So then Guys the day has come the new mac studio is here and i've got an m1 ultra
variant of it and today i want to do a comparison of the top spec mac mini what's this one here
and this is the one with an intel i7 inside it and i've spec this up to two thousand dollars
and i want to compare it to the likes of an m1 ultra will cost four thousand dollars and
see what the actual differences are between both of these devices well without further ado
let's start with doing a bit of an unboxing what i have done for this mac studio
so today i got two boxes in the mail and as you can see here one of them contained the brand new
mac studio it came in a really nice box and i can't be bothered to get all the packaging out
and everything if you want to see something like that there's loads of videos on youtube but just
in case you wanted to know i also got the brand new studio display as well and it looks absolutely
gorgeous and i've done a bit of an unboxing for this even though i got the box the wrong way
around to begin with when i tried opening it but after this i decided to set up my mac studio and i
also decided to set the studio display on my desk and as you can see it looks absolutely gorgeous
this is definitely a imac pro replacement or 27 inch replacement it looks beautiful on my desk i
love it how it's positioned i love it how the mac studio has so many ports on the back of it as well
compared to the likes of say an imac pro which is maintenance of usbc ports on the back i love
it i think it's absolutely amazing and also the studio display looks really crisp really gorgeous
and i can't wait to work on a display like this at 5k resolution so with that out of the way
let's do a comparison then of what we've got then with the mac studio and also the mac mini
so starting with the mac mini this mac mini came out at the end of 2018 and it hasn't really been
upgraded since and yet still apple still sells today even though the mac studio has come out
you can still buy this intel version i've specced up this mac studio to have one terabyte of storage
inside it i've also upgraded the ram as well like i've upgraded to an i7 six core processor inside
to make this more of an even match towards the sort of mac studio i could go silly and upgrade
the storage even further but i don't really want to do that so i ordered this mac mini and as you
can see it is the standard mac mini design we've had for probably about the last sort of 12 years
and inside it is an intel chipset now this mac mini is still supported and it is still a great
machine for what it is if you really want to do kind of standard kind of daily tasks i wouldn't
actually buy this mac mini personally brand new like what i've just done because it's really
really silly to do so personally i'd actually get yourself the m1 mac mini what actually gives you
better performance than even this pack mini that i'm holding right here and it of course it is far
far cheaper so yeah if you want to get a mac mini straightaway out of the box definitely get the m1
variant let's have a look at the mac studio next then so the mac studio is like a larger version of
the mac mini even the form factor as you can see here with them two stacks on each other they're
literally identical we basically got here about two and a half sort of mac mini sort of wedged
together in one sort of unit and the main reason behind that is because of this big fat grill that
you can see on the back here for the fan outlook and that's because of that m1 ultra and the m1
max you have inside this machine it will get super super hot if you chuck a lot at it especially
with the m1 ultra that you have basically two m1 maxes inside this so i can understand why apple
made that but overall to be honest it's still not that big of a machine considering that the power
we're gonna get from this what you're gonna see in some benchmarks in just a moment but overall i
really love this mac studio design i love the form factors already said and it also gives the same
amount of ports basically as what you got with the mac mini higher spec you get all those thunderbolt
ports granted these are thunderbolt 4 ports on here but you get that hdmi and you also get
that usb ports as well the 3.1 or 3.0 supports and also hdmi 2 and also both of these have 10 gigabit
ethernet on them the only main difference has got to be the power whereas one of them has got like
a figure of eight and the other one's got the sort of free pin on the back and to be honest those are
mainly the differences on it but overall as you can see things have been kind of switched around
as well where we actually have the grille on the bottom of the mac mini to let the air out whereas
on the mac studio it's above and it's on top instead but going back to the mac studio i've only
managed to put a few benchmark tools onto it to do some initial tests first of all and to be honest
if you want to see some more tests in the future write them down in the comments below and i'll
see what i can do in making some future videos for that but first of all what i've been doing is been
doing basically geek bench scoring on this mac mini versus the mac studio and have a look here
first of all for geekbench 5 single core so at the very bottom we have the mac mini with the i7
after this we have an m1 max macbook pro 16 inch what i've also still got at the moment and also
i've got the m1 ultra chipset and first of all you can see between the m1 ultra and also the m1 max
