M5 Max vs M1/M2/M3/M4 Max - MONSTER Performance!

How much faster is Apple's new M5 [music] Max compared to the M1 Max, M2 Max, M3 Max, and M4 Max? Because we have all of them here in the office, and we're going to run a ton of performance testing to find out. Here are all the specs and prices so you can take a look and compare. And since I can't fit all five on the desk, cuz they're pretty huge, I have my own personal M1 Max, the M4 Max, and the M5 Max. And yes, they're all charged up to 100% with high power mode because we are also doing a battery [music] life test. Keep in mind that the battery health on my old 2021 M1 Max is at 84%. So, it's going to be worse in terms of battery. Both of these are at 100. Now, all of these are updated to Mac OS Tahoe 26.31. And yes, the M2 Max and the M3 Max, those are updated. We ran all the benchmarks fresh [music] for this. So, with that said, let's jump right into the SSD speed test. By the way, both of these have 1 TB SSDs compared to two terabytes, which you're now forced to get 2 terb on this machine. We have PCI Express 5.0 SSDs on the M5 Max. And would you believe it, we have essentially two times faster SSDs on this new model right here. That is insane to see over 12,000 read and write. And now, let's get into CPU performance with Geekbench 6. Right here you can see the device info. It's crazy to see the M1 Max used to top out at 3.22 GHz. Now we have 4.51 on the M4 Max, 4.61 on M5 Max. By the way, all of these Max chips, they are the highest SKs with the highest amount of CPU and GPU core counts, which actually makes you get 48 gigs of RAM on the M4 Max and the M5 Max. also the M3 Max, while the M1 and M2 Max, you could get them with 32, [music] which is part of the reason why it's so expensive to get a maxed out M5 Max these days. So, let's run the CPU benchmark. And bam, we have our scores. And as far as single core, you can see a huge jump from the M3 Max to the M4 Max. That's because the M4 Max supports SME2, which gave it a huge boost in single core. And the M5 Max hitting 4,300 is absolutely bonkers. I mean, it's the fastest core in the world. And then as far as multi-core, you can see a huge boost with the M3 Max because it went from a 12 core to a 16 core chip. And now we have 18 cores on the M5 Max, which they did remove six of their performance cores and rebranded them as super cores. And they ditched the old 4E cores and replaced those with 12 brand new mid cores, which they're now calling performance cores. So, we're still seeing a nice 10% improvement here, even despite getting rid of six or half of those super or performance cores. This is speedometer 3.1. It's a web browser benchmark. 59 on the M5 Max. That is the fastest in the world. That's 56% faster than the M1 Max. That's actually going to be felt in realworld browsing, just feeling really snappy. And now, let's get into web design with Figma. This is a project provided to us by 500 Designs, one of the best design and marketing agencies in the US. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to export 12 of these pages. All right, they're finished. And we went from 2 minutes and 12 on the M1 Max to a minute 21 on the M5 Max. That's almost a whole minute shaved off if you still have the M1 Max and you're upgrading. By the way, the new MacBook Neo with 8 gigs of RAM actually outperformed the M1 Max, which is just crazy to think about. And now, let's get into some graphics performance with Geekbench 6. This is going to be the Metal Benchmark. And dang, guys, look at that. We went from 123,000 to 230. That's 87% gain in essentially 4 and 1/2 years. And what about gaming performance? Well, this is 3D MarkX Steel Nomad Light. Let's run it. And holy smokes, guys. 137 FPS on M5 Max. That is exactly 2 and 12 times higher FPS than the M1 Max. That is mind-blowing considering the fact that Geekbench Metal was only 86% faster. We're getting 2.5 times higher gaming performance. And now I want to test Solar Bay Extreme on all of these because that basically tests rateracing. 