MBP 14 & 16 Reviews are coming out.

[Ahboyd]

A review from Dave2D, the 16" with can do 120 FPS Overwatch on Parallels.. I'm getting one.

 

[nquinn]

Looks like the MAX chip with better memory bandwidth may offer some nice advantages.

xcode full build time:
M1 MAX 16"/32core gpu: 34s
M1 PRO 14"/14core gpu: 47s

Possible that some of that is in the thermal advantages of the 16" vs 14" chassis - we'll find out, but either way a 27% reduced build time using the MAX looks pretty nice.

Time stamped the video with a few other benchmarks on those two.

 

[RossMacca]

Looks like the MAX chip with better memory bandwidth may offer some nice advantages.

xcode full build time:
M1 MAX 16"/32core gpu: 34s
M1 PRO 14"/14core gpu: 47s

Possible that some of that is in the thermal advantages of the 16" vs 14" chassis - we'll find out, but either way a 27% reduced build time using the MAX looks pretty nice.

Time stamped the video with a few other benchmarks on those two.

That difference could well be attributed to the fact the 14-inch one is using the binned M1 Pro with the 8 core CPU and not the 10 core version.

I suspect for Xcode, there won’t be too much difference between an equal memory spec of M1 Pro vs Max.

 

[nquinn]

That difference could well be attributed to the fact the 14-inch one is using the binned M1 Pro with the 8 core CPU and not the 10 core version.

I suspect for Xcode, there won’t be too much difference between an equal memory spec of M1 Pro vs Max.

Ah I totally missed that the 14 was using the 8core binned version. Blah.