So I have here the latest and greatest 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pro and also the Mac Mini all
the quit with the M2 Pro chipset inside but what M2 Pro chipset is the fastest in each of these
three Macs now other YouTubers out there will be comparing say the M2 Max to the M1 Max and
then also other ones will be comparing say the M2 Pro to the bin M2 Pro to the end M1 and then also
like the M1 Pro and so on and so forth but I want to do something a little bit different today what
I want to do is I want to do a review comparison for you by putting the same chipset in all three
of the new Macs that have just come out and see if there's a difference in performance and speed
amongst the three models if they all have that exact same chip now there is only one chipset
that is available in all three of these Macs that I have and that is the M2 Pro normal now
you're probably wondering what I mean by the M2 Pro normal well this is the standard 12 core CPU
with four efficiency cores and eight performance cores and either the choice of 16 or 19 cores GPU
then a choice of 16 or 32 gigabytes of RAM so for the purpose of today's experiment I have brought
Max with the exact same chipset inside them and this is the 12 core CPU the 19 core CPU and also
16 gigabytes of RAM in each of these mats and also I've chosen 512 gigabytes of storage too
I do also have a bin M2 Pro so this is the one with the 10 cores inside it the four efficiency
cores and also the six performance scores and then also having that 16 core GPU and I'll be
comparing this to the brand new M2 Pro with the 12 core variant that I've just spoke about but
that'll be a little bit further on into the video but as mentioned the main purpose is to see if we
will get a difference between the 40 and 16 inch MacBook Pros and the Mac Mini in performance using
the identical specs inside them well you know what the experiment's going to be so let's get
started well after doing a quick unboxing that I'm not going to go into lots of details as it's
basically the same as the last MacBook Pros and the same map minis for donkeys and I'm sure loads
more YouTubers out there will be making videos about some fancy stickers inside that you get
and all that kind of stuff however I have set up all three MacBooks on my review bench here
and I've plugged in a portable monitor into the Mac Mini to with a wireless keyboard and mouse
so by popular demand the first test I'm going to do is a good old benchmark test and that's going
to be a geekbench 5 test so all three max have this installed and first of all let's look at
the single core performance so on the single core Benchmark you can see on geekbench 5. really when
we have the M2 chipsets all of the single cores are basically the same speed across the whole of
the M2 family so right at the bottom you can see we've got the M2 air what comes in at a score of
1909 and the M2 pro at 1965 1972 then 1980 yes there's very very slight sort of improvement but
over the M1 Pro you can see here this was the 10 core one you can see that definitely there
has been an improvement in single core sort of performance that we're getting now with
the M2 instead it's really really impressive so next let's move on to what multi-score gave
us so for multi-core performance with the M2 Pro chipset you can see there really isn't anything
in it the same chipset inside all of the three of these same Macs we're getting scores that
are so similar to each each other for example the Mac Mini then we've got the after that we've got
the 14 inch MacBook Pro then the 16 inch MacBook Pro at the top but then at the bottom you can see
the difference there with the M1 Pro and then after that you've also got the M2 air as well
the standard M2 chipset but overall the three devices that we have here right now the speed
for multi-core are basically exactly the same basically probably about one percent in it between
all of the scores here was really nothing at all and why we're hearing geekbench let's finally do
a metal score in geekbench 5. so geekbench 5 also does a compute metal speed so this is basically
testing out metal the graphics power and you can see here with the M2 Pro Mac Mini all the way up
to the 16 inch MacBook Pro again there's really nothing in it they're very very similar indeed you
can definitely see there's improvements over the M1 Pro 10 core version and also over the 10 core
M2 normal chipset 2. remember that M1 on Pro the reason why it's pulling out in front is it does
have more performance cores inside it so that is why we're seeing the Leaps and Bounds plus also
we get some more graphical cores in the M1 Pro too compared to the normal M2 chipset okay moving on
from geekbench 5 let's now move on to cinebench R23 and first of all let's look at the single
core performance in here so starting out then with the single core as you can see here really for the
M2 Pro in all three of these devices they're all basically the same we're getting very very similar
scores indeed what is also impressive is also that the M2 normal is actually slightly behind
here on the cinebench single core but really it is still way ahead than the M1 Pro in comparison for
example and now let's do multi-core performance so again just like the geekbench the multi-core
score for cinebench is very very similar sort of picture we've got here all three of the M2
Pro Max that we have here are basically neck and neck within just a few points of each other
if I re-round these tests again really um you'd get the same sort of score and just in case you
