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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by oefrha on Thursday March 26, 2026 @10:36PM (#47538542)
Does M5 series have better video encoding chip/chiplet/whatever it is called than M4 series? Because while I’m happy with my M4 Pro overall, H.264 encoding performance with videotoolbox_h264 is disappointingly basically exactly the same as a previous 2018 model Intel Mac mini, and blown out of water by nvenc on any mid to high end Nvidia GPU released in the last half-decade, maybe even full decade. And video encoding is a pretty important part of video editing workflow.
Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by zamadatix on Thursday March 26, 2026 @10:43PM (#47538576)
If you mean editing ProRes is a better fit, if you mean final export software always beats hardware encoders in terms of quality, if you mean mass h.264 transcoding a Mac workstation is probably not the right place though.