What was the status of Low Power Mode on the M3? "Always," "Never," or "Only on Battery?" If it was on, I'd be interested in if the results are any different with it set to "Never" (although I know Blender's ray tracing hasn't yet had time to fully optimize around the new M3 RT architecture).
@@BlendlogicTech My Legion slim 5 is limited to 4GB from Bios, but i read it's adjusted automatically beyond that from system RAM, i expect all 96GB to be usable for iGPU that i have installed.
@@Shura859Correct - someone posted APU GPU mode doesnt work with blender cuz AMD hasn't relased drivers - I had not done prior research and just noticed when I choose 780m it says canont run - thus the CPU to CPU comparison -- but I did show/talk about M3 Pro GPU and RT performance
yeah man for real, My rtx2070 does this scene in 25sec so non of these are of any utility. Even M3 Max with 40cores, seems it's about (maybe) as fast as rtx3070/3080 (desktop) and that's a laptop for 4K$+ wthout taxes. Truth is still - If you're a 3d artist that does some amount of 3d rendering, get an Nvidia, preferebly desktop. no alternative at the moment if you want performance.
I've came to that idea/conclusion - but on reddit ppl downvote me - I dont do this work I just somehow got youtube algo to get people to watch video adn its not hard to make these video so I do them. But Like - I just play dota /league - and Dota 2 does not run 100% as windows - so yea even gaming aint good. Its honestly just really good for video editing in the encoders and browsing/etams etc - Teams/Zoom runs 0 0lag so yea
Its probably minutes and not hours for this cpu render, my very old laptop renders in about 1h35 on cpu. (Close to 100 times slower than the new metal RT render ! ha ha ) Maybe blender uses only the performance cores on the Mac, or maybe this is one of the cases where hyper threading is effective. For other tasks, you may get different results. Also don't under estimate single core speed. There are many tasks that aren't multi threaded. Anyways, there will always be a faster computer, buying just to have bigger numbers will make you regret in a few month when the new ones come out. That Mac that you have looks like a good compromise between power and efficiency.. and has a nice screen too.
Oh wow lol your right haha I've tested this before but always with GPU - went back to the tape and my previous videos and it is indeed MM:SS:millisecond (how do you show ms in short hand besides ms? is it :ms,ms lol)
What was the status of Low Power Mode on the M3? "Always," "Never," or "Only on Battery?" If it was on, I'd be interested in if the results are any different with it set to "Never" (although I know Blender's ray tracing hasn't yet had time to fully optimize around the new M3 RT architecture).
I dont know to be honest - never checked setting - whatever default is - I would assume it was Never?
There's also a Performance mode that you can turn on for the Macbook. I wonder what the performance difference is like with that turned on.
Good comparison! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
The HIP and OpenCL renders don't work because AMD has not released ROCm for ZEN4 RDNA3 APU'S that were released 11 months ago.
oh didnt know that - thought it was just the memory limit
@@BlendlogicTech My Legion slim 5 is limited to 4GB from Bios, but i read it's adjusted automatically beyond that from system RAM, i expect all 96GB to be usable for iGPU that i have installed.
I think that is not correct using both Render devices on any one of these machines.. my m3 pro runs way better when i only choose the first option...
That’s correct the GPU option is faster - but AMD can’t run it so I do a CPU vs CPU test
This is a Cpu comparison. My rtx 3090 "runs way better when I choose the first option..." too.
@@Shura859Correct - someone posted APU GPU mode doesnt work with blender cuz AMD hasn't relased drivers - I had not done prior research and just noticed when I choose 780m it says canont run - thus the CPU to CPU comparison -- but I did show/talk about M3 Pro GPU and RT performance
yeah man for real, My rtx2070 does this scene in 25sec so non of these are of any utility. Even M3 Max with 40cores, seems it's about (maybe) as fast as rtx3070/3080 (desktop) and that's a laptop for 4K$+ wthout taxes. Truth is still - If you're a 3d artist that does some amount of 3d rendering, get an Nvidia, preferebly desktop. no alternative at the moment if you want performance.
I've came to that idea/conclusion - but on reddit ppl downvote me - I dont do this work I just somehow got youtube algo to get people to watch video adn its not hard to make these video so I do them.
But Like - I just play dota /league - and Dota 2 does not run 100% as windows - so yea even gaming aint good. Its honestly just really good for video editing in the encoders and browsing/etams etc - Teams/Zoom runs 0 0lag so yea
Its probably minutes and not hours for this cpu render, my very old laptop renders in about 1h35 on cpu.
(Close to 100 times slower than the new metal RT render ! ha ha )
Maybe blender uses only the performance cores on the Mac, or maybe this is one of the cases where hyper threading is effective. For other tasks, you may get different results.
Also don't under estimate single core speed. There are many tasks that aren't multi threaded.
Anyways, there will always be a faster computer, buying just to have bigger numbers will make you regret in a few month when the new ones come out.
That Mac that you have looks like a good compromise between power and efficiency.. and has a nice screen too.
Oh wow lol your right haha I've tested this before but always with GPU - went back to the tape and my previous videos and it is indeed MM:SS:millisecond (how do you show ms in short hand besides ms? is it :ms,ms lol)
You said you got the m3 for 899?
1899 sorry if I misspoke
that makes more sense XD @@BlendlogicTech