Scores found in the PugetBench for Premiere Pro online database

My method was to find the average of 10 results for each configuration. As Puget don’t tend to test Macs as they don’t sell them, I took the time to search the database myself and put together some results. It is so valuable because it is a standardized test, with each user putting their machine through exactly the same everyday tasks, like playback and export, with multiple codec types. Thankfully, we have an excellent resource in the publicly available database of PugetBench results – populated by Apple and PC users round the world every time they run the benchmark.

You can find a few head to head comparisons on YouTube which are interesting to watch, but coming from a scientific background, I’m much more interested in hard data. I thought I’d take a bit of time to look into this claim, focusing mainly on Adobe Premiere Pro as that is what I use most in the day to day.

If you watched the Apple launch event for the Mac Studio or saw some of the presentation slides, you’d certainly be forgiven for thinking that yes, the tiny little silver box is a PC killer, and quieter, smaller and more energy efficient to boot.

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