So we've had the likes of the 14 inch and the 16 inch macbook pro for a couple of weeks now
and one of the questions iIkeep getting asked is what is battery life like with
the m1 pro and the m1 max and comparing that to the standard m1 chipset well today
we're going to do a comparison of the m1 m1 pro and m1 max in a battery drain test.
Hi it's Matt here, so that's right today i'm going to be doing a battery drain test on these three
macbooks that you see right in front of me now straight away the first thing i want to say is
i've never actually ever done a battery test like this or a battery drain test like this so this is
an ultimate first for me so you know maybe the video quality is not gonna be the best of what
you can find with other youtubes out there who have done like say iphone battery drain test but
i'm gonna give it my best shot and hopefully in the future i can probably do a better job of it
but the main thing is today we've got these three macbook pros right in front of me and
we're gonna do a battery drain test from 100 battery all the way down to zero percent
now the three models i have right in front of me first of all we have this one here and it
is a 13 inch macbook pro inside this we have the standard m1 chipset with 8 gigabytes of ram then
moving on to this macbook pro here in the middle this is the 14 inch macbook pro and inside this
we have the m1 pro inside it and inside this we have the kind of standard kind of m1 pro
chipset that was advertised by apple this is the 10 core model with the 16 core gpu inside
yes there is a baseline model of the eight core and also you can get say the 14 core gpu as the
cheapest one and i'll talk about that a little bit further on but finally what we have inside
this macbook pro the 16 inch one we have the m1 max inside this and inside the m1 max
we have the 32 core gpu the standard 10 core cpu what comes with all m1 maxes and also at the same
time this is equipped with 32 gigabytes of ram now one of the first questions you're probably going
to ask is well these are not the baseline models yes that is true and also these are not also the
highest tier models they're a bit of a mix and i'm going to admit it is to be honest with this but if
you actually had to look on apple's website and in fact if we actually picked all the different
options out there so say starting with the m1 macbook pro there were two choices you could pick
the m1 chipset with 16 gigabytes or 32 gigabytes of ram then you've got all the storage options
then with this one here the 14 inch macbook pro you've got that eight core m1 pro and you've also
got that 14 core uh gpu then the next tier up is the same thing again with the eight cores and then
you've also got the 16 core gpu and i'm not alone you can also pick between 16 gigabytes of ram
32 gigabytes around you could take the 10 core option you could also pick the option that has
more cpu or gpu cores inside it you could put the m1 max inside this with the 24 cores the 32 cores
i could go on in total there's going to be 18 variants with all the different ram options across
all three of these models and to be honest i can't afford 18 models so we've got these
three models that you've got right here but yeah do check it out that there is actually 18 models
you can pick from from the m1 standard 13-inch all the way up to the maximum m1 max with 64
gigabytes of ram inside it so it's absolutely crazy lots of different options but just to say
again we've got the m1 with 8 gigabytes of ram we've got a 10 core m1 pro with 16 core gpu with
16 gigabytes of ram and then finally what we have here is the m1 max with 10 core cpu 32 core gpu
and 32 gigabytes of ram so enough rambling on about the specs of these different machines
what are the tests that we're going to do today well today i'm going to chuck a load of kind of
different type of tests out there for all three of these macbook pros some of these tests are
going to be really really light like watching a netflix video and also some of them are going to
be kind of medium sort of tasks so in the sense of basically just doing a very small benchmark
or for example just having a couple of basic apps open like word powerpoint a couple of safari tasks
open at one time and some of them are going to be more extreme like running a 3d benchmark on this
i'm going to try and spread it out the best i can and like i said this is the first time i'm doing
this so you know let me know in the comments below of what kind of other options you'd like to see
maybe in future videos when i do battery drain tests but just to let you guys know i have set
all of these macbook pros at 85 percent uh screen brightness and i've done that using our favorite s
lady or s man i'm not gonna say cuz i'll probably trigger all your phones and trigger all these
macbook pros off so i've done that and i've also set the same setting for the sound to all
be at 85 percent now 85 might be a little bit more higher than usual but to be deadly honest
i thought this would be a best good benchmark to get these kind of gauges on for all three of these
macbook pros and plus it's easier for you guys to see what's going on on these actual screens with
the camera that i'm using right here so without further ado let's get started with the tests
and basically all these three of these macbook pros are all going to be charged up to 100 what
i'm going to show you and we're going to basically do kind of a time lapse or speed run for all the
