M1 Ultra Mac Studio 3 Months Later - This Machine Shouldn't Be Possible 

This guy's a really good presenter, he geeks out but he does it really naturally and comes across really professional.

This guy got something special, Not pluffing, straight into point, his channel got lot of space to grow.

This is the first time viewing one of your (his) videos and WOW was this fantastic. Less than 8 min to get all that info in, great transitions, audio is fantastic, and the dialog was silky as well. Marvelously done! Maybe the fastest sub I've ever given.

I love it so much!!! I forget it even exists. It's so tiny and quiet, but it does everything so fast/flawlessly.

Good presentation. Well-spoken and clear! Good transitions and graphics. Thanks for the insight.

I set up one of these for some professional video editors and when they used it, they sounded just like the original keynote users. This machines rocks!

I very seldomly subscribe to somebody after just watching one of their videos, but you have such a wonderfully elegant editing style, truly a wonderful video. Looking forwards to exploring your channel more!

Great piece of content! The editing on classical music is on point! Well done 🤌

Thank you . I really enjoyed this.your imagery is beautiful and very informative. I have the ultra and it’s incredible, but couldn’t put together a video as good as this.

phenomenal info, edit, and music! Thank you for putting this video together and quickly rendering it.

Have that Ultra, just didnt upgrade the graphics. It is a beast. No more thinkin "is my computer fast enought" - just pure joy working with it. THAT is a game changer.

thanks Zy. I appreciate your professional reviews. Wishing you even greater success than you already have achieved with your channel.

As powerful as it is .. I think there’s still plenty of room for software to be optimized for even more speed, power, and efficiency.

Great video. Enjoy it from start to finish. Thanks for sharing

What really impresses me about the m1 as a video editor is how it decodes and makes great use of pro res files. it has made my workflows and renders so much faster. Especially in after effects

Well put together video, your a natural

Excellent review, extremely well-presented facts and comments and amazingly high-quality video images. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic video one of the best I have seen on the Mac Studio - well done and thank you.

Awesome filmmaking, cozy music! love your videos!

Nice video - helpful information presented in a compact, easy to digest format. May I ask: what is the noise reduction software you used in the benchmark for this video? Thanks, Martin

Some of the best b-roll visuals - and visuals over all I’ve seen on RU-vid. Count me a new sub.

Not gonna lie. I only clicked on this because I wanted to see a kitty sitting on a mac studio. I wasn't disappointed. I love my Max Studio.

I still love my excellent M1 Max Mac Studio for us the general public.

Great presentation Mr. Cheng!

You are excellent at your craft. Clear, succinct and on point! Tight stylish, editing combined with a compelling spoken voice made me a subscriber. Wonderful.

I didn't even open the box to the ultra that I pre-ordered in the Spring. I returned it when I saw the lack of software optimization. But I did pick up a base MAX with 2TB and I love having a clean desk setup.

You’re amazing man! Keep it up!

Dude. I love your editing techniques and the video. You, sir, have gained a new sub!

Great video! Beautifully made

This video is so enjoyable. Love your work 😊

Very good presentation. Thanks.

Love your videography man.

A very professional presentation. Thank you.

The music at each new chapter is nice! Very classy!

A really cool video production! Loved it

Keep making videos - they’re incredible 🎉

Great review 🔥

thx for this great review

Love the video and the style!

great video!

Been using the M1 Pro Macbook 16gig/1TB variant. Pretty happy with it as a high end mobile device. It does get toasty when doing Premiere exports of up to around 70 degrees but with running MacFan I can push it down to just under 65 degrees

This is the first video I’ve ever seen of yours, and I just have to say, you are delightful to watch and listen to. Your voice and accent are alluring and your energy is infectious. Definitely going to be looking for more 😉 ~Trav

I have 14in mcbook pro m1 max. And I love it. Especially for Blender Renders on the go. I wanted to see tests other than video editing but most of these comparisons are video edits only.

Amazing video well-presented x.

The power efficiency is one of the reasons why I bought mine. It’s not my most powerful PC by most metrics (also have a 3970x/3090 machine and a 5950x/3090 PC), but my Mac Studio is the one I tend to leave on all day. Yes, I’m beyond overkill with an M1 Ultra with all the cores and 128GB/2TB of RAM and storage, but it’s all good.

