Need advice for M1

[azaire1180]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are doing very well?

I have a question for M1 Pro users.

I had an Imac24 M1 but to stream my playstation, I had some problems if I wanted 900p or 1080p quality.

I stream Counter strike in 720p or other games on my mac.

my question is, i have the opportunity to buy the new macbookpro M1 pro in super promotion.

there are several models, should I settle for 16 GB ram and the basic GPU and CPU?

or should I switch to 32 GB for multitasking (an old game + stream)

or a better gpu and cpu to help encoding?

macbook pro: 8 CPUs/ 14 GPUs or more?

16 or 32 gb ram?

my old imac was: 8CPU / 8 GPU with 16gb ram.

it happens to me from time to time to play WOW.

And last question, concerning the 264 encoder or ...? I did several tests... which one do you use and why?

thank you for your advises.

 

[azaire1180]

a little help?

 

[thomaslfessler]

From my experience - 32GB or RAM and add as many GPU cores as you can.
I use the x264 encoder as the apple hardware encoder uses up too much of my GPU and impacts frame rendering speed.

 

[azaire1180]

hello, thanks for replying, so x264 encoder with 32g ram is better than hardware encoder?

thank you