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Apple Macbook Pro 2023

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
February 3, 2023
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I am looking to buy a Macbook Pro.

Is it worth spending the extra money on the

12-Core CPU
19-Core GPU

Over the

10-Core CPU
16-Core GPU

Will I see much noticable difference in performance using Photoshop and Lightroom?

macOS

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Chris 486

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Depending on what you are doing, you may not notice a difference at all. Is you plan for perosnal casual use? Do you need to meet tight deadlines as a freelancer and have some cash to burn? Let us know how you plan to use it and we can help pick a product.

I do mobile editing on an $800 laptop with no dedicated GPU and it's great for my needs!

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Mikey CAuthor

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Using for process and edit 20 headshots a week. Thanks

PECourtejoie

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Hi, no question, I'd save 300 on a few cores, and put that money on 32 GB of RAM instead of 16, it just costs 100$ more! Remember that the RAM is shared between CPU and GPU

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Mikey CAuthor

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32mb deffo! Thank you!

D Fosse

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With Lightroom, maybe (but I suspect mostly on an academic level).

With Photoshop, no.

For Photoshop, sufficient free disk space for the scratch disk is the critical bottleneck. About 500 GB free space should be absolute minimum at all times.

Another critical factor is the GPU, but on a Mac that's moot; you don't have a choice. The GPU doesn't need to be extremely powerful, it's not about number of cores - but it does need to support very advanced functions and do so reliably.

What you can do is make sure you have plenty of RAM. On M1/M2, the GPU uses system memory, and that can eat up a large chunk of the installed RAM. While Photoshop itself will normally manage that by using the scratch disk, it will still reserve a lot of memory while working. There may not be a whole lot left for the GPU. Or vice versa - the point is they will compete. You should consider 32 GB absolute minimum, 64 comfortable.

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Mikey CAuthor

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Thanks for the reply,

Budget is always the issue. I'm going for 32mb.

I'm only editing headshots and a superficial level and not 100's, maybe 20 a week so nothing too heavy duty.

I car terms, are these 2 processors sports cars or family cars? If they are sports cars, would you say the 10 core CPU with the 16 core GPU would be like a car that does 0-60 in 6 secs and the 12 core one would to it in 5.5 secs?

Excuse my ignorance, how is free disk space related.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, according to the tests I've read, the Apple Silicon processors are like Teslas, they are all purposes: they are family cars with sport performances: 0-60 in even less seconds, but with power consumption of a Civic, with a LOT of Nm of towing abilities.

for storage space, D_Fosse recommends enough room on the SSD, but if your portrait editing do not have lots of layers, and are not 100MPx to start with, less than 500GB could suffice. You can always get a very fast SSD later for external scratch, or to offload all files, while the internal SSD is dedicated to Scratch; while memory can't be extended at all

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Mikey CAuthor

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I forgot to mention it's the M2 Pro processor

12-Core CPU19-Core GPU

10-Core CPU16-Core GPU

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