# New M1 Mac as Filemaker Server/Filemaker Development Station: which one?

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**Tags:** filemaker-server
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/new-m1-mac-as-filemaker-server-filemaker-development-station-which-one/2863 "2022-04-20T18:38:09Z")
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### Author: ![xochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/0ea827/32.png) [@xochi](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/xochi)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/new-m1-mac-as-filemaker-server-filemaker-development-station-which-one/2863/6 "2022-04-26T14:46:31Z")

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Several folks have done benchmarking tests suggesting the M1 macs are 2x to 3x as fast as the older Intel macs. See [Performance benchmarking FM18 Intel to FM19 on M1 - #15 by xochi](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/performance-benchmarking-fm18-intel-to-fm19-on-m1/2810/15)

Since the single-core performance for all the M1 chips is fairly similar, it's likely that spending the extra $ for M1 Pro or Max wouldn't help much.

As for RAM, I think you would want at a minimum 2x the size of your database, e.g. for a 4GB database file I would want no less than 8GB of RAM. I think 64 is overkill, but 16 or 32 would be sensible.

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