Announced more than a month ago, Apple's latest laptops are real performance monsters. And for good reason: they are bringing the latest generation of in-house chips from the Californian manufacturer to this range for the first time, available in two choices: the M1 Pro and the M1 Max. But if one is more powerful than the other on paper, it seems in reality that certain differences that are not always obvious should also be taken into account when making a possible purchase...
According toCNET, who had already shared his full opinion on the 2021 MacBook Pros with us ina video published on his YouTube channel to watch again right here, everything would in fact depend on the user profile and not just on the theoretical velocity of each SiP*.
Graphics card
Dan Ackerman, journalist at the origin of these measurements, first wanted to know which of the M1 Pro or the M1 Max broadcast the smoothest images. Unsurprisingly, it is the runner-up who wins, hands down, including number one at Geekbench 5 Metal (65,923 points). Same thing for the 3D Mark Wildlife Extreme Unlimited app, where the best equipped 16-inch MacBook Pro is ahead of its little brother by almost 10,000 points. With an honorable mention for AMD's Ryzen 5900HX and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs on the Razer Blade 14, at the top of the ranking.
Suite Adobe
CNETalso reports that differences in efficiency are rare when switching from M1 Pro to M1 Max under Illustrator or Photoshop. However, the two services are among the most popular on the market. However, history does not say to what extent the machines tested here were tested before their evaluation, so that a few long-term requests upstream for the M1 Max could work to its disadvantage.
M1 Pro M1 Max MacBook Pro © Apple
Design 3D
When it comes to animating three-dimensional scenes with Houdini software, the renderings are displayed as quickly on the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip as on the 16-inch with M1 Max chip.
Joseph Ibrahim, a special effects expert from New York, noted that the M1 Max responds more quickly to most other tasks with this program. As for the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip released in 2020, we find it at the bottom of the basket: it would be almost half as fast as its successors.
The M1, still a very good choice
Finally, Ackerman believes that the MacBook Air andLast year's 13-inch MacBook Pro still on saleremain excellent alternatives, at lower cost, for basic video editing or even in 4K. In short, we can easily assure that you should not experience any slowdowns that are too annoying for this type of task, especially with tools from Apple like Final Cut.
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