tests and i'm also going to time how long these macbook pros take to drain from 100 to zero so
on the very left we have the macbook pro with the m1 in the middle we have the 14 inch macbook pro
and this one has the m1 pro inside it and then on the far right we have the 16 inch macbook pro and
this inside it has that m1 max chipset so i've got final cut pro open and today i'm going to be
exporting a one hour video in h2644 and this is on the youtube setting built into final cut pro
what i've done is i've looped my windows 11 video this is on my channel at the moment up to one hour
long and we're going to start this off so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to start all these
macbook pros off by doing the export and start the timer there that's on an iphone xr that i have and
yeah we're going to get this beginning and we're going to leave this run so we're going to see how
long it takes to export on this so most likely i'm quite confident that the 16 inch macbook pro with
that m1 max chipset inside it is probably going to finish off first then most likely i'm going
to say my money's on the m1 pro and then after this my money is on that 13-inch macbook pro
so i'm going to let this run now and i'm going to speed it up a little bit to see which ends first
and sure enough the first actual macbook pro to finish the full export is the m1 max followed
by the m1 pro and then finally by the m1 macbook pro so let's check out the actual battery at this
point so the 16-inch macbook pro has a battery of 92 percent then the 14-inch macbook pro has
a battery of 89 and then finally the 13-inch m1 macbook pro has a battery of 77 so next of all
after doing this i'm just going to close down the final cut pro on these machines i'm actually going
to run some benchmarks tests on these machines so what i'm actually going to do is i'm going to
run a geekbench 5 first of all and we're going to do a single core multi-core kind of test on this
so i'm just going to get this started and all three of the machines at the same time
let me just get those all open and we're going to begin that and then after this we're going
to do a cinebench benchmark on the single core and also the multi-core and then finally i'm
going to run another geekbench benchmark again and this is going to be for the actual compute score
the metal compute score so i'm just going to get these started on all three of these machines so
that was the first geekbench was completed so i'm just running now
the cinebench and this is on the single core to begin with and we'll let this just run
and now that's completed i'm going to start the multi-core next of all
when that is complete as well this should be a little bit more quicker
now that's completed i'm going back to geekbench again and this time i'm going to run the compute
score on metal and let that complete and now that is all completed let's now check out what
the battery life is like so on the 16-inch macbook pro the battery is coming in at 77
on the 14-inch macbook pro it's at 70 and then the 13-inch macbook pro it's now at 62 percent
so the next test i'm going to do is i'm going to open up the likes of word
powerpoint i'm also going to open up safari and i'm going to open up five different tabs
all at the same time and what i'm going to do is i'm going to leave this run for an hour because i
know a lot of you guys out there for example do a lot of sort of word processing presentations
browsing the internet all at the same time so this will be a good test to see how well the batteries
cope with this so i'm just going to get everything open on these free machines
and then basically let it all run for one hour and we'll see what the results are with the battery
after this so while this battery drain test is continuing on i thought today i would talk about
the giveaway that we're doing on this channel and it is for this it's for an iphone 13 pro max
sierra blue 128 gigabyte model and i'm going to be giving it away to one lucky subscriber when we get
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and spammers who are basically impersonating us by putting our profile pictures and things
and basically saying you've won a prize this is not me at all and a lot of their names are very
similar to mine or they're saying what's at me this is not me like i said what i will be doing
i'll be announcing the winner via a video well guys let's get back to the battery drain test
so after an hour running this test and we're now at over 2 hours 20 minutes into all of this
drain test we now have the battery results so with the 16 inch macbook pro it's at 68
battery the 14 inch is just behind this at 59 and then the 13 inch is just behind that at 54 battery
so with this out of the way what i decided to do was run my next test now my next test is actually
running a netflix video or actually a movie and that movie is of our favorite uh sponge who lives
under the scene with his best friend of a starfish so i decided to run the first movie of this and
this clocks up a total of 1 hour 28 minutes so basically an hour and a half so let this run on
all three of the macbook pros i decided this was a fair test because a lot of you guys out there
use your macbook pros to watch videos like for example watching your favorite youtuber on youtube
and that's a massive hint that if you're enjoying this video so far please do press the like button
so by the time this video had finished we were just under four hours into our tests