122.5 FPS compared to 10.6. That's 11.6 times faster or higher FPS in this test because of ray tracing. Yes, that's because the M1 Max did not have ray tracing cores. Those only showed up with the M3 Max, which is why you're seeing such a big jump. [music] This is absolutely insane. But whoa, even from M4 Max to M5 Max itself with the same 40 cores, we're getting almost 50% higher FPS. And now let's get into Blender 3D rendering. This is the party tug project. By the way, these are all updated to the new Blender 5.1. Essentially 13 seconds on the M5 Max compared to a minute and 28 on the M1 Max. That's like 6 and 1/2 times faster. So, if you still have an M1 Max and you're doing Blender 3D rendering, I don't know why you're not upgrading because this performance is insane. Even compared to just the M4 Max, that's a huge improvement. But now, it's time to kick it up a notch. This is the swamp project by a third party developer. I think Lasha 3D. I'll leave the link below if you want to run it yourself. And wow, it's finally done. That took forever. 25 minutes 49 seconds on the M1 Max. 3 minutes and 14 seconds on the M5 [music] Max. That's over 8 times faster thanks to the ray tracing cores. And holy moly did that drain the battery on the M1 Max for taking that long. And now let's get into some AI testing. This is Geekbench AI. I'm gonna run the CoreML on the GPU. And dang, that's a massive improvement on the M5 Max compared to the M4 Max. [music] 66% faster, but compared to the M1 Max, three times higher quantized score. And now let's get into draw things text to image AI generation. I have the Flux point2 Klein model. I have 50 steps on all of them. The same exact seed. Let's go. All right, guys. These two are already finished, but the M1 Max is still going. It looks like the battery is already at 7%. We're getting dangerously close to the area where it starts to throttle the performance. So, I have to plug it in to make sure it finishes. This little bit of an update. We have 43% on the M4 Max, 53% on the M5 Max. And there you go. The M1 Max is finally done. That took 8 minutes for this test compared to 2 minutes 42 seconds on the M5 Max. That's like three times faster. And even compared to the M4 Max, this thing took like 4 and 1/2 minutes. So huge improvement for AI. And don't worry programmers, yes, we're doing the Xcode benchmark. This is the 26.3 version. This is a tougher test compared to the previous version. So, if you're comparing it to your system, you have to update. And bam, the test is finished. It took 176 seconds on the M1 Max. And both of these are over twice as fast. Took 84 seconds on the M4 Max, 82 [music] if you round up on the M5 Max. So, between these two, barely any difference whatsoever. Maybe that's due to the super core and midcore mixture. Maybe they're not as optimized just yet. Who knows? And now let's get into music production with Logic Pro. This is the new Logic Pro benchmark. Basically testing how many tracks you can play at the same time without overloading. This is not a RAMbased plug-in test. Just a full CPU load test. You can see right here I have 10 cores, eight high performance on the M1 Max. I have 16 with 12 high performance. But here on the M5 Max, it is not recognizing the new six super cores properly. [music] Maybe it's not updated. So, we've previously had to test it on the automatic mode to get all of them to fire up. Let's hit play on all of them. And you'll notice that while all of these are maxing out all the PC cores full stop, for some reason on the M5 Max, the super cores were not being used all the way. And look at this mixture of the midcores not properly used. This core right here wasn't even used at all. So, I feel like there's some sort of glitch or issue with the optimization confusing the super cores and the midcores and everything. It needs to get updated. Looks like it just finished 365 tracks, guys. That's all it could run. So, worst performance so far compared to the M4 Max. Maybe it's going to get updated to have better utilization, but for right now, it's worse than the M4 Max. And now we got photo editing in Lightroom Classic. Here we're going to export 50 42 megapixel raw images. Same settings on all of them. And [music] export. And bam. That was very quick. 34 seconds on the M1 Max, 19 on M4 Max, and 18 seconds on M5 Max. Only 1 second faster. [music] That once again could be due to the optimization issues because in our previous video we found that the super cores were also not being utilized and optimized properly. So now let's take it up a notch and make that 500 photos for exporting. Oh man, the M4 Max just won first and this one has a way to go. And finally, the M1 Max finished took 9 minutes and 19 seconds compared to 3 minutes and 3 seconds on the M4 Max. That's three times faster. And 4 minutes and 51 on the new M5 Max. Yes, there is definitely something going wrong with the optimization of those new super cores and the new midcores, which are called performance