Alternatively, you could wait for the high-end Apple Silicon based machines. If you are considering the high-end Mac Pro in the quest for ultimate performance, then we would suggest that you also look at the Windows platform as there is a larger choice of high-end CPU’s and dedicated GPU solutions for the professional CAD and 3D modelling market. These have a base configuration of 16GB Unified Memory which you may wish to increase to 32GB if you create large or complicated models.

The ‘sweet spot’ for the current Apple hardware and Rhino are the 14” and 16” MacBook Pros. The table below summarises the suitability of the current Apple Mac range available from Apple in the UK as at : ModelĬonsider upgrading Unified Memory to 32GB* if you create large datasets

It is hoped that Rhino v8 will be compliant with Metal. Rhino, like most CAD and modelling software, relies heavily on OpenGL for these tasks and Apple has eschewed this technology in favour of its own pipeline called ‘Metal’. Where you may see performance gains with Windows over Apple machines in Rhino v7 is with the display pipeline.

Using Rosetta is essentially a ‘stop-gap’ until Rhino can be made to work natively on Apple Silicon, and this is unlikely to happen before Rhino 8.Īlthough not a native application, Rhino users and McNeel themselves report that Rhino runs well on the M1 processor, and the performance is better than the similarly specified Intel processors. Apple’s Rosetta translation environment attempts to automatically translate Intel applications to run on Apple Silicon. Please note that this implementation is not native but uses Apple’s Rosetta 2. Rhino 7 for Mac is supported on Apple Silicon Macs with M1 processors running macOS Big Sur 11.3 onwards. We strongly recommend choosing a suitable M1 based machine unless you have other compelling reasons to go the Intel route. There are still some products in the Apple range that are powered by Intel processors namely the 27” iMacs and the Mac Pro – these are however due for replacement in the not-too-distant future. Going forward all new Apple Mac laptops and desktops will be built on versions of Apple Silicon rather than using Intel technology. At present these new processors are all variations of the ‘M1’ CPU. Apple is gradually replacing its hardware with machines powered by ‘Apple Silicon’ processors.

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