M5 Pro vs M5 Max - DON'T Be Fooled..

M5 Pro versus M5 Max. Is it really worth spending the extra money? You guys could see the full specs right here. And we also have two different sizes. So, in this video, we're going to compare the difference in sizes, the speakers along with the thermals and realworld performance. Now, I love the size of the 14-in when I am on the go. It is thinner, it is lighter, but it has smaller fans inside. Whereas on the 16-in, I love that large, massive display because when you're doing things like photo and video editing, you just have a lot more room and it's more convenient. The 16-in also has a much larger battery capacity. And I have both of these charged to 100%. So, let's go ahead and unplug them so we could see the difference in battery drain. Now, it's not going to be a perfect comparison because the Max Ship does suck more power. So, that will be interesting to see. The 16-in also has larger speaker enclosures and some bigger drivers. So, let's compare the speakers. Get me out of nowhere. Let me know the difference you guys heard. To me, the biggest difference is that the 16-in has a lot more bass. Honestly, an unbelievable amount of bass. So, it's great for listening to music and especially watching movies. Now, testing the SSD speeds. This one has to come with 2 TB compared to one. And surprisingly uh as far as the read speed, the 1 TBTE ended up faster. Now with the right, the 2 TB was a little bit faster. You can get two TB in both of these and both are insanely quick. Now jumping into CPU performance, what blows my mind is that the CPUs are very similar. And for 200 bucks more, you can actually match the 12 performance cores and six super cores of this crazy expensive uh Max chip. So, let's go ahead and run this. Now, of course, this one has 10 performance cores and five super cores. And looking at the spikes at the center here, you'll see that uh the CPU on the 16-in has more cores, spikes a little bit higher, but it's not that big of a difference. meaning this thing will put out a lot of heat inside of it. We'll take a look at that. And looking at these scores, even the base 14 in has pretty much 26,000 and then we have 29,000 on the unbended CPU. It's about a 13% gain. Now, this performance is crazy even in this one. About double of my daily laptop. And honestly, I would spend that extra 200 bucks if you're getting a 14 inch. Uh because you just have the best CPU available, even though you're not paying anywhere near as much as I paid before. I want to do a few more CPUbased tests. This is Speedometer 3.1. Both are absolutely insane scores. You're not going to get any faster for web browsing than this machine. And this is Figma for web design. And this project is brought to us by 500 Designs, one of the best design and marketing agencies in the US. And honestly, guys, you are not going to see a performance difference when you're working with things like this. Both are insanely fast at loading everything. And now selecting these 12 highresolution web pages and exporting these. The 16-inch Max took 1 minute 20 seconds compared to a minute 21 on this one. And it just blows my mind the CPU performance that you get for the money. And now let's jump into Xcode and see how it does. CPU performance isn't much different. Uh but we do have a RAM difference. Now this is running. And one thing I want to point out is that the fans kicked up on the 14-in but not the 16in. And I'll do a full thermal deep dive a little bit later in this video. And here's the results. We have 99.9 seconds compared to 83.7. That's about 20% faster on this uh Max chip that has the full CPU cores. And honestly, I expect if you buy a 16-in M5 Pro, which comes with the same unbanned CPU cores, your results will be the same. And now, for the first time, you can get 64 gigs of RAM in a Pro chip without having to buy a Max. And here we are in Logic Pro. And I found something very interesting. In the settings with the full unbin CPU, you can select up to 18 cores, 12 being high performance, but on the base 14in, it only allows you to select 14 instead of 15. So, you have one core that is just left out. So, we are going to just leave that in automatic as recommended. And look at the results here. This blew my mind. The 14-in could handle 220 tracks compared to 365 on the 16-in M5 Max. That is a massive difference. Enough talk about the CPUs. Let's jump into graphics. I have Geekbench 6 opened up right here. And what's interesting is the 14-in base model has 16 GPU cores compared to 40 on this full M5 Max. So, let's go ahead and run our metal test. And here are the scores. We have 124,000 compared to 225,000. That's a difference of about 80%. So you are paying double the price here for 80% more performance. Of course, you have uh some more storage, RAM. Uh so it's not just that performance, the larger size, but the question is going to be in these graphics tests, do you really need that much graphics performance? And now let's use the graphics to run an AI benchmark here. And of course, both of these have the new accelerators that make them way faster than the previous chips. Okay, guys, this is weird. We have 31,635 compared to 40,800. That is only 29% faster, but we go from 16 graphics cores up to uh 40. So maybe at some point it's just too many. I was not expecting this. I was expecting more than double. Now, let's use those GPU cores and draw things to create an image from text. I'm using stable diffusion. 25 steps and the same prompt as before. That was super quick on both of them. And the difference isn't that big. 32 seconds compared to 25 seconds on the 40 core. So, about a difference of 28% there. But once again, less than I expected. Let's make it harder. I have a new prompt right here. Higher resolution, more steps, and I want to see if we'll actually get a bigger difference if we have to push it a lot more. So, and right here, I have GPU history opened up. The M5 Pro spiked a lot higher, more often, more graphics usage, uh, compared to the 40 core right here. And even with this tough one, the difference was not as big as I expected. So maybe it's just still too easier. I don't know what you guys let me know. And now let's do a gaming test. 3D Mark Steel Nomad Light in unlimited mode. So resolution won't play a factor. And I have MX Power Gadget opened up. We'll see how much more power those extra graphics cores take. So I saw 33 watts the highest on the M5 Pro. We have oh 80 watts 81 watts 86. Oh my goodness. So we're definitely using a whole GPU here. And the difference is massive. 