apple's new macbooks have smoked the intel models they've replaced they've
smoked windows ultrabooks that cost even more money they've smoked high-end rtx
graphics windows machines and now it is time to put it head-to-head against my
15 000 mac pro and don't worry we'll make this as quick as possible to make
it the least painful for this mac pro and for myself for buying this mac pro a
couple years ago now here are the specs side by side so you guys could check
them out this mac pro is 15 g's with 192 gigs of ram the afterburner card the 12
core processor and the vega 2 graphics with 32 gigabytes of memory compared to
3 500 for this m1 max macbook now this thing right here also comes with
speakers it comes with the 1080p webcam it comes with microphones it comes with
this amazing display whereas this thing well it doesn't come with any of that so
that's another at least couple grand but up to about seven grand if you want
apple's pro display xdr and some nicer speakers that's a huge price difference
now let's just get right into the carnage here we're gonna start out with
geekbench five the single core score obviously gets killed by this macbook
it's way more powerful and then on the multi-core side surprisingly this
macbook also defeats it and that is on battery power now when we jump into
metal the graphics test my vega 2 here scores over a hundred thousand compared
to 68 000 so it's 47 more raw graphics performance it has 32 gigs of memory
just for the graphics card where i have 32 gigs for the whole system right over
here and of course it draws a lot more power well now we'll see what this
actually means in real world results both in photo editing and video editing
in xcode and other real world tests now for simple tasks like web browsing the
macbook destroys the mac pro and it's funny to say hey it's faster at web
browsing but you do notice it every time
you're on one system and the other one is just so quick at loading web pages
stuff does actually load slower even if your internet is fast on the mac pro now
that might also be because the ssds are so fast on this system the write speed
is pretty much twice as fast and the read speed is approaching that as well
even though we do have one terabyte on both of these machines now if we
completely max out the systems with cinebench's 3d rendering benchmark
you guys will see that the mac pro does actually have more overall performance
we're seeing about 15 more there
now that is pretty impressive so the overall cpu power is still higher even
for the 12 core model now if we take a look how much power that uses i was
shocked to see that the mac pro drawed 218
watts at peak for the cpu compared to our macbook which maxes out at 30 watts
that is over seven times the amount of power needed and of course the macbook
comes with the battery so you can use it on the go now the next thing that
absolutely shocked me was the performance when gaming when the mac pro
came out it was the fastest gaming machine of course it was super expensive
but now with this off-screen test that is sphere the macbook's 32 core graphics
get 51 percent more frames per second and that's on battery power that is
incredible the efficiency now all we need is some good mac games there's a
few that are optimized and perform extremely well but we need more now for
those of you guys that work with music this is one area where the mac pro
absolutely destroyed previous macbooks and this time with these new chips the
macbooks get very close but the macro is still 25 percent more
powerful it can handle a lot more tracks more plug-ins
very very great results for the macbook more than good enough for anybody and
this is the new logic benchmark you guys can search it up find out exactly what
is being tested and stacked there and for those of you guys that work with
xcode my goodness this performance is insane
we have maximum hermenco's benchmark that's a big compile and our mac pro
this thing took 125 seconds it was super fast when we got it
the macbooks only took 94
seconds to compile it that is insane 33 faster of course on battery power and
it's crazy how is it this fast one has way less ram cp performance is 15 lower
if you're maxing out the cpu which it is well it's just optimizations with the
unified memory architecture that's working insanely fast now fun fact for
you guys if you buy the most expensive mac pro which will probably be at least
20 grand without upgrading graphics or other stuff
well that one if with a good amount of ram that one takes 90 seconds that is
the fastest system for xcode this macbook 3 500 bucks you can walk an
apple and buy it this thing takes 94 seconds that just blows my mind now for
those of you guys that edit photos the mac pro was insane because of a six
channel memory a lot of ram that really sped things up as far as photo editing
they're both super smooth but when it comes to export the mac pro does still
win it took a one minute 11 seconds and used 46 gigs of ram when exporting that
so more than the system has together compared to 121 so it's close um the
previous macbook would be like three times longer than the mac pro so it's
getting close but it does still get beaten now i would not pay 15 grand or
maybe 10 grand in order to be slightly faster and then for those of you guys
are making previews same thing the mac pro is faster in this case it's
actually quite a bit faster i'm not really sure why maybe previews uses more
ram now on the flip side some of you guys asked us to test out affinity and
we did i ran their built-in benchmark and the mac pro got killed they have a
combined score here and for the cpu the macbook was eight percent faster but for
the graphics it literally was over three times faster i don't know what's going
on i don't know how they optimized this program for these machines
but the performance for some of these tests that they they run in this
benchmark it's insane so for those who get to buy a macbook definitely check
out affinity photo instead of like photoshop there's a lot of great
alternatives that are much better optimized and now let's get into 3d
rendering this is something we didn't test last year and i thought man with
this graphics card 32 gigs of memory in here it should kill it right well take a
look at this for the splashbox benchmark the macbook is 62
faster this is insane to me i don't know is it the memory that's
making it much faster all that crazy band with 400 gigabytes per second i
don't know what it is you guys let me know if you work with this it's using
