Does TD benefice from a 32 core GPU rather than a 16 core GPU on Apple Macbook Pro M1?

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Hi,

I am an art student who wants to work with digital creations. I am upgrading from my 2017 Macbook Air to a more performing portable(!) laptop. The objective is to run Ableton, Rekordbox and Touchdesigner at once with multiple projects open. While still considering to make the switch to windows, I like the Mac os workflow on Ableton and consider the Macbook pro with M1 Pro or Max chip.

Now my question; is the M1 pro chip with 10 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores and 200GB/S bandwidth enough or should I go with the M1 MAX with 10 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores and 400GB/S bandwidth.

If I understand well TD doesn’t take use of multiple GPU’s right?

Would 16GB of unified memory be enough or do I future proof myself with 32GB of RAM.

If someone could help me with this difficult and expensive decision it would help me a lot!

Always open to Windows laptop options as well, under the conditions that it is portable( <16 inch) and doesn’t lose performance while running on battery.

Thank you, fellow creators

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The M1 is one gpu, multiple cores. TD will utilise the resources available.
If you want to run ableton, rekordbox and td at the same time I would recommend the high ram version. It might be fine but your use case is unique enough that the ram could be useful.

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thank you,
I got the Macbook pro M1 MAX with 32core CPU and 32gb of Ram on Apple refurbished. Works amazing and so far not a single frame drop with some audio reactive rendering.