want to know I did rerun the geekbench score and sometimes like for example the 14 inch MacBook
Pro left ahead but generally speaking this was the order that things came in in their sort of speed
sort of score for multi-core on geekbench and also for cinebench that you can see right here
okay I think stopping here on standard CPU and GPU benchmarks is a good place to stop right now to be
fair I think we're guessing the picture here for standard Benchmark tools all three of these mats
essentially perform the same within less than one percent of performance with each of them I
could do more tests for example say in blender we're doing some rendering there or I could do
for example Eugene heaven for example doing a graphical sort of Benchmark there I think you get
the idea all the scores are going to be around about the same so really there isn't that much
point but before we continue on we're doing any more tests let's narrow down that one percent of
sort of difference between them like I said it's less than one percent difference between these
three Macs and let's have a look here so basically I would say in third place is the Mac Mini and
then after that we've got the 14 inch MacBook Pro then after that we've got the 16 inch MacBook Pro
all having this M2 Pro chipset inside it so the Mac minis last and then the 16 inch MacBook Pro
is first but like I will say again it's within one percent so the difference between them all
together in that one percent was absolutely crazy to be when you think about it but moving on let's
move on to something a little bit more real now let's do something that was quite common that we'd
actually do with these mats so I'm actually going to do an export in Final Cut Pro now I've actually
got a video what is 11 minutes long and I'm going to export this and let's see what the difference
is then but between these three Macs so then we're doing an 11 minute video Final Cut Pro export 4K
h365 you can see here the differences that we have and to be honest straight away the M2 MacBook Air
obviously it was the slowest then it was the M1 Pro as expected but as you can see here for the
M2 chipset in all three of these Macs there's literally about three seconds between it if you
rerun this test again like I did do that actually what actually happened was the 14 inch MacBook Pro
came out in front this time but the other two devices again were about one second behind but
generally speaking I did do the test one more time again and it did come out the same results here
where you can actually see the 16 inch MacBook Pro actually did it ever so slightly faster with
giving us this performance with these marks and like what we saw there with the normal M2
and things like this one of the main changes was that with the M2 sort of map air and the MacBook
Pro what we did get on the smallest amount of say storage is that we actually got slower speeds and
I want to know if we're going to get slower speeds if we pick 512 gigabytes on each of these three
Macs so I'm going to do a black magic test now of the hard drives and see how fast they spin up to
on their right speed so we're doing the Blackmagic benchmarking here for the actual storage to see
kind of what write speeds we were getting you can see here that the M2 air was the slowest as
we know because I think Apple sort of cheated out with cheaper chipsets inside them to make the SSD
a little bit slower this time round but then the M1 Pro obviously was way ahead than that M2 air
but then interesting the M2 Pro inside the Mac Mini was actually slower than what you actually
get in the 14 and the 16 inch MacBook Pros to be honest though what I would say is even with
getting the right speed of 3481 megabytes really that is still very fast and for an M2 Pro chipset
that really you're not going to be bottlenecking yourself in having a sort of slower speed here the
chipset can only sort of throw out uh footage or rendering whatever it's trying to do as fast as
it can and obviously it needs to write that speed as quick as it can too and to be honest 3481 sort
of megabytes is more than enough for actual sort of writing source of speeds but obviously still
the 14 inch and the 16 inch MacBook Pros have far faster storage in it and maybe
the main compensation for that is because you can choose to have the M2 Max chipsets inside there
so for thermal heat temperatures this is also in degrees Centigrade that's the sort of thing that
we use here in the UK I redid that 4K social video that I exported earlier that I showed you guys the
h365 and basically where it got to the last sort of 30 sort of seconds I did do sort of testing of
the heat of where everything was so starting right at the bottom obviously the M2 MacBook
Air was really really high it was 56 degrees but then if you look above them things aren't really
that different we actually had the M1 Pro it was 38 degrees the M2 Pro and the Mac Mini 39 then
the M2 Pro and the 14 inch that was 40 degrees and then the 16 inch MacBook Pro was also 39 degrees
too so really there wasn't that much in it with the actual sort of heat as it were amongst really
the last sort of year of MacBook Pros with the 14 and 16 inch with that M1 Pro to this generation
here they're all around about the same sort of heat but obviously yep the M2 air was 56gb Grace
mainly because there is no fan inside it well there we have it guys as you can see here with all
of those sort of benchmark scores that we've just done there and all that testing you can see there
is less than one percent difference between each of the maps remember that's not one percent per se
