this is one of the best laptops in the world Samsung's Galaxy book 3 Ultra
because not only does it have Intel's 13 gen processors the fastest chip we've
ever built but also Nvidia 40 series graphics and today we are going to
compare everything from the design the displays speakers and webcams all the
way to Performance both in benchmarks and real world tasks along with a couple
new tests as far as price they are very similar the Samsung is a hundred dollars
less expensive and it comes with a terabyte of storage which is awesome
we're gonna test that out but you can buy the MacBook right now for a hundred
dollars Less on Amazon links are down below as far as the design and ports you
have the classic Mac look and the Samsung also looks very classy and nice
minimalist design we have vents here on the bottom I like the color but it is a
fingerprint magnet the MacBook keeps the vents on the side so they're not as
easily blocked but the same Samsung has some big speaker ports that should have
impressive speakers as far as weight the Samsung is noticeably lighter even
though it is made out of metal and as far as thickness they are almost
identical back to back but the Samsung does have a more classy wedge shape as
far as ports I do like the Samsung still gives you a USB type a port but I wish
the micro SD card slot was a full size both of them have HDMI but the MacBook
has that nice magnetic Maxi charger and you have three Thunderbolt ports instead
of two on the inside both of these do have fingerprint scanners to log in but
I really wish that the ultra had my favorite Windows feature which is
Windows hello but it doesn't one thing it does have is a numpad on the sides
over here so it's so nice to enter numbers having this where's the MacBook
just has these large speakers as far as keyboards the Samsung does have
shallower keys but they do feel quite nice with that said the macbook's magic
keyboard feels better and for track pads of course the MacBook has the best
trackpad but I was really shocked at how large this Samsung trackpad is it is
massive now it is still a diving board design uh but it is nice and responsive
now above that we have the displays and this Samsung has a Super AMOLED display
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code mtyt25 now both of these are 16 inch
displays and the Samsung has a 2880 by 1800 resolution the same as the older
MacBooks now this new 16-inch has a high resolution but can I tell with my eyes
no both of them look super sharp and what's even cooler is the fact that
they're using a 16 by 10 and they have a 120 hertz refresh rate so everything is
super smooth it could also dynamically switch between 60 and 1 120 hertz of
course with the MacBook we have Pro motion so it could do up to 120 hertz
but it can drop down all the way to 24 matching your content and that saves
more battery now since I mentioned battery the MacBook has a 100 watt hour
battery the maximum amount you can have on an airplane compared to the Samsung's
77 watt hour so it's definitely less there as well and they give you 100 watt
charging brick which is nice but the MacBook has a 140 watt so it does charge
super fast now as usual the battery life claims are very high in Windows laptops
but in terms of real world usage the MacBook does beat it out looking at
these displays I am impressed with the Samsung oftentimes with OLED screens the
black should be pure black but because of the anti-reflectivity they look great
but this one does look nice and dark now it does have more Reflections than the
Macbook so that is noticeable in a room like this I think this is the best OLED
screen I've seen on a laptop and as far as viewing angles it is better than the
macbook's mini LED display but in terms of Maximum brightness if you're looking
straight on the MacBook does get brighter at 500 nits now as far as HDR
the MacBook can actually get up to 1600 nits compared to around 500 on the OLED
now this video right here only goes up to a thousand but you guys can see the
difference not only in brightness but also in the detail and the highlights
which is also visible in these dark shots here where we have a lot of fine
detail and brightness compared to something that looks blown out now mini
LED can have blooming issues which does get annoying but overall the experience
is a lot better and it's going to take a long time before OLED can get this
bright with dual layer technology now what about the speakers in the webcam
Samsung advertised they're really nice quad powerful speakers of course the
MacBook has six speakers so let's go ahead and take a listen
forgive me all right guys you heard that for
yourselves no matter how you're advertising the truth comes out well I
know some people say you guys don't like Samsung we gave great reviews to the s23
Smoke die from 14. a lot of the products are good but here you guys heard the
MacBook has so much more bass it's louder a lot more rich and it makes for
a great movie watching experience but what about the webcams Samsung also
advertised their really nice webcams so let's take a look this is the 16-inch
MacBook Pro's 1080p webcam and studio quality microphones quality and this is
the galaxy book Ultras wide 1080p webcam quality and it also has dual
front-facing microphones let me know which one looked better and sounded
better down in the comment section below getting into performance the Samsung
comes with one terabyte of SSD compared to 512 so how fast is it let's go ahead
and run this test all right we have our results and the Samsung is way faster
than the MacBooks I thought maybe they could have been cheaper ssds because it
could be a terabyte but no now with the MacBook you can actually get speeds that
are faster than Samsung but you have to spend a lot of money to upgrade to one
terabyte now with that one thing that I've never tested before is Samsung's
Quick Share which is the same thing as airdrop for iPhone so I'm gonna see how
well does this actually work click on the s23 ultra I'm going to start a timer
here this is a 577 megabyte file that took 27 seconds to transfer it was very
easy to do so I'm actually impressed it works well wow 28 seconds for the iPhone
using the latest MacBook latest iPhone and same thing with the Samsung so
airdrop is no longer exclusive great job Samsung and now let's compare the CPU
performance using geekbench the Samsung has a 13 700 H 14 core 20 thread
processor up to 4.8 gigahertz compared to 12 cores that goes up to 3.5
geekbench 6 is way more realistic for modern loads so let's see what we get
this test takes way longer with geekbench 6 but it's a lot more
realistic for modern loads alright we have our Scores And as far as single
core the MacBook is only seven percent faster but in multi-core score here we
have 10 400 compared to fourteen thousand that's a difference of 35 in