What I love about the tech beind the creation of the M1 Ultra chip is that you can see the path where Apple is going with it, if it works so well at this small scale, then it should be very straightforward to scale it up to a Mac Pro sized, where you could have whole clusters of these combined chips working in parallel.

Wow. What a great video. Thanks

Excellent video. BTW could you give me the details of your video editing console?

Thanks for doing some real world, intensive tests using noise reduction and transcoding. Way more useful than just showing basic editing.

Why on earth haven't I seen your videos before?! You're so nice! Subbed!!!!!

Great review.

how big is the ssd on the ultra used in this very very good looking video?

what I want to really see is a 32-Core GPU M1 Max versus a 64-Core GPU M1 Ultra both with 64GB RAM and both hardware SSD slots being used, ensuring max read/write. (doesn’t really matter what storage size so long as both slots are filled but for my personal happiness and to remove all doubt i’d like for them to be the same) THIS would be the fairest and most scientific comparison of the raw power difference between the M1 Max & the M1 Ultra and I don’t think i’ve seen anyone on youtube do it

Gorgeous work in this video! I have the Ultra, 48, 64 and it has revolutionized my workflow. It just removes all obstacles and let’s me create. Best professional investment I’ve ever made.

Dudeee, great video!

dude what's the audio thing on the left??? looks sick!

This got me thinking back to the days of editing video on a Power Mac G5.

It’s fantastic working with its own “native” FCP, but how fast is it with Premiere?

Well done!🎉

Awesome video, awesome voice! :-)

Awesome & Thanks 🙏🕊

The efficiency comes from all the hard stuff being done in silicon instead of in software running on general purpose silicon. It's not that surprising if you think about how phones are able to play video all day long off of a tiny battery.

I got the MacBook Pro decked out with the Max and I’m extremely impressed of how I’m able to do work while on “Battery” and it’s faster than my old setup plugged into wall outlet 🤯

Can you do a video on 10-bit HEVC playback/editing with the M1 Max/Ultra?

It's total overkill, I love mine!

supper explanation

whats it like for photo editing? big tiffs?

Subscribed!

I decided to get the M1 Max model and for the difference in money, I replaced my old MBP16 with new M1 Pro MBP14. I am pretty happy with the outcome.

This was eye opening. The studio I work for has us set up on a 2020 iMac, a Mac Studio with M1 Max, and a 2017 iMac Pro. I'm the new guy in the office and get to work with the 2020 iMac that has a 10-core i9, Radeon Pro 5700 XT and 64GB RAM. I can barely get Premiere to play nicely with a 4k file from a Canon C300 mark III. It's constantly dropping frames and render times for 10 minute videos are upwards of 15 minutes. Meanwhile, if I move over to my personal M1 MacBook Air, I can render in half the time. I can't imagine working on a the Mac Studio. I'd have so much more time to work on my projects!

what’s the thing you used to measure watts?

I was very excited when the M1 Ultra was released in the Studio. I'm not an early adopter by any means and although I saw the shear possibilities of this design, I wanted to see what was next. Apple ushered in the M2 chipsets this spring and that got me interested. I'm still holding out because I see a Spring 2023 Studio with what could very well be an M2 Ultra -OR- 'Extreme'. I can see Apple putting out a 4-die M2, and if you look at the specs of the maxxed out Ultra, there exists the possibility of the M2 'Extreme' with 40-core CPU, 128-core GPU, 64-core Neural Engine. As a person that was not just working in Davinci Resolve video but also dabbling with Houdini, Unreal, Blender etc on a Mac, the "possibility" of an M2 'Extreme' is a tantalizing prospect for content producers in both the film & VFX world. A chip like that would make it possible to work in a Mac environment and still run complex particle and fluid simulations in realtime, or build a virtual production workstation with a footprint of a lunch box and a power draw of a stereo system .. and THAT is bloody exciting ;) Love this video by the way.

Which mac studio when you work with multicam 3 Streams with 6k braw and projects up to 30 minutes? I use Premiere pro and Aftereffects

Well done Arm.

luv the vid

This is wow. I looking at one right now. I need a new Mac.

