Building Unreal Engine – 2019 16” MacBook Pro vs 2020 M1 MacBook Pro.


2019 16″ MacBook Pro (8-cores, 64GB RAM) – 17m:31s. 82% battery drain.

2020 13″ M1 MacBook Pro (8-cores, 16GB RAM) – 16m:12s. 5% battery drain.

Details:

  • Compiling Unreal Engine 4.26 Mac client
  • Xcode 12.2
  • Clang using x86_64 on the Intel Mac and arm64 on the M1 Mac.
https://youtu.be/CqIfHgHXcZo

(For reference, ambient noise was around 36 db)