favor of the M2 Pro chip that has a lower clock frequency and less cores but
you guys may have noticed we're running on battery power and so far the Samsung
has been doing pretty good so let's go ahead and plug in the power all right
there we go the numbers went up from 10 000 to 12 500 that's 21 faster if you
plug it in and yes I did have it set to best performance on battery but that 12
500 is still not enough to compete with the macbook's 14 000 being 12 faster and
all on battery performance but what about Graphics we have 19 Graphics cores
with the M2 Pro compared to the RTX 4050 studio version which is supposed to be
optimized for compute tasks like this and it looks like the MacBook one we
have 81 700 compared to sixty nine thousand three hundred the difference of
close to 20 percent but of course the Windows laptop is plugged in so if we go
ahead and unplug that and then run it again we see 47
000 so it's not twice as powerful in the MacBook uh but getting closer to there
so yes if you want the best performance on the Samsung both CPU and Graphics
unfortunately you have to have it plugged in now what about web-based apps
for example here we have figma for web design using a project that our partner
500 designs made for us they're one of the best Design Studios in La so here we
have a high res website and I'm just going to go ahead and zoom in right here
see how responsive things are so wow that uh was very quick to go ahead and
refresh everything give us the high resolution files let's try here
um couple seconds lagging a little bit bam kicked in so overall nice and smooth
this 13 gen does a great job let's test out the MacBook
zoom in started refreshing bam also very fast
maybe slightly faster or maybe the same I would say it's about on par and now I
selected 12 high resolution layers and we are going to export this web page and
the MacBook took one minute and 35 seconds quite a bit faster and doing it
on battery so that's pretty impressive now people say why do you guys do so
many different tests well we want to see the whole picture not just one Benchmark
people say this the best one is laptop it is very nice but it is definitely
hard to compete with the Mac especially when it comes to Performance now Windows
laptops are great for gaming so I'm going to run 3D Marks Wildlife extreme
unlimited to make it completely Fair regardless of resolution the results
show as legendary on the Samsung but the MacBook actually has a higher score
looking at 77.8 FPS compared to 67.3 so roughly 15 16 better frame rate so I
guess is also legendary now of course there are way more games for Windows
they're well optimized we actually made a dedicated gaming video on these new
MacBooks so you guys can check that out both running crossover for Windows games
and dedicated ones that are optimized like the new Resident Evil now one area
Nvidia Graphics are amazing is for 3D rendering using blender especially when
you enable support for Ray tracing course doing the rendering so here we
have the BMW test which is probably the most popular one and let's go ahead and
render it we have Ray tracing compared to metal and look at that difference we
have 40 seconds for the MacBook compared to 14 seconds yes more than twice as
fast with the RTX graphics card on the Samsung this is where it destroys the
MacBook but what about for other creative tasks for example I have
Photoshop Lightroom classic opened up right here with 50 high resolution
edited images I went in I made sure to enable full Graphics acceleration for
export on the Windows laptop as well flipping through files where they have
the same settings I have to render each time the results are pretty much the
same after that first photo maybe slightly slower on the Windows Samsung
laptop even though we have that faster SSD and now let's go ahead and Export
these 50 images and of course I have the Windows laptop plugged in for the best
performance now as this runs one of the things I have to mention is the fan
noise and the temperatures on the MacBook the fans are still off and
they've been silent the whole time which is crazy with the M2 Pro there is the
fans are designed for overhead for the higher end Graphics while this one I can
clearly hear the fans even when running geekbench on the Windows laptop we are
reaching actually almost five gigahertz 4.998 that's five gigahertz compared to
3 0.3 on the MacBook and we are using a lot more power I see 55 it's going all
over the place probably trying to keep itself cool compared to using about 37
or so looks like each image gets rendered and it kind of slows down now
let's take a look at Thermals here we have 38 degrees Celsius on the Windows
laptop you guys see that hot spot and on the Mac 31 32
definitely cooler in a smaller hot spot and the results are in the Windows
laptop took a minute and 32 seconds definitely really nice and quick but the
MacBook took 58 seconds to do that quite a bit faster and of course on batteries
so for photo editing the processing power the unified memory architecture is
very efficient now what about video editing I have DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio
opened which is extremely well optimized for both and this is a 4K hf265 graded
projects with Luts film grain both are playing it back perfectly fine with no
issues our MacBooks only using about 13 of the graphics meaning it has a ton of
overhead for more effects multi-cam footage now the windows is using about
36 of that Nvidia graphics card so it needs more of that performance to do
this and now let's go ahead and Export this five minute project and let's see
how they do the Nvidia card is doing not too bad but the Mac is running faster
the MacBook took a minute 20 seconds compared to a minute and 44. now both
these are very fast I have to say I'm very impressed with the Samsung and the
Nvidia graphics card the previous generation similar one uh the 3050 TI
that would have taken way longer so this is great now of course it is plugged in
most likely you would be rendering with the plugged in with the Mac I typically
don't because the performance stays the same but let's try it out just to see
the difference that we get and that took two minutes and 40 seconds not that much
longer yes it is longer that does kind of suck but before sometimes you'd go
from three minutes to 12 that would be very terrible so with all of that said
um how these compare how does the best Windows laptop I've seen a lot of people
say this uh in 2023 very well-rounded compared to the MacBook well in certain
cases it beats it out but in a lot of instances for a similar price point with
the discounts available now you do get a better product that will hold its value
better you'll have better battery life it will perform the same on battery uh
overall I do think it's the better buy as long as you don't need Windows but
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