Does Max make use of efficiency cores on Silicon Macs?

redhexagonal

Does anyone with a Silicon Mac know if Max can make full use of the efficiency cores as well as performance cores? I’m looking to upgrade to a silicon mac soon and wondering if there is any point going past M1 . There has been some analysis done of various DAWs and they seem to vary alot in how they are able to use e-cores as well as p-cores , so M1 actually performs better than M3 for some DAWs such as Live, due to the ration of e to p cores in those machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqX4bt9to4

Compviga

+1 for this question in relation to Poly object or multiple top level patchers.

Jan M

I am interested as well. +1

sousastep

tl;dr more performance cores is better

here's my minimum-spec m1 mac running my max rig w/ two top-level patchers & Mixer Parallel Processing enabled.

and this is with 16 top-level patchers each with 1 CPU-hungry plugin.

redhexagonal

Thanks, interesting. So does your machine have 4 e cores and 4 p cores? Mac mini? It looks like Max isn’t using the e cores much , but it would be interesting to see what happens with more load, like at least 4 similar top level patches? Like whether audio starts dropping out or Max starts using the e cores

sousastep

It's a macbook pro with 4 e cores and 4 p cores. I wasn't listening when I took those screenshots but the audio would definitely be dropping out at that point.