136.5 frames per second compared to 63.7. That is over double the performance. So that shows if your program like in gaming you're going to use your whole graphics. Uh if it can use it, you are going to get more than double the performance. It just depends on if you can utilize it. Now, I expect all the GPU cores to be used in Blender for 3D rendering. So, this is the party tug test. Let's go ahead and hit render here. Now, this is using the ray tracing cores that are built into here. And we can see 37 watts, almost 40 right there compared to running at 15ish. And even though the M5 Max uses way more power, it gets this done a lot quicker. And that is 15 seconds compared to 35 seconds. So yes, more than twice as fast when all the cores are properly being utilized. And that makes me wonder how the battery life is going to compare with those differences. And we'll find out in just a bit. And now we have Lightroom Classic Photo Editing. This is going to be tougher with 500 raw images that are edited. Let's go ahead and export all of these. And here's where things get interesting. We are using almost 32 gigs of RAM on this 48 gig machine and on this one we're using 18.3 out of 24. Neither are using swap. Uh but that has to make up some difference. Now the other thing I see is our CPU cores are being pinned on all of them if you guys look there. But the graphics difference here in Lightroom, well, the 16 core and the M5 Pro, it's being really utilized. Look at that graph compared to the M5 Max. I mean, it's taking a little breaks. It's doing a little bit of work, taking a break. Now, it's using a little bit more. Taking a break. So, we're not fully utilizing the crazy graphics here. And even the cores, we have the extra cores now. After a while, it's switching between which performance cores it's using here. So, maybe this M5 Pro is the best bang for the buck. Let's see, guys. My mind is blown. We have 4 minutes 45 seconds compared to 5 minutes and 5 seconds. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I don't know about you, but I'm saving my money and going for this machine because Apple decided to make the CPU so overpowered in the M5 Pro, even the bend model. This is insane, even with that RAM difference. And now, let's get into video editing. And I have to be honest, for regular video editors, even those working with ProRes and even RAW footage, both of these machines are kind of overkill now. They do such an incredible job compared to just a few years ago. I'm gonna export this five minute project and it has effects and full grain and stuff, but it's just so easy for it. Now, the one thing is the M5s do have newer encoders. So, let's watch this export speed. And with the Max chip, you have doubled the encoders. So, let's see the performance difference. And the results are 51 seconds compared to a minute and 42 seconds. So, uh, yeah, way faster exports, but even with this M5 Pro, you don't have enough time to go get a coffee before your render is done. And now, let's open up this 8K project with a bunch of raw footage in it with effects. And I'm going to render the timeline. This used to be very, very difficult, and you'd want to max shift for it. And here you can see it is blazing through this. That is actually pretty impressive. if you need to render everything in your timeline insanely fast and we have 39 seconds compared to 54 seconds in this 5minute timeline that is 8K. So yeah the M5 Max if you can utilize the graphics and all the encoders decoders you will get that extra performance but the question is are you pushing your projects to the extreme to need this extra power? In the past, you had to spend a lot of money. Nowadays, I believe a lot of people don't anymore. And now I have Cinebench, the latest version opened up right here. We're going to test the maximum CPU performance along with throttling between these two sizes. So, let's go ahead and run this test. And I have MX Power Gadget opened up right here. So, the Unbin chip does use more power. You guys can see 75 77 watts. uh the difference between them. Now, you can spend the 200 bucks, get it in this machine or get the base 16 inch. And I actually heard the fans sooner on the 16-in because of the extra power. That extra cooling allows for higher clock speeds, 3.65, 3.7 on the performance compared to 2.8. And let's take a look at our thermal cam. You guys can see those hot spots from the fans. And I'm seeing 42° was the highest on the M5 Pro. Let's look at the max here. Little bit cooler at the chip itself. 39 uh just because it has that extra cooling to get the heat out. And interestingly, the 14-in does not have its left side fan maxed out, whereas the 16-in with the full unbended 18 CPU cores does have it on both. So, we have a little bit of overhead here left, but I think this is the one CPU test where if you spend 200 bucks on the 14-in, uh, you might not get the full performance as having it in a 16-in just because it's a full CPU load for a long time. Looks like we have 7,15 on the 14inch Bend M5 Pro and on the M5 Max we have 9,262 points. That is a difference of about 30% which is impressive given we're going from 15 to 18 cores and better cooling capacity as well. But for most real world use cases, you're not maxing it out like this. And in general for 3D, you want to use more graphics. And now, what about battery life? We have a much smaller battery on the 14-in. And we finished off with 21% battery life. We've had about 3 hours of heavyduty testing cut down in this video. 21%. How about the 16-in with a much bigger battery, but we also have more power being used. We are at 7% battery. Wow. I expected not as big of a difference, but this thing likes to suck a lot of power. And what happened in this video is something that I don't think has happened ever before with my testing. Is the M5 Max worth it? Well, looking back at all of the different tests, a lot of them the difference was not very big at all. Some that were even surprising. Now, in a few cases when you can max out the GPU consistently, we did see a big improvement. If that's something that you do and you have the extra money to throw at your machine, get that. But unlike ever before, the difference for most people between these machines, it's negligible in the real world. And that means that if you bought a Mac ship in the past, my daily is still an M2 Max that I can take with me. Doesn't have to stay in the studio. I can now save a lot of money this time around. Get a M5 Pro and it will still beat out my machine in almost everything that I would do. So, you could choose your size if you want the bigger screen or not, but you can buy an M5 Pro and have an incredible machine. Uh, or you can get a 14-in with bend, spending a couple hundred bucks if you want the unbend. I don't know, guys. This is u impressive. I guess the positive side of it how powerful the M5 Pro now is and with all the different accelerators, the AI stuff. Um, it just is an incredible machine. A killer bang for the buck. You guys let me know your thoughts down in the comments section below. I want to hear them. Click that circle above to see more videos. If you want to see M5 Max compared to all the previous Max chips, check out that video right over there.

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