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Extreme RAM consumption on M1 MacBook Pro

Phrank
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Recently I have purchased a MacBook Pro 14 with 1TB SSD and 16MB RAM, but it seems like this is not enough. Capture One 22 is super super RAW hungry. Just to merge a catalog with 120.000 photos into another master bigger catalog takes more than a day and uses another 16MB swap RAM – is this normal?

I wish i had invested in more RAM even 16, or 32MB is not enough…

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  • C-M-B

    That depends on a few things: Preview resolution, how many images you're working on, how many background applications you have running, whether you're using the laptop display or another display in addition to that - keep in mind that the Liquid Retina XDR display by itself uses a lof of VRAM!

    Generally speaking I would not (!) recommend anyone get an M1 with 16GB RAM due to the fact that RAM is shared by both the GPU and CPU.

    The recommended system requirements for CaptureOne are 16GB RAM (or more) AND a GPU with 8GB RAM (or more).

    However: OSX is quite efficient with its use of SWAP files especially on M1 chips and with recent updates - and unless you feel like it's very slow you might not even notice the difference between 16GB and 32GB RAM.

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  • Phrank

    Hi C-M-B, thanks for your answer.

    Yes I know what influenced the power. I’m just a very frustrated about the performance after all the hype of Capture One 22 on M1 Mac in 2022. Capture One should rather mention to have minimum 32GB – that's what it uses normally on my base MBP 14" at normal workflow.

    Beside of this I have to use the not beloved Lightroom again to have a working Digital Asset Management which can handle my almost 1 million images without the rainbow ball of death. I wonder if this will be improved any soon in Capture One 22/23/24… 

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  • C-M-B

    I understand your frustration - but I don't think CaptureOne is to blame.

    After all it would run even faster on the Max version and you would expect that to be the case. The more RAM and power, the faster it should run, the same goes for every system and component. 

    I've personally worked with a 16" M1 Pro with 16GB RAM for a few days, shooting tethered, editing and exporting images while unplugged. Worked perfectly fine but the system hat to resort wo writing SWAP files a lot - and it wasn't slow at all!
    But due tot the SWAP file usage I returned the 16GB version and ordered a 32GB version - though I'm sure I could have worked with the 16GB version as well, albeit with fewer stuff running in the background (e.g. Photoshop/Safari/Mail/Pages,...). 

     

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