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However, many of them on a visible layer (including iterations of the same viewport) cause a noticeable impact on performance. The application is incredibly flexible in the creation and use of viewports, internally and externally referenced. One area that seems to tax Vectorworks performance in regular 2D work is when a file utilizes many external references on a вЂњdesign layerвЂќ in viewports on that layer. We have three files for Vectorworks testing.

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Overall, we think Rosetta 2 is impacting a penalty on the performance, but even under Rosetta 2, SketchUp on the M1-based Mac was more than serviceable-it was quite good. In our third SketchUp model with intensive photographic landscape props, the M1 Mac mini performed exceptionally well and was on par with the iMac Pro. We noticed that when the scene passes over the texture-mapping section of the Falkestrasse facade on both machines, the FPS speeds up noticeably. (M1 on lower right and iMac Pro on left).Д«oth models are simple OpenGL shaded models with transparency (glass), with the Falkestrasse containing some limited texture mapping. But again, the iMac Pro with its Pro Vega 56 GPU card achieved greater than 80 FPS. On the Falkestrasse model, an odd but well-published creation by the architect Coop Himmelblau, the M1 Mac mini achieved greater than 50 FPS scores during its scene transitions. (Image: Architosh / All rights reserved.) Note, each test took place independently, so donвЂ™t be misled by this image. (M1 on upper left, iMac Pro on upper right).ДЄn image of four QuickTimes running together to review results. The iMac Pro achieved 70+ FPS in the first scene transition, compared to the M1 Mac mini, which only reached 40 FPS. We calculate achieved Frame Rates per Second using AppleвЂ™s Quartz Debug app. In the top row in the image below, our Turning Torso tower model (a quite complex but repeating geometry) runs through four scenes and turns.

In our SketchUp 2021 tests, the M1 ran reasonably well under Rosetta, but it was outperformed by the native SketchUp for Intel on the iMac Pro 2017. Importantly, both of these tools were running under Rosetta 2 because they have not been re-coded for Apple Silicon Macs yet. As a result, we have built up some test files.

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Our test files are a series of SketchUp and Vectorworks Architect files, two programs we have most been asked (and performed) product reviews for. The apps are loaded into the system in the exact same order: (1) test app, (2) QuickTime, (3) Timer, and finally (4) Quartz Debug.

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After clean restarts, only these tiny apps plus the вЂњtest appвЂќ are running.

And we record the whole thing in QuickTime. We test using the Timer app (a digital stopwatch with 1/10 a second indicator) and the Apple Developers tool, Quartz Debug, which includes a Frames Per Second (FPS) meter. These files are used during our product reviews to look at performance from version to version. Typically Architosh does real-world performance tests with a series of files we have accumulated or built over a decade and a half. As a further point of reference, my Touch-bar, 2016 MacBook Pro with 2.6GHz Intel i7 received a score of 85.8, about 22 percent slower than the iMac Pro. Apple has highly prioritized web browser performance, as can be seen in even the iPhone 12 Pro (A14 chip), obtaining a 202.2 score (based on score). The M1 is also 55 percent faster than the AMD Ryzen 9-5950X (based on an score). (seeВ emTechВ section below and comments by Tech Soft 3D)ДЄs we can see, the M1 Mac mini has blistering web performance, more than 2x the 2017 iMac Pro performance.

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This is important because more professional applications happen via browser-based SaaS tools. Now having that ARM-based architecture on the Mac platform brings superior web application performance to Apple Silicon-based Macs. (Image: Architosh / All rights reserved.)ДЄs noted here at, AppleвЂ™s CPUs in mobile have dominated in browser-benchmarks.

Speedometer 2.0 Test Winner: M1 Mac mini defeats everybody.