P: Status of Apple Neural Engine Use?
I wanted to follow up on this topic as it's been radio silence on it for nearly 8 months since AI DeNoise was launched. In the meantime we've not only had multiple updates by Apple to Ventura, we've also had the release of MacOS Sonoma which is rapidly approaching the release of version 14.2.
While I have pretty much left Topaz behind with the release of Adobe's DeNoise and my dissatisfaction with earlier releases of PhotoAI, I just checked it again and with their model updates its now back to being the equal of Adobe's Denoise, but it's a lot faster--it takes less than half the time to process a file on my M2 Ultra with Topaz as it does with Adobe DeNoise. They are using the Apple Neural Engine, regardless of any bugs--and this is confirmed as I can monitor the power draw of the neural engines in the console as I process images. DxO is also using the neural engines. Clearly there are ways to work around the bugs, or these companies have already taken advantage of an Apple fix that we don't know about.
Can we get ANY update from Adobe on this topic? Is it still broken on the MacOS side? Is there a timeline for any future use of this on the Mac? Right now its quite fast, but its clear it could be a lot faster using the ANE (something even Adobe mentioned at release).
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