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[Whereisclearsky]

Hi,

 

I think about upgrading from normal M1 to M4 Pro.

Any M4 Pro PI users here?

 

I wonder what the performance is like.

[Jim Waters]

Consider asking the PI Forum too. 

[Marcelofig]

I upgraded my Mac mini M1 with 16GB RAM to the M4 Pro with 64GB RAM and it is totally worth it. It's at least twice as fast and if you hurry me, three times as fast.

 

The only thing is that while on the M1 I never noticed the fans, on the M4 they come on every time WBPP is doing its thing. It's nothing more than a soft murmur.

[Whereisclearsky]

I upgraded my Mac mini M1 with 16GB RAM to the M4 Pro with 64GB RAM and it is totally worth it. It's at least twice as fast and if you hurry me, three times as fast.

 

The only thing is that while on the M1 I never noticed the fans, on the M4 they come on every time WBPP is doing its thing. It's nothing more than a soft murmur.

I could hear the fans on M1 but not really loud and mostly while stacking in WBPP lots of frames.

[lstjpn]

I upgraded from an M1 Max , to a M2 Ultra and just recently and M3 Ultra, all Mac Studios. I found the performance upgrade from the M1 to the M2 to be quite good, and the M3 Ultra to be a vast improvement.  I did a couple of quick tests with a few stacks in WBPP, the M3 consistently beat the M2 by 30 to 40 percent, and 50percent plus compared to the M1.  I haven't run the M4, but I suspect the performance will be close to the M3.  Currently, Pixinsight is still running through Rosetta, but Juan said a native Silicon version of Pixinsight was coming sometime this year.  That should greatly improve performance on any of the M series chips.

 

Hope it helps.

[Whereisclearsky]

I upgraded from an M1 Max , to a M2 Ultra and just recently and M3 Ultra, all Mac Studios. I found the performance upgrade from the M1 to the M2 to be quite good, and the M3 Ultra to be a vast improvement.  I did a couple of quick tests with a few stacks in WBPP, the M3 consistently beat the M2 by 30 to 40 percent, and 50percent plus compared to the M1.  I haven't run the M4, but I suspect the performance will be close to the M3.  Currently, Pixinsight is still running through Rosetta, but Juan said a native Silicon version of Pixinsight was coming sometime this year.  That should greatly improve performance on any of the M series chips.

 

Hope it helps.

I just received new one today, will do some testing soon.

 

Got a good deal, brand new M4 Pro 14 core, 64GB Ram, 1TB SSD and 10GB ethernet for 1800£, so decided to go for it.

[Whereisclearsky]

Quick benchmark, a see quite a bit of difference in the results.

 

https://imgur.com/a/sIZPaUk

[airscottdenning]

I have an M4 Pro Mac mini with 64 GB of RAM. It runs PI quite well! 

 

It's especially impressive for interactive tasks (post-processing) and for the rcroman GPU-accelerated add-ons.

 

I also have a headless Ryzen 7950x linux box that is perhaps twice as fast for WBPP. 

 

Overall very happy with the M4 desktop, but I am mindful that the generic 2-year old linux box runs circles around it for WBPP.

[Whereisclearsky]

I have an M4 Pro Mac mini with 64 GB of RAM. It runs PI quite well! 

 

It's especially impressive for interactive tasks (post-processing) and for the rcroman GPU-accelerated add-ons.

 

I also have a headless Ryzen 7950x linux box that is perhaps twice as fast for WBPP. 

 

Overall very happy with the M4 desktop, but I am mindful that the generic 2-year old linux box runs circles around it for WBPP.

Sadly it runs through an emulator on Macs, for now.

Although at least rc-astro plugins are fastest on Macs.

[airscottdenning]

Sadly it runs through an emulator on Macs, for now.

Although at least rc-astro plugins are fastest on Macs.

Even with the emulation, it's quite fast.

 

I like that I can run WBPP on two datasets at a time, one on the Mac and one on the faster linux box. 

 

And for postprocessing, it's just great.

[Whereisclearsky]

Just ran a first stack, didn't expect this Mac to be this loud at full CPU usage! lol