#3D MAX FOR MAC M1 PRO#
#3D MAX FOR MAC M1 CODE#

I bet the M2 or what comes next will provide a further 1.5 speedup and finally beat the old guys without turning on the fans.

#3D MAX FOR MAC M1 PRO#

The good old Mac Pro still rocks here, but M1 Max is getting pretty close. The same scene was rendered on two older IntelвЂ“based Mac Pros with CPU renderer just to compare the performance: GPU performance in Boxshot is actually above the other benchmarks' numbers, as they usually show about 3.5 times speedup, while Boxshot gets an impressive 5.1 times boost. The GPU to CPU speed comparison is also impressive: while rendering on M1 GPU was 1.6 times faster than on CPU, on the M1 Max it is 5.5 times faster!Д¬PU numbers match the various other benchmarks pretty well, as most of them show about 1.6 times better multiвЂ“core performance compared to M1. So compared to Apple M1, Boxshot renders 1.5 times faster on the new M1 Max CPU and 5.1 times faster on GPU. Here are the results of the tests (HH : MM : SS) the smaller - the better: Now as M1 Max is here and comes with much more GPU (and CPU) power, it would be nice to know how faster it isвЂ¦ Test Results

#3D MAX FOR MAC M1 CODE#

The same code running on IntelвЂ“based Macs, even Mac Pros was terribly slow, so we had to stick with CPUвЂ“only mode for Intel. The first GPU that outвЂ“performed its CPU in our tests was Apple M1, so Boxshot now offers a MetalвЂ“based GPU renderer on that processor.

GPUs prefer performing similar operations on large amount of data, but with ray tracing each ray is different which slows down the GPU pipeline below the CPU speed. We tried to achieve good performance with GPU rendering in Boxshot for many years, but unfortunately ray tracing doesnвЂ™t fit really well there. Both renderers actively use every bit of hardware available, so the test compares the multiвЂ“core performance of the CPU and the overall performance of GPU for both processors pretty well.ДЄll the tests were performed with the latest beta version of Boxshot. The scene was rendered in 4000x2500 pixels resolution with 1000 samples per pixel first on CPU and then on GPU.

3d max for mac m1