Author Topic: Corona for Apple Silicon M1?  (Read 36695 times)

2021-11-03, 09:11:12
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balatschaka

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„In the meantime, it is possible to use M1 with Corona via Rosetta.“

Do you or someone else know how the performance and the stability of corona run through Rosetta is? I need a Notebook for homeoffice and the 14‘ MacBook Pro would be perfect except Corona isn’t natively supported yet.

https://corona-renderer.com/benchmark/results/cpu/apple

2021-11-04, 10:32:20
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I have it working on my macbook air m1. Its ok, crashes now and I think because the 16Gb is too limited. I would suggest to get as much ram as you can and that applies to any system really.

I am hoping Corona Render will have a native apple silicon version ready as soon as possible. Its one of the very few great render plugins available for the mac.

2021-11-04, 14:46:47
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rafaz

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„In the meantime, it is possible to use M1 with Corona via Rosetta.“

Do you or someone else know how the performance and the stability of corona run through Rosetta is? I need a Notebook for homeoffice and the 14‘ MacBook Pro would be perfect except Corona isn’t natively supported yet.

https://corona-renderer.com/benchmark/results/cpu/apple

I'm using on mac mini m1 8gb ram.... I guess it would depend on how complex is your scene, for my type of work it runs ok ( Not great). I'm following the roadmap and I see the next step is to release a daily build for m1 and hopefully it will have a better memory management.

2021-11-10, 09:47:35
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rojharris

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Just to chime in here, I've been using an M1 Mini 16GB with Corona since May without any issues. I still team render big jobs to my old PC purely because it's faster (Threadripper) but tbh I rarely turn it on these days. Corona is stable and pretty fast on M1 under Rosetta. The only crashes I get are when messing with cloners or SurfaceSpread or MultiCloner.. For some reason any tweak of clones with the IPR running will crash it. I"m pretty sure it's just a memory issue.
I REALLY hope there's an M1 native version coming.
I've ordered a 64GB M1 Max Mac Pro so when it turns up later this month I'll report back on how Corona runs with all that extra RAM.

I'm using Cinema R20 by the way. Can't see any reason to upgrade until Corona goes Native M1. :-)

2021-11-10, 10:56:31
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Philw

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I've got a M1 Max ordered too. The native M1 is in the dev Trello for v8 at some point - currently marked as some internal testing done. So looking forward to silent scene building. Similar to you my Threadripper is great for Corona but I'm a Mac boy (man) at heart.

2021-11-11, 19:11:56
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rafaz

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I keep checking the forum everyday for a possible daily release :(

2021-11-12, 09:33:29
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rojharris

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I keep checking the forum everyday for a possible daily release :(
Ha Ha! Me too! :-)

2021-11-12, 09:34:18
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Learn how to report bugs for Corona in C4D here.

2021-11-13, 22:53:10
Reply #23

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Works rather well. Got the daily 8 updated for apple silicon.
Attached scene rendered for seven hours without crashing.
Used about 5Gb ram without swapping memory.
Computing GI takes a little long but preparing is almost instant. After About 2 or 3 min I got to sl 3. 3600x2400.
Interactive Preview was too slow with this scene even at 800x600. Which is a rather large scene for IP anyhow.

MacBook Air M1 16Gb.
Don't think the M1 max will be much faster with this scene other than it has 2 cores more.
« Last Edit: 2021-11-13, 22:58:08 by frv »

2021-11-14, 18:40:13
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jojorender

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Hi frv,
thanks for sharing.
Did you render the same scene on an intel Mac too?
The ray total# seems very low for this kind of scene. Doesn’t look like the mats are overly complex, and the rays/sample look normal.
Would be interested to see a Intel Mac comparison of this scene, if possible.

Maybe it's time to update the corona benchmark tool.
The M1 max in the result list shows similar rays/s that a i7-8700K got in 2018.
Not sure if this is a real comparison if the benchmark runs in rosetta.

2021-11-15, 11:43:30
Reply #25

frv

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Hi Jojorender
I did not test it any further on my Intel iMac quad core i7.
Coronarender is a cpu renderer so I am not expecting all that much difference with my iMac. I am also not expecting much difference with the new m1 max since they are only 10 core.

The scene I tested it with is a scene with just 3 laubwerk trees scattered with mograph and a random effector. But still I did not expect such a smooth performance on a small laptop without cooling. Even though it run CR all night. I was hoping the process before render was a little faster expecting more feedback in the design process. Maybe redshift is better for that being a gpu renderer. I don't know anybody here who has redshift and coronarender to compare. What was very fast on my m1 macbook air is changing LUT's. That is instant, scrolling the various LUT's. On my iMac its very slow in a way I never looked at all the different LUT's before.

Cheers Francois
« Last Edit: 2021-11-15, 11:48:31 by frv »

2021-11-18, 00:30:39
Reply #26

BigAl3D

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I had previously tested a first-gen Mac Mini M1 16 GB and it was significantly faster than my Mac Pro Trashcan, which is significantly faster than our i7 iMacs. This is also running Team Render client and Corona via Rosetta2. I think testing your scene on your old iMac would be eye-opening.

2021-11-27, 00:12:49
Reply #27

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Depends on the ram usage. My iMac from late 2015 had 32 Gb of ram and uses 4 cores and 8 threads. I can render really big models swapping 30Gb of ram memory. The m1 16Gb runs out of ram quickly and when its swapping memory its falls back on its 4 cores and leaves the efficiency cores out of the render process.

2021-11-27, 03:20:31
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I can let you know on Tuesday. Mine was supposed to arrive yesterday… Hopi g for significant improvements from my current off the shelf  2018 MBP
C4D 2023 / Corona 9 / Mac 12.6

2021-12-15, 19:14:20
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Here some fresh results just for rough compare speeds... the oldie run C4DR23 and corona V7.0. Other machines both R25 and V8 daily.

« Last Edit: 2021-12-15, 22:33:22 by Rutg3r »