Looking at the benchmarks I can find around the internet right now, it seems like Apple has fulfilled what it's promised the M1 Max to be – a chip that seriously boosts graphics performance in professional workloads. It is very unlikely that Apple is doing the latter thing, and putting in specific enhancements to its GPU drivers or the Metal API to boost performance in specific games, especially a game like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which favors Nvidia hardware even on Windows 11.įor decades, PC gaming has taken a backseat on macOS, and even now that Apple seems to be paying attention to gaming, it's only really in relation to Apple Arcade, which has a bunch of games that run on a wide range of hardware, from the iPhone 13 to the iMac mini.
And, even when the game itself stops being updated to better its performance, GPU manufacturers are always tweaking their drivers to keep gamers happy. When it comes to gaming performance, one important thing to keep in mind is that the best PC games are updated all the time in order to keep the game optimized for new hardware. (Image credit: Future) So why does it fall behind? That test isn't super reliable for actual gaming performance, as it's a synthetic benchmark, but it does show that Apple's chip has some serious GPU power behind it. In PCMag's Blender tests, the only laptop that was faster was the M1 Pro-equipped 14-inch MacBook Pro, and it falls just short of beating the fastest Windows laptops in Photoshop.Īnd even in GFXBench, the M1 Max is way faster than anything else in the running. Looking at its review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, the M1 Max absolutely beats out the Alienware X17, which is equipped with a 165W RTX 3080, in creative benchmarks. We couldn't get the Puget Premiere benchmark to run on the M1 Pro, as it kept freezing, but the M1 Pro 14-inch MacBook Pro was nearly twice as fast as the Dell XPS 17 in Handbrake, and fell just short of Dell's high-end workstation in Photoshop.īut while we don't have a review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, there are publications that did test it, namely PCMag. We haven't had a chance to review the 16-inch MacBook Pro yet, and the 14-inch model we reviewed only has an M1 Pro, rather than the beefed-up M1 Max, but even that model absolutely aced all of our benchmarks.
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