it's literally neck and neck basically across the whole m1 family the single core speed is basically
identical across all of the machines it's when we get to multicore things change but compare both
those single core scores to the i7 that we have in the mac mini just look at that it's 59 more
faster the m1 max is and if you look at that score right down the bottom corner that's 60 and that 60
represents the difference between the single core of the m1 ultra against the i7s chipset inside
the mac mini so moving on to multi-core score with geekbench 5 as you can see here at the very bottom
we have the i7 chipset and inside that we have a score of 5483 but moving on to the m1 max and
remember you can get yourself a mac studio with an m1 max inside as well and the difference here is
phenomenal it's a hundred and twenty four percent that's two and a quarter more power than we got on
the mac mini and that's absolutely unbelievable but looking at the m1 ultra score remember now
we've now got 20 cores inside this compared to the likes of the 6 cores that we have inside the
mac mini and the 10 cores that we have in the m1 max you can see we're literally getting double m1
max kind of performance but the crazy thing is is the difference between the m1 ultra and also the
i7 in the mac mini look at that multi-core score there it's 339 percent that's almost three and a
half times more powerful this m1 ultra is than the mac mini and that is absolutely outstanding
performance what you're going to get inside the machine like this even if you've got yourself
the m1 max instead of the m1 ultra even that is absolutely incredible compared to two thousand
dollars and a two thousand dollar machine on both of the mac mini and also the mac studio but the
most interesting chart is about to come and that's to do with graphics power have a look at this so
first of all with the compute metal score at the bottom we have the mac mini and that scores 4553
above that i've actually squeezed in the m1 mac mini and as you can see there it's 304 more faster
and giving us a score of 20 448 that's absolutely crazy in the amount of power that you're getting
inside just an m1 chipset but moving on to m1 max so with the m1 max what's in the likes of
the mac studio and also the macbook pros we're getting a score of 64 302 comparing that to the
m1 mac mini that is an increase of 214 percent was absolutely mind-boggling but then moving on to the
m1 ultra the difference between m1 ultra to the m1 max you can see we actually get a score now of 102
901 and over m1 max that is an increase of 60 percent more power but the crazy thing is is
look at the difference between the mac mini with our intel i7 versus the m1 ultra we're getting a
whopping 2 160 percent more graphics performance compared to the mac mini basically if you can do
any kind of graphical charts or any kind of thing graphical at all do not bother getting
the mac mini this m1 ultra completely storms this away and remember this mac mini was the
top line mac mini only around about four years ago it's absolutely crazy in what we're getting here
with the mac studio even with m1 max and then with m1 ultra as well so overall is the mac
studio worth buying over the intel version of the mac mini well i think you know the answer is to
that straight away i wouldn't even bother touching this mac mini that i have right here personally
i'd actually buy the m1 version instead that's even more powerful than this and it costs now
sometimes on some deals about the quarter of the price of one of these the ways how i spec this up
it's absolutely unbelievable to get yourself one of those m1 chipsets inside it however going back
to the studio and i've got it right here heavy hold it up this is definitely a worthy successor
over the mac mini and definitely if you are a professional out there and you want something
on your desk or something to replace your 27 inch imac you have right now this is definitely worth
looking into however do remember it does have quite a high price tag the m1 max comes in
and that only has the 24 core gpu option at 2 000 and remember for double that price at 4 000 you
actually get the m1 ultra and again that is the binned gpu version it's not actually the highest
spec one that you can actually get with actually 64 cores inside it but personally i would say for
most people it's probably not for you i know it looks amazing i know the power looks really
attractive but to be deadly on this a standard m1 mac mini would probably do the trick for you
in fact i've got an m1 mac mini as i've shown in previous videos of mine and to be honest i
can throw 4k video at it and it handles it really easily it is my backup machine for
what i have with my macbook pro that i got at the end of last year and it's absolutely incredible
to use so definitely for people out there even creators for some of you guys like starting out
say on youtube or something like this definitely do consider that but for your people out there
you guys who do proper photography and lots of video editing and music editing full-on you know
professional way of doing it the mac studio is definitely a machine to consider with that out
of the way guys that is my comparison then of the mac studio versus the top spec mac mini let me
know your thoughts in the comments below and with that guys it's time to wrap up this video so if
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