Mac vs. PC: Speed Differences in Video Editing, Rendering, and Gaming
A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a $5496 PC reveals significant speed differences in video editing, rendering, and gaming.
00:00:00 A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a $5496 PC in terms of speed, efficiency, and user experience in 2023.
The video compares Apple's fastest Mac, the M2 Ultra Max Studio, to a $5496 PC.
The Mac Studio has 24 CPU cores, 76 GPU cores, 128GB of memory, and 4TB of storage.
The Mac Studio's high specs make it a powerful machine for demanding tasks, but its price is comparable to a high-end workstation PC.
00:02:12 A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a custom-built PC, highlighting the differences in setup process, performance, and cost.
💻 The speaker compares an overkill liquid cooled PC workstation to the Mac Studio M2 Ultra, emphasizing the portability of the Mac and the ease of use in setting it up.
⚙️ While the Mac Studio requires minimal setup and updates, the PC build requires extensive research, compatibility checks, Windows installation, BIOS update, driver installations, and Windows updates.
💰 The Mac Studio is priced at $7,000, while the custom PC build costs $5,500. The speaker mentions that spending on water cooling hardware and compact case adds to the cost.
00:04:22 A test comparing the performance of Apple's Mac Studio and a personal PC reveals that the Mac Studio is faster for both multi-threaded and single-threaded CPU tasks. However, the personal PC outperforms in GPU-intensive tasks and video editing.
💻 The Mac Studio outperforms a $5496 PC in both multi-threaded and single-threaded CPU tests.
🖥️ The PC's RTX 4090 GPU is four times faster than the Mac Studio, allowing for quicker rendering and increased frame output.
🎥 Both the PC and Mac Studio have similar performance in timeline editing, but the Mac Studio's clip stabilization capabilities are impressive.
00:06:33 A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a $5496 PC reveals significant speed differences in stabilizing clips, mask tracking, and video exports. The Mac Studio outperforms the PC in all areas, including running Final Cut Pro and Blender.
🔍 The Mac Studio stabilizes clips in 1.6 seconds, significantly faster than a PC build that takes 6 seconds.
🔬 The Mac Studio performs mask tracking about a second quicker than a PC.
⏩ The Mac Studio exports videos faster than a high-performance PC build, even beating the transcript speaker's own setup.
00:08:43 A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a $5496 PC. The PC outperforms the Mac in rendering and gaming, while the Mac struggles with denoising and introduces input lag in gaming. However, gaming performance on the Mac is decent with some minor glitches.
🖥️ The speaker compares the rendering performance of an expensive PC with an Apple Mac, noting that the PC is much faster.
🎮 The speaker tests gaming performance on the Mac and finds that while some games have issues, Fortnite runs well with high FPS.
🖥️🎮 The speaker highlights the ease of connecting a high refresh rate gaming monitor to the Mac and the potential for improved gaming performance.
00:10:54 A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a $5496 PC. The Mac's display has impressive resolution and color quality, but is capped at 60Hz. The Mac Studio is incredibly quiet, but lacks cooling potential. Apple's hardware is highly efficient.
🖥️ The Apple Pro Display has an impressive resolution and color quality, but it is limited to 60Hz.
🔇 The Mac Studio is remarkably quiet even under full load, which is impressive but could limit its cooling potential.
💡 Apple's hardware, especially the CPU cores, is highly efficient with lower power consumption and higher performance compared to AMD's latest series.
00:13:05 A comparison between Apple's fastest Mac and a PC, highlighting the differences in GPU rendering performance and the benefits of the Mac ecosystem. The Mac excels in video editing and photo editing, but falls behind in GPU rendering tasks.
🖥️ The performance per watt on Apple's M2 Ultra is lower than a PC's GPU rendering performance.
🍏📱 Using Apple products in the ecosystem allows for seamless integration across devices and quick file transfers.
💻🖼️🔊 For tasks like video editing, photo editing, and audio work, the Mac Studio performs slightly better than the lower-priced Mac Mini and M2 Pro.
🖥️🎮 In terms of GPU rendering performance, there is a significant difference between Mac and PC, with PC offering much faster rendering times.
⏰ The difference in GPU rendering performance between Mac and PC can result in completing work in minutes on a PC compared to hours on a Mac.
💻 Despite the advantages of Apple's Mac, the speaker prefers to stick with their powerful Mini PC for full-time production use.
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