My wife, who edits videos for a living, had no issues working directly from an external NVME drive with her M1 MacBook Pro. which had real-world speeds somewhere between 1000 and 2000 MB/s ...

1 Up to 2720MB/s sequential read/write (max) performance based on testing a 1.0TB OWC Aura Pro NT installed in a 13-Inch MacBook Pro (Mid-2017) running AJA System Test (4K -Full resolution, 64GB ...