between the Mac Mini and the 14-inch MacBook Pro and another one percent to the 16 inch MacBook Pro
I'm talking about all three together there's only one percent difference in that that the
performance is all together so what I'm trying to say here is you were to pick yourself a brand
new Mac based on just literally performance alone and you've got the same chipset and you're wanting
to get that certain M2 Pro chipset inside one of these three Macs there isn't really gonna be any
difference where things will be different is to do with say portability actually having a screen for
example on the go with a MacBook Pro also those ports as well and also other things like battery
life and all of those bits and pieces that you have to consider too but the main thing for just
genuine standard performance it's exactly the same across free models but obviously you guys
not only satisfied with that you'll definitely want to know then what is the difference then
between these Macs that I brought what was the end results well the end result that I can conclude is
this is that the Mac Mini did come last and then it was followed by the 14 inch and 16 inch MacBook
Pro in the performance so the 16 inch MacBook Pro gave us that extra tiny bit more performance even
though it's like a blink of an eye difference if you exported say a video that was say 30 minutes
long for example but you're probably wondering why this is the case and the main reasons that I think
behind this is that when we got the 14 inch and the 16 inch MacBook Pros in 2021. you've got to
remember we've got brand new designs there we've got brand new fans and a brand new way of calling
everything down now with the 14 inch we got a brilliant new design but the 16 inch design was
basically a slightly larger version than the 14 inch so that basically meant like the heat pipe
rail was slightly longer there's also a little bit more space of air to blur around than the 16
inch and that's why I think it slightly beats out the 14 inch but this is just my own opinion
but then you're probably wondering about the say the Mac Mini the Mac Mini at the day is the most
chunkiest out of all of these even with the lids closed on the 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros the Mac
Pro is still thicker so you'd think there's even more room and space inside that well I think the
reason why this came last is mainly because the Mac Mini design has been out for 12 years and the
cooling design inside hasn't really changed at all over those years there isn't a way to sort of suck
in air really efficiently and blow it out again and that's why I think basically it's done it and
the reason why Apple haven't actually updated the design is because they know this there's
no point updating the design because basically it's within less than one percent to say the 16
inch MacBook Pro so you know the old saying if it ain't broke don't fix it so I think this is
why they have left it the way it is right now but what about the M2 Pro bin cord version versus the
M2 Pro normal version and well I've just done a geekbench for this so let's have a look at that
so comparing the two Mac Minis that we have here obviously the single core score nothing
really was going to happen so starting out here then with the eat bench 5 for the single core
for these two map minis as you can see here as expected they're basically neck and neck
for single core but moving over to multi-core score then yes the 10 core CPU and the 16 core
but then for multi-core score with the 12 core and the 19 core CPU you can see it's way ahead than
the 10 core and the 16 core that is definitely a difference there so yeah do Choose Wisely on the
sort of multi-core sort of performance that you do want to pick for on the emma2 pro but having
said that though remember that the M2 Pro what you see here what is the 10 core and the 16th
core version remember this is far faster than what we got with the last year binned M1 Pro chipset
so just like last time with the M1 Pro bin version of cores versus the normal M1 Pro with
all the cores inside it there is a little bit of difference there but at the end of the day you've
got to spec up the machine to the right sort of needs for you so if you are just doing basic
video editing and things like this the normal bin version M2 Pro probably be absolutely fine
if you start chucking in like loads of 4K sort of clips and videos and things like this yeah you're
probably actually going to need a more sort of higher up M2 Pro with those extra cores and maybe
GPU cores but overall as you can see there is a little bit more of a difference again but not
that much so if you do want to get yourself a great bargain out there definitely so consider
getting yourself the brand new Mac Mini with the M2 Pro inside it but in either case guys I think
we've got the answer here to our original question and that is is there any difference if you pick
the exact same chipset amongst all the different Macs Outlet the new ones that have just come out
and the answer is no unless there's like about a one percent difference in it and they're all
within that one percent so really there's nothing in it at all what are your thoughts on this guys
do you think it doesn't matter what kind of Mac you pick on performance or do you think it does
matter that you need to pick basically the right core for the or the right kind of sort of chords
and chipset and bits and pieces for your Mac I would love to know so put it down in the comments
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