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fcpx benchmarks

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    M1 Max - Underwhelming FCPX Video Export Performance (Not a fast as Rene Richie's results)

    I bought a 16" M1 Max (32 GPU cores) and my video export/render times aren't quite living up to what I'm seeing in benchmarks/reviews. For instance the following is from Rene Richie's review on YouTube: (note the M1 Max 13-inch is a typo, it's the 16" model). Here he says he's exporting a 4K...
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    cMP, RX580, and FCPX performance

    I recently installed a Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB card into my 4/5,1, with 32GB RAM and X5680. Boots from Apple SSD SM256E/PCIe; SATA SanDisk Ultra II 480 as working drive. Based on a few comments here and there, this should be the final piece to enable 4K FCPX. I wanted to compare this to my...
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    What's Faster for FCPx? Top End iMac 5K + eGPU or iMac Pro

    Thinking about my next iMac purchase, and wondering if anyone has any input on this. I was pretty sold on the top end iMac Pro when I heard the specs, but based on the benchmarks so far, it seems the Pro models don't scale well according to the cores and price. Since the top end i7 does a good...