14" Base model M1 Pro vs 13" M1 MacBook: worth $700 more? 

Feels like yesterday where we talked about how speedy the M1 is.

Good work on all those tests!

It’s mind-boggling. My 13” M1 is amazing in both display and performance, and KEEPS blowing me away. To see Apple just go above and beyond with the Pro is…. Well, it’s beautiful.

Yes! This is the video I’ve been waiting for. Keep these coming, I’m going to watch every one of them until I get my own 14” base model sometime next month.

Thanks for doing the display test. As of yet, not a single tech RU-vidr compare it like you did. It's a great panel, can't wait to get it next year.

Just want to commend you Luke for banging out all of this M1 Pro/Max content. Please keep it up - you are doing great work here.

This is the review that I am waiting for the long decade. 😂

Well done, love your set-up and comparison choices! Your benchmark charts are finally colored, and added a "lower OR higher = better" subtitle! Would be nice if you can add the benchmark as an overlay in the video.

Are you surprised by the results? Do you think the base model 14” is a good value?

Crazy how much you grown, Luke. I am one of your original 10k subs. You have definitely grown into the RU-vidr I knew you could always be. Proud of you, and hella inspiring. Early congrats on 350k. 1/3 of the way to 1 milli.

This is exactly the review I was looking for. Fantastic work!

I like your review style. Calm, moderate pace, not too exaggerated and flattering like other reviewers. +1 sub.

Well done with this video, and for taking a lot of the criticism from the last video to heart, you made reading the graphs so much easier, especially if I’m working and only able to glance at the graphs. Thank you!

This was excellent, thank you! Would love to see the repercussions of the shared RAM on 16 vs 32GB M1 Pro systems when doing graphics-intensive work. I have a 16GB machine now, so would sticking with 16GB feel like a net loss since I'm losing the 4GB of dedicated VRAM?

Great review. Looks like you’re having a lot of fun testing these systems

Thank you for this interesting video and also for adjusting the result-charts (different color for the test-objects, less/more is better etc.)

And keep in mind that the 13 M1 is already a beast in it’s class - so the 14 is absolutely NUTS

A clean review where every current second felt as useful as the rest 18+ minutes.

Nice work on the test, just one note: during the 2:06 display comparison, I think the halo/bloom effect is exaggerated by the camera. Thanks for the videos! Keep up the good work and take care!

Excellent video. Thanks for the info. You were answering my questions about which one to get. looking forward to the 14" battle.

Boy oh boy. If I wasn’t trying to by the new Nikon Z9. I’d be in line for new 14inch M1 Max with 32GB and 2TB SSD.

How much coffee have you gone through this week? Great content and I’m really enjoying watching all of this develop on your channel

Now this is the most anticipated video on RU-vid! Great video

Love the side by side screen comparison. Kudos.

Thank you for making me feel secure for my decision to go with the base model over an upgraded model. On paper for my workflow I felt that it was enough but with a lot of the review videos catering to the higher end models, I was starting to rethink my decision.

The base model 14 is worth it for anyone who needs 16GB 512GB as with the M1 MacBooks you have to pay $400 extra for both of them.

Luke you just saved me a TON of hours going back and forth if I really needed the 10/16 core/gpu combo. Great video and explanation. Keep it up

Thank you for the clarity on your charts, I really appreciate you reading the comments and acting accordingly

As a RU-vidr said before (Luke / another one I forgot), either go with the MB Air or skip to the 14'.

I bought the base model yesterday morning. I didn’t go to bed til 6am this morning and woke up around 12pm. I’ve been working on it for hours with just video editing and this thing is just amazing. The fans didn’t start up once and there’s no heat at all coming from it. I can’t imagine what the $6000 machine would do.

The best comparision video i have seen! I hate how so many tech channels are more busy with taking 9 billion shots and weird angles to the point you cant even compare it for yourself. Your style is perfect. Nice shot that are not all over the place and just straight to the point.

