Same with an 8GB Mac - under a heavy load, compared to 16GB RAM, the 8GB M1 Mac uses more CPU to compress/decompress RAM, and more SSD space and I/O to swap RAM to VM, so there is a price. It’s like a basketball player who is able to play through pain, still able to score 30 points instead of their normal 32 - but eventually it will catch up with them. That does not mean everything is OK, because what’s actually happening is the Apple Silicon Mac is faster at using compressed RAM and SSD virtual memory to compensate for not having enough real RAM. What tests have indicated is that if you run the same task on an 8GB RAM Apple Silicon Mac, it may benchmark almost as well as on a 16GB RAM Apple Silicon Mac. Like, everybody knows you can’t get away with just 8GB and enjoy doing that particular workload. Suppose you have a task that, for many years, would not perform well on an 8GB RAM Intel Mac or PC. ![]() In general, compared to Intel processors, Apple Silicon appears to perform better on minimal RAM. ![]() One about the Apple Silicon Macs in general, and another about Lightroom Classic in particular.
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