It needs all the power if you max out all six thunderbolt channels at the same time. Remember Thunder bold specifications require the thunderbolt channel to supply power to the connected devices unless the device has its own supply. My Sabrent dual NVMe M2 Raid controller has its own 48 watt power brick. How ever many thunder bolt devices need power from the thunder bolt connection. Remember many thunderbolt devices can stack other thunderbolt devices so this power could easily reach 200 watts if all six channels were active with stacked devices at the same time.

1:05 "ARMs you" hehe Puns

how does this work with C4D simulations/octane and Xparticles?

What a fantastic video

The bigger question, how does it play with Adobe. All Mac software has been adjusted for these processors.

What's on the left hand side of the desk at 2:10? (silver)

Don’t they have a bunch of hardware dedicated to video codecs though? Curious how things like Blender perform

Like just for the thumbnail alone 👌🏼

would this be good for rendering with Blender?

This is a super powerful computer. Its power is editing video super fast.

I think its funny that the hottest Part on the thermal camera is the plug

The software that I run seems to be bound, not by the CPU or GPU, but by the Neural Engine (NE.) But I'm not aware of anyone who has done a performance test of the NE on any Mac. In fact, I'm not aware of anyone who has created a utility to measure the load on the NE. Even Apple's macOS doesn't seem to have an option for measuring this (eg, in the ps command.) Do you have any experience with measuring the NE? If it's improved from the M1, I'd most likely buy a new Mac.

I Love my Mac studio Ultra, it handles everything i throw at it like a champ! with the exception of 3D rendering, where my old PC rig (With a 3090ti hehehe) Blows it out of the water. So i just use both at their strengths :)

How can you get along with noise it makes? I am serious.

How do I disconnect one of the monitors without pulling the cable?

And Apple still has the market drooling over the Mac Pro. Great video!

What are your thoughts on a M1 ultra mac studio vs an M2 Max mac studio?

I've got the M1 Max Mac Studio with 64 GB RAM. Don't do anything to intensive with it. At most I sometimes have 4-5 Twitch streams open at a time, which I wouldn't call intensive, but others seem to disagree. I know 4-5 is a lot, but I mod in a few that happen to be live at the same time. Anyway, I have a question for my fellow M1 Mac Studio users. If you are a Twitch user, watching on Safari, if you watch a stream for maybe 1+ hours and the stream ends/raids/hosts another channel, does Safari give you a beach ball for a few seconds? Even causing all other Twitch streams or YT videos to "pause" during the beach ball issue.

But what happens if you do non video related duties like blending rendering.

Amazing video, production quality is great, keep it on .but you already had me at cat 🐱

Can anyone tell me how I can get faster load times when I open logic?

Love mine, hardly breaking a sweat. I have to compile hard on all cores and use the GPU to get it anywhere near 60 degrees. And as soon as the load is gone, it drops right back into the low 40s. It feels like I can throw pretty much anything at it. The only issue I had was with the USB A ports. I have a ton of USB devices with hubs behind hubs, KVM switch etc. - and it would actually make it crash repeatedly. When I connected it to a USB-C hub instead, everything worked just fine. The older Mac Pro had no issues with the same setup, so I suspect Apple's USB A drivers may be a little sensitive? Maybe I just got unlucky with my model. In any case, using USB-C made it work perfectly fine. Everything else about this thing is brilliant. It is compact, uses little energy, is extremely powerful yet always quiet.

I liked this video. Very professional. Though personally I think the hardware inside the Mac studio makes more sense in a MacBook.

I also have the almost maxed out Mac studio ultra with 128 gigs of RAM and it is astonishing. For editing I mostly use Resolve and I’m absolutely in love with this computer. I have had resolve, premiere pro, after affects and logic pro all open at the same time and the computer doesn’t even hiccup. Loved your video, first time somebody actually spoke the truth about how good the ultra is. I also have a cat but he’s not allowed to get near that computer. He can go anywhere else. Although you didn’t mention it, I also have the Mac Studio monitor and the color accuracy and the sharpness is a perfect match to the computer.