Apple 's M1 comes out firmly on top of both the quad-core/octa-thread i7-1185G7 and octa-core/octa-thread Ryzen 7 4700U in unlimited multicore testing. . H. A daughter of the late Milton and Phyllis. I don’t think a new handbrake update has applied, but I used to be able encode using the hardware encode blocks in M1 mac at incredible speed, around 700 fps. The M1 Pro is a beast for 7-Zip compression, using the native Apple Silicon version compared to the same benchmark on Windows. As such every Gen2 x4 SSD will only be able to establish a Gen2 x2 connection halfing its sequential transfer speeds as well as harming random I/O.