Just the review I was waiting for ... thank you

Another great improvement with M1 Pro is for music. Delay went from 5 or 3ms in best conditions on a MBP i9 16 to an incredible 0.7ms on my M1 Pro 16 inches (base CPU). Settings are at 96khz with 64 bytes buffer... no drops, nothing at all, just mind blowing

Any chance of getting some Logic Pro X benchmarks going forward? There are a few demo projects from big artists that could be used as a baseline reference. Ideas for the tests; - play each project all the way through and monitor the CPU activity - bounce (render) the project to 44.1/24 bit wav (monitor time taken)

Good video. Thank you for this much needed comparison.

Great comparisons man. You're my go to guy now :)

12:57 Speaking of Blender, Apple finally became Blender's patron and allocated resources to integrate Metal API into Cycles engine. The update should be available early next year, can't wait to see that!

The original M1 series is a real beast! I do a large amount of ProRes 4K video editing, so the unique ProRes hardware acceleration is certainly worth it and not really shown in these types of benchmarks. I'd argue for those use cases, the upgrade is worth it. For casual and some professional work, the 13" M1 MacBook series (Air and Pro) are well worth the purchase.

Thanks so much for this! Curious to hear more of your thoughts on the higher spec vs base 14 inch! I'm specifically weighing the 8 core vs 10 core.

Very interesting results. Thanks for doing those tests

Thank you so much for this video! I really needed this to make my final decision whether to go with M1 or M1 Pro! Your an actual legend for uploading it today. Love ya!❤

Useful comparison. At least I know unless I upgrade to Max, it pretty much isn't worth it for my workload.

whoa. just the video i wanted to see. cant wait for the rest of the test. debating between base '14 and the 10core '14.

Thank you so much for doing this. I really needed someone to compare the two models. A lot of reviewers are barely mentioning the base model of the new MacBook Pro 14' as if it doesn't have 8 cores instead of 10

Thanks Luke! Are you comparing the 14” ram performance? It’s $300 to go from 8-14 to 10-16 and $400 to go from 16 to 32gb of ram. Which upgrade u think is worth the most?

Would really love to see the 8core M1 Pro with 16gb of memory on a leveled field against a Standard M1 also with 16gb of Memory.

The video I was waiting for! Thank you Luke

Nice work, Luke. I’m looking forward to the memory bandwidth difference.

I know that most youtubers focus on video editing performance, but would be possible to compare the performance between these models in terms of coding or machine learning. thank you for all these great videos

The M1 14” is heavier than the 13” and the difference is quite noticeable. I’m going with the M1 13” 16gb ram. Although the 14 “ screen is stunning, I watch movies on my TV so the blacks are less important and portability is key for me

6:07 LOL, great video Luke!

Thank you, great concise information. I have a 2017 and 2020 MBP and not sure which way to go but your video has helped me to get closer to making a final choice. I'm in Canada and the M1 MB Air is half the price of the new MBP 14 base, so a buying decision is important since this machine is expected to last at least 5 years trouble free, not including battery life, (its a laptop, meaning future desktop).

Great review, very excited for my new 14” MacBook Pro to arrive! I’d be interested in seeing what difference 16gb vs 32gb unified memory makes in creative applications such as Lightroom, Photoshop, or Premiere Pro

Awesome. Looking forward to comparison with cheapest M1 Max 16. This is a big question how much difference working with FCPX it will make between different tears (M1 pro 14 - max 16)

On This video you showed me the best choice Luke. Good work Man 👊🏻

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

I knew the base model would be more than enough i mean the m1 was already amazing so i knew this would be a beast and definitely more than enough for most people. Great video luke!

The only doubt is as a photographer, who just need lightroom and photoshop, what to choose upgrade the CPU or just go with the 14/16” stock? And is it beneficial to go up from 16g ram?

Thank you! I wonder why i haven‘t found you earlier!?

Thanks Luke! I have been lurking in you channel for a long time now, and this is the video that made me want to say, BRAVO! By the way, how many Macs have you ordered by now?? The simple screen test was spot on by the way.

