When the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Execs landed earlier this week, there was some confusion on the spec sheet relating to the variety of encoding engines on the M2 Max. Apple has cleared issues up—the M2 Max processor has twice the ProRes engines because the M2 Professional, identical to the M1 Max. 

When the web page initially went dwell, the M2 Max processor on the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional was listed as having only a single video encode, ProRes encode, and ProRes decode engine regardless of the M1 Max having two of every. Including to the confusion was the M2 Max press launch, which touted the chip’s “two video encode engines and two ProRes engines, bringing as much as 2x sooner video encoding than M2 Professional.”

Apple has now clarified within the MacBook Professional’s tech specs that the M2 Max does certainly have twice as many video encode and ProRes engines because the M1 Professional and M2. The M1 chip doesn’t have a video encode engine or ProRes encode and decode engine. The M1 Max additionally delivers extra graphics cores and reminiscence than the M2 Professional, with a 30- or 38-core GPU and as much as 96GB of reminiscence.

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Apple’s ProRes engine offers usually smoother efficiency for high-end codecs similar to H.264 that will in any other case tax the system’s sources. When utilizing video manufacturing apps similar to Closing Reduce Professional and DaVinci Resolve, the ProRes encoders can present a lot sooner speeds, and clearly two of them imply even sooner efficiency.

So if you happen to’re spending $3,000 or extra on a MacBook Professional with an M2 Max processor, relaxation assured that the media engine will certainly be sooner than the M2 Professional.