the ev engine here and then when you switch to the party tug file you can
download and test yourself this is over five times faster this is
using mostly the graphics it's not optimized for metal yet but it's so much
faster on the macbook it is just insanely fast on these new macbooks and
then if we switch over to the cycles engine which takes a lot longer in
general it is higher quality especially if you
want to do super detailed lighting here the mac pro does be out by a couple
minutes about 25 faster
full 100 cpu so that is actually a very impressive performance gain and now
let's switch over to what we do all the time every day and that is video editing
and guys i just want to say i still had hopes for this mac pro
i thought that in some of these tests it's gonna do a great job because it has
lots of raw horsepower but i was wrong
jumping into hevc stabilization the macbook was twice as fast it has really
fast decoders
really good graphics performance and the mac pro is just limited with this old
amd graphics card even the newest 6900x graphics cards those have the same
encoders and decoders they're still limited by that now when we go to export
you see the mac pro was fast but the macbook killed it a minute and 19
seconds for a five minute color graded project
insane performance and i was like alright well we're not going to do any
more easy stuff right this has fast decoders and encoders let's take it a
step up and switch to canon r5 422 10-bit footage this stuff right here is
really tough a lot of new cameras are coming with this codec because it's very
high quality and the macbook plays it back perfectly where the mac pro is a
stuttering mess because it doesn't have the right hardware to work with this and
then because of this exporting five minute color graded project is about
four times slower on the mac pro than the macbook the macbook just kills it
over four times faster actually all right let's just go with something
really tough i don't want to make this video editing section too long let's go
straight to the ak canon raw not real light canon raw tough
footage you need cpu performance which you know under 100 load it's faster here
you need gpu performance it's maxing everything out and look at the results
here guys the macbook exported more than two minutes faster i was not expecting
that i was like what's going on it should be being killed right and so i
thought about well i'm exporting the prores this is a high quality video file
i usually go to prores for something high-end like this
and maybe i'll just switch it to h.265 because we have prores encoders with
this system with the afterburner you still don't have those encoders we'll
talk about that in just a bit and i was shocked to see that even then it still
beat out the mac pro with h.265 and for this crazy test it still kills it i'm
like all right well what can we do you know this is using both the cpu and gpu
what if we need a codec that really pushes that over 100 000 score for the
metal for the graphics well that's 8k redraw um now as far as playback we do
see a difference um pretty much the mac pro is almost perfect it's not perfect
at playing this back at full quality uh the macbook it drops about four frames
per second more so it's definitely usable especially if you go into better
performance is going to be perfect um all right so this can't handle it let's
go ahead and export this project let's see what happens
well i was shocked to see that once again it beat it out only by two seconds
this time but it's still beat it out i'm like how the heck is this happening and
i'm like all right let's just go to h.264 this time those are slower
encoders h.i.265 is fast it's still beaded out what is going on
i i'm just i'm just flabbergasted at what is happening in this comparison
this is where the mac pro should have been winning and it's not and now let's
flip to pro res raw the macbook pro now has prores raw encoders and decors built
in whereas for this mac pro it's two thousand dollars for the afterburner
card and of course you guys saw the cpu performance gpu performance all of that
so let's see what happens well with a five minute 4k graded project
the macbook smokes the mac pro a minute and four seconds compared to a minute
45. now that's a minute 45 with that 2 000 add-in card if you don't use the
add-in card it's two minutes and 45 seconds so an even bigger difference
almost three times longer which is crazy and i'm like all right we we just got we
let's set this up let's go to 8k progress raw and we're going to export
to pro res 444 xq
this five minute project is like 215 gigabytes in size when you export it
huge file sizes and well here's what happened the macbook was more than twice
as fast at exporting this five minute graded 8k project
and that's with the afterburner without the after burner the mac pro takes 20
minutes so it's almost four times faster and that is when i realized well
this mac pro i had a hard time selling it before
i keep getting people reaching out to want to buy it and then they look into
the new m1 systems n1 pro and max they watch these videos that i make right
here and they literally say hey sorry i'm buying a new macbook hey sorry i'm
going to buy this machine over here i'm buying an imac mac mini and now these
new macbooks it is just literally i had three people
that were serious about buying it and then they were hey sorry i saw videos
blah blah blah i'm not gonna buy them like hey i don't blame you it sucks for
me uh because it's a very expensive machine and i don't really need it i
don't want to throw it out like you guys might have saw in the thumbnail
but at this point even for the toughest tests
everything we do
the macbook beats it in a 3500 package with the display speakers webcam battery
it's portable it is just absolutely insane what apple has done
and it just it is just doing an amazing amazing job
so good job apple it's great that we can get such killer performance for the
money even the mac pro is now for most tasks uh taken out unless you want to
buy like the 28 core you know it's over 50 g's if you fully spec it out in that
case of course if you want to have four graphics cards in there uh if you need
one and a half terabytes of ram if you need pci slots this thing still has a
place um so there's definitely people that still need to buy this but judging
on who's been reaching out to buy for me those people are few and far between all
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