I was going to buy a MAC again after ten years of using windows thanks to the M4 chip… When i saw the presentation of fremework desktop I couldn’t do it… so I pre-ordered it instead. Is it a powerful enough for After effects, Premiere and Blender? I suppose with 120w its going to score better than the Strix Halo laptops (70-80w).
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Well…
it’s not going to beat an R7 9950X with a 7900XTX or 4090 in processing power…
but the benchmarks for the Radeon 8060S is about on par with a RTX 2060 Super and about 20% slower than a Radeon 6700 XT.
with a 50% higher TDP compared to the laptop solutions implementing the chips i’d expect a roughly proportional increase in performance.
So, yes it’ll do those things just fine compared to a laptop doing the same tasks, but a dedicated full workstation could still beat it, which is to be expected really…
well, it depends. What mac are you comparing against?
and what would your budget be (so I can compare to a PC)
No I get it I have a workstation at work it’s for experimenting and learning a home… and for my daughter to do some gaming I think it will do fine.
Thanks for replying.
I’m getting the 395+ with 128gram will it be slower than Mac mini M4 pro with 64gram?
Impossible to say for sure. the Desktop’s not out yet and benchmarks between Windows/Linux PCs and Mac is very much “It depends”
some apps behave significantly better on Windows than Mac, and the reverse is true on a case by case basis.
That being said…
the geekbench scores for the Mac Mini M4 show 3826 Single-Core / 22340 Multi-Core / 69667 OpenCL GPU [1]
and i was able to find this laptop that has posted a geekbench score with the same chip that the Framework will have…
The ASUS ROG Flow Z13 posts geekbench scores of 2960 Single-Core / 21488 Multi-Core / No listed GPU score [2]
Given the TDP differences between the laptop and the desktop the benchmarks imply a “within spitting distance” placement when comparing the desktop and the Mac.
[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-2024-14c-cpu
[2] ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA_GZ302EA - Geekbench
That’s what I thought, Stix halo running on desktop and 128gram it will be very close. 
in terms of raw performance, yes.
maybe not in terms of media encoders, but the sheer amount of RAM on the framework should make it a much better choice for this.
Real world applications it looks very strong even at 70w especially with RAM allocation…
