With Apple Silicon based computers, depending on the model, you will have a different number of hardware accelerators to encode and/or decode H.264, HEVC, ProRes and AV1. See the table below.
Comparison table (codecs hardware acceleration)
Apple M1
|
Video decode engines |
Video encode engines |
ProRes encode and decode engines |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 chip | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apple M1 Pro chip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Apple M1 Max chip | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Apple M1 Ultra chip | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Apple M2
|
Video decode engines |
Video encode engines |
ProRes encode and decode engines |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 chip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Apple M2 Pro chip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Apple M2 Max chip | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Apple M2 Ultra chip | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Apple M3
|
Video decode engines |
Video encode engines |
ProRes encode and decode engines |
AV1 decode |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple M3 chip | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Apple M3 Pro chip | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Apple M3 Max chip | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Note that as far as we can tell the Media engines and ProRes Accelerators have roughly the same kind of performances on M1, M2 or M3 chips.
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