Hello, I recently bought a 2015 MacBook Pro 15-inch four cores with Intel Iris Pro GPU at 2.5ghz (it doesn't have a dedicated gpu) can anyone tell me is this Mac is enough for video editing? What about 4K video? Thank you very much.
From mactracker.app :
AMD Radeon R9 M370X and Intel Iris Pro 5200 (2.5 and 2.8 GHz)
Vram 2GB M370x, 1.5GB shared Iris Pro.
So, yes it has both a discrete and an integrated GPU with enough capacity for 4k video editing on both.
There is also a non dGPU 2.5 GHz model: http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...-iris-only-mid-2015-retina-display-specs.html
That is a custom order when you upgrade the processor only on the base model, and highly unlikely to be in circulation this soon after it was on sale.
It can be done.So after 6 months of trying this machine out what are the conclusions? I'm about to purchase a MBP 2015 15'' and I want to edit 4K video...
It can be done.
I'm using a quad 2.2Ghz MBP2015 and it can edit 4K 30FPS smoothly without stutter. Impressive. Better than I expected.
Yeh I know I finally went for it back in July. Sometimes just spending almost 2K answers the question doesn't it ?! It's a beast indeed
The CPU in the MBP has Intel QuickSync which is a dedicated bit of hardware for encoding h.264 files (single pass only). The Mac Pro cylinders' Xeon chips don't have Quick Sync so all the encoding is done by the CPU, which is significantly slower at the job. Move up to two pass encoding and the Mac Pro will win the race, but most people stick to single pass because it's quicker.Actually, it's not an easy answer. I've a Mac Pro quad 3.7Ghz and Final Cut renders slower compared to the Macbook Pro quad 2.2Ghz. Not sure why that is so but I'm really unhappy with the Mac Pro.
Thank you so much for the information!The CPU in the MBP has Intel QuickSync which is a dedicated bit of hardware for encoding h.264 files (single pass only). The Mac Pro cylinders' Xeon chips don't have Quick Sync so all the encoding is done by the CPU, which is significantly slower at the job. Move up to two pass encoding and the Mac Pro will win the race, but most people stick to single pass because it's quicker.
https://larryjordan.com/articles/mac-pro-video-compression/
...The Mac Pro cylinders' Xeon chips don't have Quick Sync so all the encoding is done by the CPU, which is significantly slower at the job. Move up to two pass encoding and the Mac Pro will win the race, but most people stick to single pass because it's quicker.
https://larryjordan.com/articles/mac-pro-video-compression/