Perfomance differences puzzling me
I work in HD video all the time. At work, I am using a MacPro with these specs:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.93 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 24 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 6.4 GT/s
OS 10.6.8
Running a 6Tb RAID (2 Tb drives each for Work, Scratch, and Root).
At home, I use a Macbook Pro, October 2011 model, dual core 2.2 gHz i7 processor with 16GB of RAM, editing from a 7200rom Lacie external drive (
the orange rubber cover kind) - OS 10.7.4
Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 editing 1080p HD video, the perfromance difference is huge between these machines, and it's the laptop that runs rings around the Mac Pro. My IT guy doesn't believe this is possible. But everything from moving clips around the timeline to rendering effects to previewing unrendered effects to exporting the final video through Media Encoder, by laptop smokes this "beast." (Example, I just rendered out a 720p, 5Mb/s, 4 minute long mp4 from Premiere on my work machine and it took about 10 minutes - resulting file about 150 mb. Last night, I rendered out a full res, 1080p, Pro Res (HQ) uncompressed 7 minute long mov file, resulting in a 8.5 GB file in about 12 minutes).
Is the i7 just that much more capable than the Mac Pro? Or could the be something off about the desktop?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)