In various tests on YouTube there’s no difference in performance on or off battery.
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M1 Pro vs. M1 Max: Real-World Performance Test
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Meh, my PowerPC 80Mhz chip can play 320x240 at 12fps
"The M1 Max ultimately did better with our Final Cut Pro testing because of the 32 GPU cores"
Worth mentioning that it's not just the 32 cores: the Max chip has other advantages relative to the Pro, including more encode/decode engines that should help with Final Cut Pro.
Worth mentioning that it's not just the 32 cores: the Max chip has other advantages relative to the Pro, including more encode/decode engines that should help with Final Cut Pro.
I'm thrilled thus far with the performance of my 10 core 14" M1 Pro. I've thrown a lot at it to get my Lightroom catalog migrated over and test edits in both LR and DxO PhotoLab (still Rosetta). I didn't think I'd notice the higher refresh rate but everything on the screen is insanely smooth and even Rosetta performance is impressive compared to my outgoing 2018 i5 13" Pro. And since I normally use a very dark desktop background that makes the menu bar black even in light mode I never even notice the notch!
You're not wrong, it would likely confuse now that I think about it more. Maybe a picture of a stopwatch or the export dialogue to go along with the FCPX picture? IDK, either way good video and comparison!
Oh no need to do any changes on my account. Was more saying I was happy to read then view the other real world tests.
Nicely done!
Yeah I guess you're right, I guess I'm trying to say that I think there should have been more negativity towards the keyboard. Perhaps folk were just so relieved that it was a major upgrade from the butterfly keyboard! It's something I'll get used to in no time, it's not terrible.
I would absolutely love to see the Mx chips actually try to win over the gaming developers, but it is not so... yet.
It's basically the same keyboard they've been shipping for a while in the post-butterfly era, so there's really not much new to say about it at this point. When the keyboard first came out it got an extremely positive reception, so I wouldn't expect much negativity towards it in any event.
It seems to take 5 minutes to watch a 5-minute video, no matter what I do. Also, I notice that MacRumors forum posts take just as long to read on either machine.But how does it perform watching cat vids on YouTube?
No, they lack the nuclear battery and liquid helium cooling system necessary to run Crysis.
It is somewhat reassuring see my ($$$) 10-core i9/5700XT 2020 iMac is still holding up fairly well to the entry level MacBook Pros here. Definitely a fair lower compared the Pro chip's compute scores (scores 1313 & 9748) and mid-way on the Metal score (~5800) between Pro and Max. It would for sure be crushed on any tasks that have dedicated computation cores, such as processing ProRes. It is also excluded from those handful of M1-only MacOS features.
Of course this computer takes a lot more wattage to run overall and is prone to fan noise despite the larger body. The M1 chips are certainly impressive, especially for power efficiency!
Of course this computer takes a lot more wattage to run overall and is prone to fan noise despite the larger body. The M1 chips are certainly impressive, especially for power efficiency!
Indeed, I've been pounding on mine and have yet to have the fans turn on, I have TG Pro and can turn the fans on if I need to, but no need yet. Processor has not been over 125 degrees and battery about 84 degrees. This machine is superb folks, worth your dimes, all 20,000 of them!
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On this topic, I was speculating privately a bit that this chip might be what puts devs over the kool-aid hump and gets us some arm64+metal first/native games.
I know its probably not a wise financial choice for dev studios to target that as a main platform, since the market is unproven yet tiny... but you can specify Metal as a render target for Unity, Unreal. So how hard can it be™?
Youtube has a few "benchmarks" of Metal/arm native games. Mostly Disco Elysium. But nothing really impressive?
MoltenVK stuff does _ok_, so Dolphin is good to go. But im a bit disappointed. I think I got too optimistic about how these new chips will do video games in the short term.
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Actually Baldur's Gate 3 looks pretty good.
I would also like a comparison between the base 14 and the "old" 13 with the regular M1.
Any real-world tests (not geekbench) on those machines?
Any real-world tests (not geekbench) on those machines?
Btw, Blender is not yet supporting Metal API and they are planning to supporting in Mid 2022.
I’m going to order a base model too + 32 gb of memory.
Haven’t ordered yet because I don’t want to be forced to use Monterey. Like the last 2 (maybe 3) OS releases, Monterey is a few months away for being safe and ready to use as a creative professional.
Haven’t ordered yet because I don’t want to be forced to use Monterey. Like the last 2 (maybe 3) OS releases, Monterey is a few months away for being safe and ready to use as a creative professional.
I thought Apple only mentioned mechanical keyboard in context of replacing the Touch Bar with mechanical (physical) F-keys, and not meant to be compared with full on mechanical keyboards. Guess I need to check their marketing.
Just do a search for 14" M1 Pro vs 14" M1 Max on YouTube. There are soooooo many videos covering all kinds of comparisons of the new M1Pro/Max machines on YT.
Here's a photo of the Intel-based MBP running the 8K export benchmark:
Well... the 14" AppleSilicon gets 105°C in CB R23 in this video....