The M4 often has stronger single core performance, which is what matters for audio. It’s then a question of how many performance cores an M4 has. The current M4’s are from laptops and (very!) small form factor PC’s. A 14900k, in the form factor of the new Mac Mini, would fry itself!Bottom line is if you look at the benchmarks the i9 destroys the M4 in terms of overall CPU score.
I assure you the M4 Ultra will outperform every Intel 14900 series chip, both in fairly useless (for audio) benchmarks, like Passmark, and actual real-world audio performance, when it’s launched in the spring-summer of 2025.
If someone's looking at the present offerings, it's more about whether they don't need all that performance, and whether they want a larger, power hungry, and more noisy, PC for its advantages? Lately, that mostly comes down to Nvidia cards - whether for 3D, gaming, or “AI”. And, of course, cost.
This is not correct. Many years of VST use without issues on Intel, and I've been through 3 OS changes already, on Apple Silicon, with no issues. The only one I can recall is the M2 series had an issue with the iLok drivers, which iLok corrected.Even if the Mac and PC were exactly the same price with exactly the same specs the fact I'd have to worry about my plugins getting broken every time Apple changes a line of code in their OS
You're not going to compete in price, although you can get closer with non-Apple sources which discount, and going with a base config which upgrades very little (as Apple are infamous for overcharging on Memory and particularly storage). So users have to figure out whether those things are worth it for a machine which is nearly silent machine foir many uses..
Statistics: Posted by PAK — Wed Nov 13, 2024 3:10 pm