Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “We test the Mac Studio in the “Real World””.
During the apple studio and m1, ultra unveiling back in march, apple featured a selection of professional applications to demonstrate just how far the new soc is one app from the keynote that caught my eye was clo 3d. It’S a 3d clothing simulator that fashion designers can use to prototype their designs without ever cutting a piece of fabric. It’S the perfect app to try the fashion industry has always loved the mac and a 3d workflow like this will push all those 64 new gpu cores hard right well to find out. I lent a mac studio to a fashion designer who, if you can believe it switched to pc, let’s see if we can win him back. This is matthew, lu, he’s a fashion designer here at the creator.
Warehouse actually designing many of the clothes and accessories found on lttstore.com right now, though, he’s planning on submitting an entry to the 3d creative design, competition, which is being hosted by clo3d uh, so every year, uh cloth3d. Does this 3d design contest yeah? I always wanted to sign up for this contest every year, but i’m always forget about it and i missed the deadline, but luckily this year i remember it and i was able to register for that, though bilingual. When it comes to computers, he has switched to using his pc full time. So you got a pretty powerful computer um. What specs do you got so here i have the ryzen 9 3950x 16 core processor, with a 16gb ram and rtx 3060 ti. I do love how you have an apple look. Yeah cause, you know still apple by heart. Look what i have your computer might be small, but this is even smaller price wise. It costs about the same as a base m1 max max studio at around two thousand dollars, but i switched to pc mostly because i wanted to use cloth 3d more, but it runs very slow on mac os. I’Ve always had a gaming pc that i use for gaming, but then i upgraded that just so i can use khloe when i was in school well, we can’t have that.
So what we’re going to do is give him a mac studio with all the bells and whistles to see if it’s good enough with chloe 3d to switch him back to mac. This is the dream excited yeah. I’M excited. I’M really excited to see how this goes for you, so i guess we’ll report back in a little bit.
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To summarize, it’s very difficult: i never expected to see fashion designers using 3d software to design their clothing. It’S pretty neat, but how useful is it? Basically, it’s a fabric simulator. You can quickly simulate your clothing on an avatar and then make changes based on that filling.
A project would usually take hours days being able to use the software to adjust your designs, make sure it works. We actually start producing the real one like it, cuts out issues and troubles down line so that you can kind of build ideas quicker. So my first day i set up the computer.
I installed all the software that i need. I start with a kind of like a template of how i want the fit to kind of look like i do all that i simulate it looks good then that’s when i start adding the actual like weaving detail, um, that’s where it starts getting a little tricky On the mac studio because things start to slow down – and it was very hard to kind of leave pieces together without the frame rates dropping too low [ Applause ]. So i tried it on my pc and then it ran like so much faster like the fps um increased like dramatically so cloud has you can simulate with cpu or gpu yeah and on the pc being able to simulate with the gpu makes certain processes kind of, Like more efficient that i couldn’t do on the mac, so it turns out that despite natively supporting apple silicon, clo 3d hasn’t yet implemented.
Gpu acceleration on the mac, hey hello, how’s it going it’s going. What’S that doing over there! Well, i switched back to pc and oh man. This is a surprise.
It’S important for fashion designers like matthew, because they need the software to be responsive while it renders their developing designs. Matthew tells me that gpu acceleration is less accurate at simulating collisions, but that the speed it brings helps with quickly drafting up his complex ideas. I zoom in a lot like i’m like i’m like scrolling here and it’s like so this would be faster on a pc. Oh yeah for sure, which is why he switched did you feel bad switching back to pc, not really what definitely was very, not just not the same as using on the pc, so it definitely would slow me down.
