Using ffmpeg/Handbrake is a less common activity, especially with hardware encoders. If you check out the Max Tech reviews on youtube, you can see the Max is getting 4k90fps, which is impressive.

I think part of the reason is most people using hardware encoders are doing so via an NLE (FCP, Resolve or Premiere). Anyway I was impressed and now I really feel I have a portable system that can get the job done if I work from home.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah, I agree it'd be nice if these things were reported on or avoided. Not sure which or how many cores? On the PC I had the Performance monitor open so I could see all 24 cores/ 48 threads were in use and way more swapping going on and memory usage. I did have Activity monitor open and iStat monitoring (did I mention I had it hooked up to two 27' 4K monitors too?) The M1 Max showed 93% CPU usage but memory use was low.

Not even in the ball park to how hot my 13' 2020 MBP i7 would get doing the same task and taking a lot longer. What was also impressive was the MBP was only slightly warm. Not totally scientific and as I said I am not at work so I don't have detailed stats but for me anything that shaves 5 minutes off is 5 minutes I am not having to wait. Keep in mind Handbrake, if I am remembering correctly, installed using Rosetta. It took 14 minutes on the M1 and 19 minutes on the PC to convert the MKV to an MP4. Okay I am not at work now where I did this little experiment, but today I took a 1080p 105 minute 5.8Gb MKV video and ran it through Handbrake on my 2021 14' MBP M1 Max, 64GB and also on my Windows 10 PC - with 2970WX Threadripper, 64 GB DDR4, all SSD drives.

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