and the results are like this at the moment so with the actual 16-inch macbook pro the
actual battery is at 53 percent with the 14 inch macbook pro with that m1 pro chipset inside it
at 43 and then the 13 inch macbook pro with that m1 chipset inside it is at 39
so after this i decided that i would do my next test and to be honest this is the last test i'm
going to run i decided i was going to run unigine heaven on this and this is another 3d benchmarking
test and i'm going to run this all the way until the macbook pros basically completely deplete or
drain their battery to zero percent now i could run multiple games on these uh macbook pros
but i decided to do a benchmarking test instead mainly the reason is because if you've got a
steam account for example that you can't actually play the same game at the same time on all three
of these models unless you've got three separate accounts it just won't allow you to do it it just
does remote play so i decided this was probably the best way to do it was actually run the same
sort of loop of a 3d engine and then basically we would get the same results because playing a game
you'd play it very differently on each level even though if you tried your best to keep to the same
sort of measures so after this i ran this all the way up to four hours 15 minutes because i
had a feeling that some of these batteries are probably going to die around about five hours
possibly so i let it run up to this and then i did a battery check so at this point here the 16 inch
macbook pro only had 20 battery left and then the 14 inch macbook pro only had four percent
battery left it was on its last legs and then also the 13 inch macbook pros just behind that with
nine percent battery so i let this continue run on for a little bit further to see if one of
the actual models would die out but then i spoke too soon and sure enough the 14 inch macbook pro
after a total of four hours 51 minutes it actually did die and that was a really really good run from
this macbook pro based on knowing that the 13-inch macbook pro with that m1 chipset wasn't far behind
i ran this up to five hours to see if the battery would die at this point and luckily
the macbook pro did manage to get over the actual five hour mark so that is really really impressive
but very very shortly after this time i am sad to say that the 13-inch macbook pro tried its
ultimate best and decided to shut down but it's super impressive to get a five hour one
minute or almost two minutes battery life out of his macbook pro so with one macbook pro left
standing i decided to check the battery on the 16 16-inch macbook pro and at this point it was
at nine percent battery so its juice was running out as well but it was doing a very very good run
so speeding up this video let's see when it died so it finally gave us its end of battery life
at a grand total of 5 hours and 16 minutes and 15 seconds what is really really impressive so yeah
that was all three of the macbook pro's batteries depleted from 100 all the way down to naught in
doing a load of different tests so the end results were this the 14 inch macbook pro came in at a
total of four hours 51 minutes and just shortly after that was the 13-inch macbook pro at five
hours and one minute finally we had the 16-inch macbook pro with that m1 max chipset inside it
at 5 hours 16 minutes so as you can see that test took a long time and to be honest i was up beyond
midnight doing these tests on these macbook pros but the results are very very clear the m1 macbook
pro definitely has a really really good battery in it and it came ahead of this 14-inch macbook
pro that we have right here only around about 10 minutes or so so it's not that much in it and
remember this is the 10 core cpu what's inside this macbook pro but you know in comparison of
battery life they are very very similar and then not long after it wasn't that far after
i think it was about 15 minutes later after the m1 died it was when the m1 max 16 inch had died
basically all three models died their battery life within around half an hour of each other
in total so really no matter what macbook you're gonna pick you're gonna get around the same sort
of battery life if you did the kind of same test that i did here now again i could say you could
argue that my tests could be unfair but not real life but it was the best test i could think of
off the spot and like i said write down in the comments below if you think of any other tests
but my own conclusion is this i don't think you can go wrong with whatever macbook you pick like
i said they all finished within half an hour of each other was absolutely amazing and to be deadly
honest if you did say some more lighter tasks say on all three of these machines maybe this macbook
pro will come first and maybe for example these two macbook pros would have died far sooner i know
this one did but like i said they could have died maybe an hour before that because they've got less
efficiency cause so you have got that plus also it could be the other way around if you were doing
loads of sort of 3d kind of rendering and kind of loads of bits and pieces like this maybe these two
macbook pros will die before this one here but the end conclusion like i said there's not much in it
so you can't go wrong in whatever macbook pro that you pick after seeing this battery drain test well
guys it's also time to wrap up this video so if you have enjoyed watching it please do press that
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