cores. The problem is, who knows how long it's going to take for Adobe to optimize everything. And now, let's move on to video editing. But first, we got to look at the battery life because this thing's starting to get quite low. It's been just over 4 hours of heavyduty testing on all of these and the M4 Max has 9% battery left compared to 18% on the M5 Max. Wow, would you look at that? [music] It actually has the best battery life even though it uses the highest power. Probably because it finished a lot of those tasks so much sooner. Obviously, the M1 Max is disqualified because it died like long ago. So, now I might as well just plug these bad boys in. And now, let's get into video editing in Final Cut Pro. It's a brand new day. So, right here we have a 5minute HVC test where we're going to export it to find out the speed of the encoders. Wow, that is insanely fast, guys. 51 seconds on the M5 Max, 60 seconds on the M4 Max, and a minute and 9 seconds on the M1 Max. The crazy thing is that the encoders for H.264 and HBC stayed the same from the M1 to the M3 Max. They got upgraded to be faster on this one and then even faster with the M5 Max. This is crazy. And now, let's do something a little bit more heavyduty. This is 8K ProRes RAW. You can see it playing back on all of them basically very smoothly. Even the M1 Max, I'm not seeing any drop frames running at 24 fps. They're all set to better quality, not better performance. And now let's export these to 4K 10 bit HVC. And there you go. They're all done. It took 3 minutes and 3 seconds on the M1 Max, took a minute 42 on the M4 Max, and [music] a minute and 44 on the M5 Max. Maybe there's something going on with the optimization of the super and midcourse. And now for the final test, we have Cinebench 2026. We're going to run the 10minute throttling test. And yes, we have the thermal cam ready to go. All right, let's look at the temps. Holy smokies. I saw 77 watts here, basically 60 watts here, and 30 watts. Crazy thing, I could already see the wattage throttling on this guy. We're already at 101° C compared to 96 compared to 93. This M5 Max is insanely hot. Just look at that throttle. It's been about 9 minutes. Let's look at the temps over here on the M1 Max. I'm looking here near the center. The hottest I'm seeing is about 42° C. You can see both fans expelling a lot of that heat. 41° C on the M4 Max. And then over to the M5 Max. 42. Almost 43. We got the scores. And holy smokes is the M5 Max fast. It's 2.8 times faster than the M1 Max. And compared to the M4 Max, it's 21% faster. That is all thanks to the brand new setup with the super cores and the midcores, which are so much more valuable than those four ecores that were honestly kind of wasted. So, now after all of that testing, what is the final conclusion? Well, you guys saw the battery life results a little bit earlier. The M5 Max [music] had the best battery life thanks to it performing so many of those tasks faster than the M4 Max. The M1 Max just died so quickly because of that Blender swamp render. But in terms of all of these performance tests, by the way, please subscribe if you guys appreciate all the effort. The M5 Max is an absolute beast. And it blows my mind that Apple is able to do this each and every year with so much faster performance than the M1 Max in just 4 and 1/2 years. And even compared to the M4 Max, [music] you guys saw all of those tests. The only problem was that Apple added the new super cores and midcores, which some [music] apps don't recognize properly yet, so they're not optimized. We have to wait for those to get optimized. Then it for sure is going to be a lot better. But if you're still on the M1 Max or the M2 Max, it's probably time for you to upgrade because the advantages and performance gains are massive with the new M5 Max. The only problem is that later this year, we're expecting the M6 Max to come in the brand new redesigned MacBook Pro with the dynamic island, [music] the tandem OLED touchscreen fully redesigned, thinner. But if you need one right now, the M5 Max is an absolute beast. [music] Apple, I don't know how you do it, but you do it every year. This is amazing. So, hopefully you guys enjoy this video. Let me know your thoughts down in the comments section below. Definitely [music] subscribe above for more videos like this one, and check out our MacBook Neo versus $600 Windows laptop video right there. Thanks for watching, guys. We'll see you in the next

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