Facts have proved that Apple’s transformation to its custom chips is a huge leap for the industry. The company’s new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are very powerful in terms of processing and graphics. I believe you have seen some praise for the new M1 Pro and M1 Mac chip tests in the new MacBook Pro models.
Now there is a new test, which aims to demonstrate the power of the M1 Max chip in the MacBook Pro through Adobe Lightroom. Tests show that the new M1 Max MacBook Pro is very fast when editing in Adobe Lightroom.
It is understood that the latest test with Lightroom was carried out on a new 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro equipped with a powerful M1 Max chip, which has 32GB of memory; the other is a 2019 MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9, which has a memory of 16 GB. The final result is quite impressive, which shows the processing power of the new MacBook Pro when editing photos.
According to the tester:
Combining six 30-megapixel photos into a panorama is 3.8 times faster on the new MacBook Pro, and takes an average of 14 seconds, while the Intel machine takes 67 seconds. This is the biggest speedup in my test. The smallest is to merge three 30-megapixel photos into one HDR photo. (This process) takes 22 seconds on Intel machines and 12 seconds on M1 Max, which is about 0.9 times faster.
Lightroom still struggles to adapt to Phase One’s huge 151-megapixel original files, but the new Mac handles it much better than my old machine. The panoramic merging of the two photos took a painful 109 seconds on the Intel Mac; it was 2.2 times faster on the M1 Max MacBook Pro, at 34 seconds. Interpreting the original file to generate a full-resolution preview–this is the most common delay I have encountered in Lightroom–is 1.5 times faster on the new machine.