Rendering Test.Blend on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro using Blender-2.79-macOS-10.6

[Irinikus]

I just ran Blender 2.79-macOS-10.6 on my MacBook M1 Pro.

Here's the result of the test, when rendering Test.Blend:

It rendered in just over 2 seconds, which is insane!

 

[Elf]

The M1 Macs are pretty zippy indeed. Most of what I run on mine (DAW software and VST plugins) runs under Rosetta but still does quite well.

 

[Irinikus]

Mine’s simply going to be used for general admin.

 

[WDB]

Pretty good for a laptop, my HP Z640 does the test blend in just over a second in blender 2.79, my Z640 has 20 cores.

 

[Irinikus]

It is pretty good and also take into account that it's running through the rosetta compatibility layer!

 

[WDB]

The way it is going now it won't be long before a computer the size of a Raspberry Pi is faster than my HP, new gaming rigs already destroy it. I thought about getting an M1 Mac Mini, maybe I should pick one up.

 

[doc]

Wait for the release of M2