Apple said in its MacBook Pro that the M2 Max’s media engine has “twice the ProRes support to dramatically accelerate media playback and transcoding” compared to the M1 Max.
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Putting the M2 Max MacBook Pro through its paces, Brian Tong ran multiple tests against the Mac Studio with M1 Ulta, M1 Max MacBook Pro, and more.
Confirming Apple’s claim, the M2 Max’s dedicated dual ProRes encode and decode engines delivered impressive power. It was just shy of 2x faster than the M1 Max export. But it impressively even beat out the M1 Ultra by seven seconds.
However, the M1 Ultra in the Mac Studio remained faster for exports like Adobe Premiere and scored the highest in a Metal GPU performance test. For accuracy, Brian ran each of these tests three times.
