![]() Where does that leave us? My takeaway based on preliminary testing is that the M1 Pro and M1 Max will show you a difference in performance, but only in select cases. Note that the Windows version of that test doesn't use Apple's Metal API, obviously. Falling between the Max and Pro was an older gaming laptop with an Nvidia RTX 2080 Max-Q. There, the M1 Max tied with a new Razer Blade 14 with the Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU. The same thing happened in Wildlife Extreme, the one benchmark within the larger 3D Mark tool that runs on M1 Macs, as well as Windows, iOS and other platforms. In the GeekBench 5 compute test using Metal, Apple's graphics API, there's a clear difference, with the M1 Max getting a much higher score. To target the GPU differences between the M1 Pro and M1 Max, I ran a few cross-platform GPU tests. He also told me that the M1 Max system felt much more responsive than the M1 Pro while using the software and he left the demo session ready to buy a fully upgraded M1 Max MacBook Pro. He rendered a scene in the 3D-design and animation software Houdini and found that the actual render time was the same on both the M1 Pro and M1 Max, but those were both much faster than the same workload on a MacBook with the regular M1. I spoke to fellow Brooklyn resident Joseph Ibrahim, who specializes in lighting VFX and invited him to try out the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip and the 16-inch M1 Pro with the M1 Max chip. All have different versions of the M1 chip. The MacBook Air, 13-inch Pro, 14-inch Pro and 16-inch Pro. That included the standard benchmarks we usually use as a first pass on judging a computer's capabilities, including GeekBench 5, Cinebench R23 and a quick 8K Premiere rendering test I threw together.īut after a couple of additional weeks, I've been able to use these products more, talk to a few pro-level creators and try some different tests. As a mainstream user, who dabbles in video editing, 3D modeling and Photoshop/Illustrator projects, I was hard-pressed to find a performance difference during my initial first few days with these systems. Those won't necessarily result in double the performance delivered in real-world use, though."Īnd that was my initial experience. ![]() ![]() As my colleague Lori Grunin explained it: "The M1 Max and M1 Pro clearly differ in terms of peak performance, with the M1 Max doubling some important contributors to theoretical performance, notably the number of hardware ProRes accelerators (which is extremely important for pro video editing) and doubled bandwidth for some internal interfaces, like that between memory and the processor. □2021 Apple MacBook Pro (14-inch, Apple M1 Pro chip with 8core CPU and 14core GPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) – Space GrayĠ:00 – PugetBench, Cinebench, Blackmagic & Geekbench 5ġ:00 – PugetBench for After Effects on M1 PRO and MAXġ:50 – Blackmagic Disk and RAW Speed TestĢ:48 – GeekBench 5 Test on M1 Pro and MAXģ:13 – Cinebench Test on M! Pro and MAX. * Apple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine – 14‑inch MacBook Pro – Silver $4100 (Fully Loaded 14 inch version)((Right Side of Screen)) * Backlit Magic Keyboard with Touch ID – US English * Three Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI port, SDXC card slot, MagSafe 3 port * Apple M1 Pro with 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine – 14‑inch MacBook Pro – Space Grey $2599 (Base model 14 with $300 CPU+ GPU Upgrade)((Left Side of Screen)) Please subscribe for more M1 videos, thanks everyone!! We also tried out the Blackmagic Disk and RAW Speed Tests, Geekbench 5, and Cinebench to round it off. Got a request for stress tests and a PugetBench test (links below) that got us on another speed mission.
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