

The high-end version of the MacBook with the fastest M1 Max is equipped with four GPU clusters and eight cores each. These will be much faster in practice, but we cannot determine the exact performance advantage. These are emulated via Rosetta 2, and it works, but the performance is noticeably worse compared to the native versions.


The M1 Max performs noticeably better than the M1 Pro, but you should be a bit cautious with the results, since the benchmarks are only compatible with the Intel versions of the applications. We also performed the two PugetBench tests for Adobe Photoshop as well as Adobe Premiere Pro. The BlackMagic RAW Speed Test shows the advantage of the larger cache, because the CPU test shows a small advantage of 7 percent. This is also supported by the cross-system benchmark CrossMark, where the two devices are very similar. During everyday tasks or when you only stress the CPU, you will not notice a difference to the entry-level unit with the M1 Pro though. It is not surprising that the high-end SKU of the MacBook is obviously a very powerful and immensely responsive laptop.
