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Puget Bench for DaVinci Resolve

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Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores)
Overall Score (Basic) 7399.25 8653.62
Overall Score (Standard) 6487.19 7160.75
Overall Score (Extended) 5393.33 5922.83
LongGOP Score (Standard) | LongGOP 122.41 112.01
Intraframe Score (Standard) | Intraframe 55.07 80.51
RAW Score (Standard) | RAW 59.76 67.52
GPU Effects Score (Standard) | GPU Effects 39.54 34.74
Fusion Score (Standard) | Fusion 70.92 91.29
LongGOP Score (Extended) | LongGOP 114 96.6
Intraframe Score (Extended) | Intraframe 54.3 78.86
RAW Score (Extended) | RAW 46.9 51.12
GPU Effects Score (Extended) | GPU Effects 40.43 35.55
Fusion Score (Extended) | Fusion 74.2 98.08
AI Score (Extended) | AI 28.4 31.74
Encoding – H.264 50Mbps 8-bit UHD | LongGOP 82.32 fps 57.46 fps
Encoding – HEVC 50Mbps 8-bit UHD | LongGOP 91.64 fps 57.93 fps
Encoding – DNxHR LB UHD | Intraframe 108.4 fps 164.65 fps
Encoding – DNxHR SQ UHD | Intraframe 114.87 fps 173.02 fps
Processing – 4K H.264 150Mbps 420 8-bit | LongGOP 253.39 fps 308.24 fps
Processing – 4K HEVC 100Mbps 422 10-bit | LongGOP 225.97 fps 283.12 fps
Processing – 4K ProRes 422 | Intraframe 255.84 fps 325.66 fps
Processing – 4K DNxHR LB | Intraframe 145.13 fps 213.4 fps
Processing – 4K DNxHR SQ | Intraframe 133.53 fps 207.3 fps
Processing – 4K RED | RAW 33.46 fps 51.24 fps
GPU Effects – Temporal NR (2 Frames Better) x3 | GPU Effects 6.26 fps 4.26 fps
GPU Effects – Temporal NR (2 Frames Better) | GPU Effects 20.77 fps 14.83 fps
GPU Effects – Film Grain | GPU Effects 14.51 fps 16.69 fps
GPU Effects – Spatial NR (Better) | GPU Effects 17.95 fps 19.92 fps
GPU Effects – Lens Blur x5 | GPU Effects 7.3 fps 6.11 fps
GPU Effects – Lens Flare | GPU Effects 40.23 fps 32.47 fps
GPU Effects – Optical Flow (50% Enhanced Better) | GPU Effects 15.67 fps 15.31 fps
GPU Effects – Sharpen x3 | GPU Effects 10.3 fps 7.19 fps
GPU Effects – Color Node x30 | GPU Effects 80.26 fps 99.35 fps
Fusion – 3D Lower 3rd | Fusion 75.95 fps 94.68 fps
Fusion – 3D Title | Fusion 29.21 fps 40.29 fps
Fusion – Digital Glitch | Fusion 9.91 fps 12.22 fps
Fusion – Phone Composite UHD | Fusion 40.28 fps 37.61 fps
Fusion – Turbulant Particles | Fusion 8.95 fps 11.67 fps
Processing – 4K ProRes 422 Proxy | Intraframe 255.93 fps 347.62 fps
Fusion – 3D Backlit Text | Fusion 9.83 fps 14.96 fps
Processing – 4.6K BRAW | RAW 125 fps 114.2 fps
Encoding – HEVC 60Mbps 10-bit UHD | LongGOP 92.99 fps 58.78 fps
Encoding – DNxHR HQX UHD | Intraframe 96.07 fps 149.1 fps
Processing – 8K HEVC 100Mbps 420 8-bit | LongGOP 156.44 fps 130.74 fps
Processing – 4K Cinema RAW Light ST | RAW 65.24 fps 73.78 fps
Processing – 4K ARRIRAW | RAW 78.41 fps 76.46 fps
Processing – 5K Sony X-OCN | RAW 64.13 fps 50.52 fps
Processing – 8K RED | RAW 12.74 fps 16.96 fps
AI – Super Scale (2x Medium) | AI 16.86 fps 12.12 fps
AI – Face Refinement | AI 13.84 fps 11.12 fps
AI – Person Mask (Faster) | AI 12.78 fps 11.62 fps
AI – Person Mask (Better) | AI 4.37 fps 4.25 fps
AI – Depth Map (Faster) | AI 40.52 fps 44.04 fps
AI – Depth Map (Better) | AI 10.48 fps 9.87 fps
AI – Relight | AI 3.09 fps 2.4 fps
AI – Optical Flow (50% Speed Warp) | AI 1.58 fps 2.15 fps
AI RunTime – Audio Transcription | AI 8.52 x-realtime 12.96 x-realtime
AI RunTime – Video Stabilization | AI 212.26 fps 311.28 fps
AI RunTime – Smart Reframe | AI 256.55 fps 299.36 fps
AI RunTime – Magic Mask Tracking (Faster) | AI 10.28 fps 14.27 fps
AI RunTime – Magic Mask Tracking (Better) | AI 7.27 fps 9.9 fps
AI RunTime – Create Subtitles from Audio | AI 14.9 x-realtime 24 x-realtime
AI RunTime – Scene Cut Detection | AI 471.41 fps 826.28 fps

