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With macOS Big Sur landing today and Apple Silicon Macs reaching customers on November 17, it’s amazing to see developers release updates to offer support for both. And of course that means impressive performance gains with the first Mac M1s. Affinity is available today with new versions of all its Mac applications to take advantage of the latest Apple software and hardware.
Affinity announced the news today in a blog post that new versions of all its Mac applications are now available (Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher).
We are delighted to share that the 1.8.6 update for macOS versions of our apps is fully compatible with Apple’s latest macOS update, Big Sur, and is also optimized for M1, Apple’s new chip designed specifically for Mac.
When it comes to the Affinity workflows that will benefit from Apple Silicon, the company says that “documents with thousands of layers of pixels, vector objects, and text” will make notable gains.
This is great news for our users because the architecture of the M1, particularly having a high-performance GPU with memory unified with the CPU, is perfect for professional creative applications. The benefits are particularly noticeable when working on documents with thousands of layers of pixels, vector objects, and text. Pixel layered edits are best handled on the GPU, while vector and text on the CPU, so when you have unified memory it allows for much faster handling of these complex documents.
Overall, Affinity is getting 3x faster performance with the Apple Silicon M1 chip in the MacBook Air and seeing improved responsiveness:
In short, M1 makes our applications run faster, smoother, and feel more responsive than ever before (we’ve already seen speed increases of over 3x faster on the new MacBook Air). It’s definitely a big step forward for the Mac, and we can’t wait to see the rest of the Mac range develop with Apple’s silicon in the future.
New Big Sur and Apple Silicon compatible versions of Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher are now available.
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