Why do MacBooks have better playback performance than other systems?

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June 30, 2020
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I've been having a close look at the Premiere Pro benchmarks over at https://www.pugetsystems.com/benchmarks/ and is very clear that the "Live Playback Performance" of Macbooks is so much better than most other systems. These live playback tests are 4 streams of multicam, 4k 60fps, h264, ProRes 422 and RED.

I can't believe that playback performance on Macbooks outperforms most higher spec computers. Can anyone here answer the question as to why Macbooks playback performance is so much better in genreal?

Whilst higher spec'd systems outperform the Macbooks on output render time. The Macbooks consistently outperform even higher spec'd systems for live playback performance.

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RjL190365

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Actually, it's not MacBooks per se. It's OS X itself. You see, all Macs (including MacBooks) had (relatively speaking) higher live playback scores than Windows systems despite being equipped with weaker GPUs than their Windows counterparts. It's the export scores that dragged the Macs' overall scores down.

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WestleyDAuthor

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That's really interesting. I can certinly see the MacBooks have great live play back perdormance but poor export/render scores. Then it's kind of the oppisite for PC configurations, great export/render times but poor live playback performance.

I really thought I was loosing my mind as based on some of the Macbook specs versus the high end PC specs it seems a crazy unbelievable result.

I really hadn't thought much about diffferences between OSX and Windows. Being both a Mac and PC user I can't believe in all these years I didn't realise the differences in performance in Premiere pro between the two platforms is mostly due to operating systsem and not hardware. How on earth has Microsoft never been able to imporve Windows over the years to address the differences??