The M1’s success in the past year has been perceived much more sharply than the success of the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Because of the M1, the least serious Macs beat higher-end laptops in the benchmarks and handled the most time-consuming tasks without any problems. Without overheating and without emptying the batteries. Someone was looking for a trick, someone was sincerely happy for Apple – there were more than enough emotions. Apple has done better this year. The M1 Pro and M1 Max are exceptionally good. On October 18, not a single laptop with Intel inside was left in the company’s lineup. MacBook Airand MacBook Pros outsell Apple desktops and workstations. The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are at least as good as the best powerful laptops in the competition. But there are no emotions about this. Some desktop computers were also unable to resist the power of the new chips.
MacBook Pro on M1 Max delivers even better performance than you might imagine
As you know, Apple provides some lucky ones (whose opinion is not indifferent to it) Macs and which have not even been announced yet. One week before the presentation. For two to three weeks. Under the promise to abide by the rules, not to disclose information about the device under test until the day the embargo is lifted, and to publish impressions of this device. Honestly and impartially. The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max (with a 32-core GPU) inside went to the person whose main work computer since 2017 has been and remains an iMac Pro with an 8-core Intel Xeon. There have been no complaints about the iMac Pro.
Чем отличаются M1 Pro и M1 Max
Last year, it beat the M1 MacBook Air in most tests, although there were exceptions. On the iMac Pro, the project in Xcode was assembled in 36 minutes, and the MacBook Air completed it in just 30 minutes. But a workstation bought for almost half a million rubles, it would seem, in principle, is incomparable with a laptop for 130 thousand. The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max with 32-core GPU and 64GB of pooled memory costs Rs 354,990 (it’s only a quarter cheaper than the iMac Pro) and outperforms the iMac Pro in all tests. The test project in Xcode on a MacBook Pro was assembled in 18 minutes. Twice as fast as 2017 workstation.
Performance M1 Max
Intel-based iMac 27 ″ is still more powerful than iMac 24 ″, but inferior to M1 Max
What they just do not write about the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro. The body is thicker (by 0.6 mm), their bodies have an outdated HDMI 2.0 port (why HDMI 2.1?), A slot for UHS-II SD cards, not UHS-III. Why Apple hasn’t equipped the new MacBook Pros with the latest technology I don’t know. Maybe this was done so that we did not notice some more serious flaws? Wait and see. And the “bangs” I also do not like too much, although you quickly cease to notice it. For a professional laptop, this is not the most important thing. On the dice of the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are the most important elements of the computer.
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These are processors: central, graphics, neural and some other – Apple does not provide details, and modules for different purposes. Three computers participated in all tests below: the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max (with 32-core GPU), the M1 MacBook Air, and the 8-core iMac Pro. Some tests included a 12-core Mac Pro and a 2020 27-inch iMac with a 10th Gen 10-core Intel Core i9. Results of performance tests of one core in Geekbench 5:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro – 1644
- M1 MacBook Air – 1711
- iMac Pro – 1058
- iMac 2020 – 1244
Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark results:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro – 11715
- M1 MacBook Air – 7545
- iMac Pro – 8107
- iMac 2020 – 9012
Geekbench 5 (Metal) graphics performance test results:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro – 66688
- M1 MacBook Air – 19220
- iMac Pro (Vega 56 GPU) – 58393
Export from Final Cut Pro (less is better):
- 14-inch MacBook Pro – 769
- M1 MacBook Air – 1200;
- iMac Pro – 1116
- 12-core Mac Pro – 798
During the presentation of the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware, mentioned that the speed of access to SSDs has more than doubled compared to M1 Macs. Here are the Blackmagic Disk Write benchmark results (write speed):
- 14-inch MacBook Pro – 6278
- M1 MacBook Air – 2361
- iMac Pro – 2692
Blackmagic Disk Read test results (read speed):
- 14-inch MacBook Pro – 5422
- M1 MacBook Air – 2866
- iMac Pro – 2437
Which Mac to choose
If you need a home computer, take any on the M1. And for professional tasks you need something more powerful. For example, M1 Pro or M1 Max
There is a paradoxical situation in the Mac lineup. The 27-inch iMac with 10th Gen 10-core Intel Core i9, and even the 8-core Mac Pro, are inferior in performance to the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max. The most powerful desktop Mac and one of the powerful workstation configurations. Generally speaking, desktop computers, in theory, should be more powerful and more durable than the most powerful laptops. Desktop computers and workstations can use the processors to their full capacity. Laptops, even the most economical ones, have to limit themselves.
The current situation is not logical, raises questions and worsens sales of desktop computers. These are the vicissitudes of a transitional period. Apple is moving from Intel processors to chips (systems on a chip) of its own design. The transition began with entry-level computers, with only the “advanced” 13-inch MacBook Pro with Intel inside the transition problems. In 2021, the professional MacBook Pro switched to the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Desktop computers have fallen behind. In 2022, they should also switch to chips developed by Apple. The situation will return to normal by the end of next year.
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