If I am contemplating an M1 Max Macbook Pro upgrade to an M4 Max Macbook Pro, how should I be thinking about this?
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If I am contemplating an M1 Max Macbook Pro upgrade to an M4 Max Macbook Pro, how should I be thinking about this? I don't have many complaints, but GPU performance is not quite what I would like, mostly for performance in games. The M1 Max is such that I *rarely* fantasize about a gaming PC, but will the M4 be so good that I *never* do any more?
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@glyph It's only one benchmark, but Geekbench 6's Metal GPU benchmark brings in the M1 Max around 110,000 points, while the M4 Max comes in around 190,000.
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@jalefkowit Okay so I should expect to "a bit less than double" performance? This is a great metric to have, thanks.
(I want MKBHD to deliver this metric with confidence and context but if that doesn't exist, I am happy to at least have a general sense.)
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@glyph Possibly, though I suppose a lot would depend on whether the application uses Metal.
If you want a more cross-platform benchmark, they also publish an OpenCL one:
* M1 Max: 66,154
* M4 Max: 116,416So again around a 100% improvement, though a mid-range last-gen discrete GPU still beats them both (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, 127,848).
