

This also changes the older “Enhance Details” command to become “Enhance” and the previous “Enhance Details” is now called “Raw Details” inside of this panel. This now allows you to upscale your images at a high quality from within Lightroom. Lightroom now includes “Super Resolution” - the AI based upscaling solution that made quite a splash in the most recent version of Photoshop and Camera RAW. We apologize for any inconvenience.One thing I did notice was that when importing a lot of images on the older rosetta version, it would sometimes set the fans going on my MacBook Pro, but this doesn’t seem to happen (at least not as much) on the current Apple silicon version.

Hopefully, we will see that in the next generation of iMacs.Įditor’s update: The original publication did not state the exact specification of the Intel Macbook used in the benchmarking. The real speed tests for what Apple can do with its own silicon will come when they can devote the chip fully to power. So while there are some speed improvements on the M1 Macbook Pro when compared to emulation, most will find the biggest benefits in how efficiently the Macbook Pro with M1 runs Lightroom. Meanwhile, the M1 MacBook Pro was whisper quiet the entire time.

Even a 20-second import could get the fans going. Not only were the export and import times relatively comparable despite the Intel model having twice the RAM as the M1 model, the Intel MacBook Pro had its fans on full blast during every export run. There does seem to be a slight speed bump with some longer export tasks, but the most noticeable improvements are in the overall usability of the app: it runs smoother and is even lighter on the CPU, so the fans simply never have to turn on.Ĭomparing it to the Intel version running on an Intel Mac, it’s just so abundantly clear that the M1 chip is superior. Yes, native M1 Lightroom is faster, but it’s not by a hugely appreciable amount in most cases. Below are all three results compared against one another with the ARM Mac at the top in red, the emulated version in orange, and the Intel version in yellow:Ĭomparing the ARM-optimized version to the Intel version running via emulation, we didn’t see any big performance improvements in our standard import/export benchmarks.