I probably would have needed, like probably another week or two to to work on this project. I assume that when apple was promoting this program in their presentation, it was already ready to go and running smoothly on apple silicon fabric simulation is faster now, oh yeah, that i was like no way, but it turns out that at the time of the announcement, cloth3d Was still running on rosetta and it wasn’t updated until may and as we’ve seen still isn’t, taking advantage of the whole chip. So then, what about the other apps during that short clip apple, also featured ableton, live adobe after effects vectorworks cinema 4d in redshift and boris fx sapphire. It appears that adobe after effects was the only other app that wasn’t running natively yet with ableton just squeaking their 11.1 release out a month before and like khloe. You can’t expect everything to work.
There are numerous plugins in ableton that still run on rosetta. It’S crazy. How long this silicon tech has been out, and yet how far behind some of these plug-in developers actually are meaning much of the performance? The m1 ultra offers might still be left on the table, something that anthony discovered in his tests of the computer on ltt. So the the final kind of moments of getting the design done. What was that like uh, very stressful, because i changed my ideas a few times again, i end up staying until staying up until like 4am to like finish it and submit it early.
So there’s not any problems the next day in case there was any problems. After all this time i mean, there’s got to be something the mac does better than the pc right. Interactive render so like live render, did perform better on the mac os. So that’s way faster yeah. So when you were when it was two in the morning yeah and you had finished on that computer, you actually came to this computer to oh. No, i still wasn’t that one.
I was on time crunch, so i didn’t want to. But this would have helped you know. I didn’t know that before i don’t. I didn’t want to risk it because you know from my experience using the simulation before so here’s why it’s submitted.
So this would be like your the concept image. So this is my concept. How do you feel about the final design? It was like i’m happy with it like.
I don’t think i would have submitted. If i was unhappy with it, i don’t think i would have submitted it. Here’S the top and then the back.
No, no, i just noticed this, oh no, i shouldn’t have stayed up till 4am or i should submit the next day so that way, i’m not like like this morning, yeah. So what what what’s happened there. I think i just didn’t simulate that part to go over the under layer. It’S okay. What’S done is done. I can’t go back and change it, so this is where the simulation kind of make or break your well, because this is done with gpu simulation well, sometimes on gpu simulation, the fabric goes through itself versus cpu simulation, where it kind of can like it knows.
When there’s a fabric on top, so that means the mac would have helped here now to be fair to clo. They have never supported gpu acceleration on mac os because they use nvidia’s cuda api. So if, in a future release, they do bring metal gpu acceleration to the mac, that would be a big boon for mac, loving fashion designers, who use the platform bringing it to feature parody thanks for doing the test for us yeah.
Thanks for giving me this opportunity sounds like a job. It sounds like a job interview, [ Laughter, ], well, yeah yeah the opportunity to learn that it was worse. Yeah yeah, you saved me the trouble from buying one trying it myself were you wanting to do that? No okay! Well now i know i for sure won’t so like. Would you get an m1 max max studio if cloud3d had gpu acceleration? I would would rather have this in a laptop form like i wouldn’t buy a desktop mac. I hear the results are in.
Yes, how do you i don’t know? I don’t know what to expect really, because i haven’t seen all the people’s work, so i’m not too sure what to expect. I’M nervous for you, oh yeah same here. No, you don’t have to whisper it also. How do you feel about the contest like knowing the results? I don’t think i would have changed anything like and what i submitted.
I was happy with, so it turns out. We both lose it’s been over two years since apple announced their transition to arm, and in that time we’ve got very compelling and efficient computers that are fantastic for day-to-day use, but things haven’t been going quickly. I mean microsoft only just announced their apple silicon native version of the teams app, which they’re still going to be rolling out slowly, somehow, if you’re, a professional that doesn’t edit a video and you’re thinking about upgrading to an apple silicon mac check the system requirements of Your app of choice to see if it’s ready, because otherwise you might still want to wait thanks for disappointing this mac address, if you are not a professional and still interested in apple silicon mac, give this video a like, and if you are professional you might as Well subscribe because we’ll find out when it’s ready now in the comments, i’m curious, have you found a piece of software? That’S still been giving you trouble in this transition and what is it? .