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January 2023 Mac Announcement: M2 MacBook Pros & Mac Mini

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NorthAmTransAm said:
@ori69 @CaseySJ is that just a test for how many tracks you can make and run without crashing? Have yall tested workload, such as commonly known heavy plugins?
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Yes.

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CaseySJ said:
Does Logic Pro need a software update or is there a deeper problem?
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MacBook Pro with M2 also plays less tracks than M1.
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@ori69 I appreciate my alder lake hack more and more. I've also been using an old macbook pro and Audio Gridder for off loading DSP for Acustica's monstrous plugins. Kinda cool. Could get an M1 just for that!
 
NorthAmTransAm said:
@ori69 I appreciate my alder lake hack more and more. I've also been using an old macbook pro and Audio Gridder for off loading DSP for Acustica's monstrous plugins. Kinda cool. Could get an M1 just for that!
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Me too. Not the kind of mac that pulls as many tracks as an i9 13900KF.

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ori69 said:
Me too. Not the kind of mac that pulls as many tracks as an i9 13900KF.

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When my finances chill (never) I plan to put the 13900 in my 690. We'll see how well that goes though. Its just nice to be able to work without stopping to problem solve (freeze, change instances, use lite versions of plugins, etc...)

If I could get all E-Cores up to like 4.5 i'd use the whole spread. Right now I'm only on P.
 
Shouldn't you be looking at M2 Pro for Logic?

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pastrychef said:
Shouldn't you be looking at M2 Pro for Logic?

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If I were you, I would seriously consider switching to Apple Silicon. On the i9 9900K Logic Benchmark achieves 140-150 tracks.

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i5 13600KF 230 tracks
i7 12700k 280 tracks
i9 12900K 350 tracks
i9 13900K 467 tracks
 
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ori69 said:
On the Logic forum we tested two Mac's Mini (8GB RAM SSD 256GB and 16GB RAM SSD 1TB) in Logic benchmark and the performance is not much better than MINI on 2018 Intel processor and worse than MINI with M1.
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From the results, I suppose that's
mini M1 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD
mini M2 8 GB RAM, 256 GB
Is Logic Pro limited by RAM (or RAM bandwidth), by storage bandwidth (known weakness of the 256 GB M2), or both?

NB The graph not starting at zero makes it look more severe than it actually is: 76 / 80 / 90.
 
etorix said:
From the results, I suppose that's
mini M1 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD
mini M2 8 GB RAM, 256 GB
Is Logic Pro limited by RAM (or RAM bandwidth), by storage bandwidth (known weakness of the 256 GB M2), or both?

NB The graph not starting at zero makes it look more severe than it actually is: 76 / 80 / 90.
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Memory bandwidth and SSD speed in this test does not matter at all. Only processor speed and RAM clocking do. We tested 2 MINI macs with M2 processor (8GB RAM SSD 256GB and 16GB RAM SSD 1TB) and they achieved the same results.

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