started by exporting a 10 minute clip in davinci resolve then i moved over to gfx bench where i ran the full testing suite two times back to back and then after that i ran cinebench back to back two times so with well over an hour of heavy load testing this should give us a pretty good sample size and the results were well the m1 after all this was sitting at 62 battery well the m2 was at 64 battery however one caveat that you should definitely keep in mind is that my m1 macbook pro is from november 2020. now it granted only has 60 cycles on the battery and it's showing up as being at 100 capacity so i don't think it should make a huge difference but bearing that in mind i'm going to call this a dead heat now that is honestly a really really interesting result because the majority of that test was gfx bench and i did that intentionally because we have additional gpu cores drawing additional power and yet the m2 did really really well here i don't notice a difference in battery life now i am going to do some more diving into the battery on these devices i'm also going to be comparing the m2 chip to the m1 pro so we'll do some battery comparisons there and definitely make sure to get subscribed so you don't miss those but at the very least i am really really impressed with the m2 chip and the way that it's handling its performance it's better than the m1 but they've somehow done that while drawing more power without sacrificing battery life so i am curious to know what you guys make of all this do you think the m2 chip is a worthy upgrade over the m1 or are you more excited for m3 and some future generations of apple silicon on a different manufacturing process let me know in the comments below as usual thank you guys so much for watching make sure to stay tuned for a lot more coverage yet to come and with that i will see you guys in the next video you\n"