iZotope RX 9 Speed Tests - M1 MacBook Pro Versus Intel Mac Pro
iZotope has recently announced M1 support for RX9, their flagship audio repair software.
So now is a good time to see just how much faster RX running on M1 compares to Intel.
Geoff Manchester from iZotope has made this video making comparisons of some of the most common tasks that RX is used.
In the red corner we have an Apple M1 MacBook Pro and in the blue corner an Apple Mac Pro 2013 Intel Xeon E5. To be honest we would have preferred a test with a more modern Mac, such as the Intel i9 MacBook Pro, that would for us have been a fairer comparison.
However the results are still impressive and show what we should expect when developers tap into the neural processor. The neural processor was first introduced by Apple in their A11 chip used in some iPhone models, then introduced to iPads and with M1 into Apple Macs.
Neural processors are very useful for some kinds of computer tasks, especially for the ‘smart’ software and plugins that are now being found in audio production.
Here’s an explanation from Wikichip
“A neural processing unit (NPU) is a well-partitioned circuit that comprises all the control and arithmetic logic components necessary to execute machine learning algorithms. NPUs are designed to accelerate the performance of common machine learning tasks such as image classification, machine translation, object detection, and various other predictive models. NPUs may be part of a large SoC, a plurality of NPUs may be instantiated on a single chip, or they may be part of a dedicated neural-network accelerator.”
As you can imagine, the introduction of this processing benefits developers like iZotope greatly. We expect even greater advances as they take advantage of these processors.