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Recent Uploads with Apple M1 Max(32 Cores)

Date CPU GPU RAM OS Overall Score (Standard) Overall Score (Basic) Overall Score (Extended)
2026-02-21 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 26 6309.00 7122.00
2026-02-08 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 6655.00 7574.00 5443.00
2026-01-23 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 32GB macOS 26 6428.00 7236.00 5378.00
2026-01-23 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 26 6241.00 7250.00
2026-01-14 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 6533.00 7641.00 5359.00
2026-01-08 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 26 7503.00
2026-01-06 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 32GB macOS 26 7569.00
2025-11-20 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 14 5694.00 6472.00
2025-11-20 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 26 6419.00 7287.00
2025-11-16 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 32GB macOS 26 7585.00
2025-11-11 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 32GB macOS 26 6354.00 7311.00
2025-11-07 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 14 6848.00 7716.00
2025-10-21 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 26 6710.00 7383.00
2025-10-06 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 32GB macOS 26 7163.00
2025-10-03 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 3988.00 5288.00
2025-07-31 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 6873.00 7760.00
2025-07-31 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 6490.00 7295.00
2025-07-08 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 6816.00 7776.00
2025-06-30 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 15 6271.00 7429.00
2025-06-10 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 32GB macOS 15 6503.00 7512.00
2025-06-09 Apple M1 Max (10 Cores) Apple M1 Max(32 Cores) 64GB macOS 14 6651.00 7401.00

Recent Uploads with Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores)

Date CPU GPU RAM OS Overall Score (Basic) Overall Score (Standard) Overall Score (Extended)
2026-01-28 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 8613.00
2026-01-24 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 9073.00 7363.00
2026-01-24 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 8615.00 7071.00
2026-01-13 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8844.00 7249.00 5928.00
2026-01-04 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8852.00 7262.00 5880.00
2025-12-26 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8903.00 7308.00 5945.00
2025-12-21 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8883.00 7291.00 5954.00
2025-12-21 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8896.00 7278.00 5909.00
2025-12-20 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 8582.00 7231.00
2025-12-20 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 8760.00
2025-12-16 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8723.00 7145.00 5727.00
2025-12-12 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8646.00 7295.00 5792.00
2025-12-12 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8853.00 7391.00 5725.00
2025-12-12 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8666.00 7224.00
2025-12-12 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8685.00 7262.00
2025-12-04 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 9371.00 7568.00 6193.00
2025-12-04 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 9266.00 7921.00 6032.00
2025-12-04 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 9229.00 7719.00 6104.00
2025-12-04 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 9062.00 7546.00 5885.00
2025-12-04 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 9122.00
2025-11-30 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 9024.00 7501.00
2025-11-23 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8824.00
2025-11-21 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8299.00
2025-10-24 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 4828.00 4100.00
2025-10-23 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 48GB macOS 26 8966.00 7272.00
2025-10-14 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 7741.00 6413.00
2025-10-10 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 8912.00 7248.00
2025-09-22 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8662.00
2025-09-22 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8251.00
2025-08-27 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 9243.00
2025-08-27 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8793.00
2025-08-19 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8796.00
2025-08-19 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8594.00
2025-08-09 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8831.00 7381.00
2025-08-06 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 7585.00 6616.00
2025-08-05 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 7472.00 6439.00
2025-08-01 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8564.00
2025-07-20 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8743.00
2025-07-16 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 26 8366.00
2025-06-11 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8366.00 7088.00
2025-06-06 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 7879.00 6331.00
2025-06-06 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 7881.00 6332.00
2025-06-06 Apple M4 Pro (12 Cores) Apple M4 Pro(16 Cores) 24GB macOS 15 8016.00 6756.00

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