Adobe claims that the latest version of Photoshop, released on Wednesday, could run 50% faster on the Apple M1-equipped MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.The first benchmark tests—including. The team has been hard at work building Adobe Substance 3D Stager – which is an evolution on the concept of Dimension as a professional grade staging application with new depth and workflow possibilities. At the moment neither Dimension nor Stager run on Apple Silicon M1 devices.

Adobe has announced the June Creative Cloud update which brings new native apps with support for M1 silicon-based Macs.

Currently, non-native apps run through Rosetta 2 which emulates the x86 code. The update brings native support for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Premiere Pro, Lightroom & Lightroom Classic.

Premiere Pro support is currently in beta and will be available soon.

Adobe is claiming over 80% faster performance compared to Intel-based Macs.

• Marked improvements for import, playback and exports
o XAVC S 4K footage imports 187% faster
o Encoding to ProRes 422 was 129% faster
• Faster overall response times and performance
o Launch time 50% faster
o Saving projects 168% faster
• Next-level performance gains for optimized Sensei AI features for the Apple Neural Engine
o Scene Edit Detection 430% faster
• Improved efficiency and significantly longer battery life

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Pfeiffer Benchmark Report

Adobe commissioned Pfeiffer Consulting to run an independent benchmarking test comparing the Intel-based Macs to the new M1 SOC and the results are quite impressive.

Pfeiffer compared a 13″ MacBook Pro equipped with an Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM & 2TO of SSD to the 13″ M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM & 2TO of SSD.

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Let’s take a closer look at the video editing performance.

Importing Footage was almost three times faster

Encoding Video (XAVC S 4K 25p to ProRes 422) was over two times faster.

The M1-based Mac also had no issue playing back footage without dropping frames.

What are your thoughts on the new M1-based Macs? are you planning to upgrade once new pro models are released?