Do 16gb vs 32 gb on the Pros please!! I think that’s the most important decision most people need to make. It’s 400$ difference (or 600$ if you go with the 24 cores). Is it worth it for most users or 16GB is enough? What about future proofing? I’m worried that 16GB (same as my M1 air) may be too little.

I predict that M2 (10-core GPU) will be quite close to the performance of the double binned M1 Pro in terms of multi-core and GPU, and obviously will have faster single-core. So base 14" may be a better choice now, but the new machine(s) with M2 may be an even better value next year, especially with support for multiple monitors...

This is the video I've been waiting for!

yooo I was searching for this exact question. Good looking out

I'll admit, it was confusing to follow and had to go rewatch a few segments. The video started with the premis of pitting the 13" M1 against the 14" M1 pro, but abruptly changed the conversation to focus on the base M1 pro vs full M1 pro. The 13" M1 was kind of abandoned once it was obviously not in the same race as the M1 pro causing some confusion IMO. It felt like two different videos merged into one. However, this video is still has very valuable information and I am thankful that you compared the two new versions of the M1 pro as I did not think there would be such as small difference between the two. I wonder how much different the M1 max will be and look forward to that video.

Thanks this video was very helpful 💻

This is the review I’ve been wanting! 😃

I think the M1 MacBook Air vs 14" M1 Pro MacBook Pro is a more interesting comparison. Most agree that the Air is a better value than the M1 13" Pro.

I think the 14" is totally worth it compared to the M1 13" MPB. By the time you add in the 16Gb RAM and the 512GB SSD upgrades you're up to $1700 USD, so just $300 difference for the ports larger and better screen.

Love your videos keep ‘em coming

So finally hunt for "THE" ultimate comparison test comes to an end 🔥🔥 thank brother for such comparison

The 14 inch is just insane however there are both awesome machines, I think it depends on what you need and want, also budget plays a big role in my opinion. I have a MacBook pro M1 it is still a very fast machine for most everyday tasks.

TLDW; If you want more graphical horsepower, go for the base 14in MBP otherwise, 13in MBP & MBA are more than enough since the raw CPU power didn't increase that much.

Well made video. Also compare the speakers and keyboard.

Really great screen comparison. Always difficult to tell the difference while watching the video on yet another screen. But regardless of that, the difference is made very clear.

You have to compare the 14 Inch to the 16 GB Ram, 512 GB SSD Macbook Pro 13 Inch. And then it very much is a good deal, or at least better than the 13 Inch with that configuration

I think this video is very biased in favour of the 14 inch because it doesn't mention at all the one big advantage the 13 inch has over it: battery life. The 13 inch gets double the battery life of the 14 inch while the 14 inch had a battery life comparable to the Intel models. That's a big deal as battery life was the biggest hype in the Macbook Pro at up to 20 hours and it's definitely something people need to consider as a Macbook is a portable device at the end of the day and battery life can make or break a buyer decision, especially with the M1 models as that is one of tut biggest reasons that people wanted the M1 Macbooks for. Even though I have a big CX OLED TV and high contrast and HDR is very important to me, I don't it is as relevant on a laptop as it is for a bigger screen or even an iPhone (it is great for battery life on an iPhone), I'm going with the speced out 13 inch because even though it's only 300 bucks of a difference, the poor battery life in the 14 inch is a deal breaker for me. I'd rather a hit in performance but get that crazy battery life which is perfect for a train commute or a Starbucks work day. I wish they'd make the XDR screens for a Macbook that puts efficiency over performance, then I'd happily pay 300 bucks extra for a 13 inch with the XDR display. But for now, battery life is a deal breaker

I enjoy going back and watching videos like yours and feel that I would love to see a video that explains the differences between the memory dependency of previous models versus the current models. This means I would like someone to explain how certain programs can require more memory than others and how having an Apple silicon computer has changed that for the better or worst. Because I am only assuming that Photoshop takes up the same amount of memory no matter what model Apple device your using, but maybe I am wrong. I guess I am curious if the memory is better optimized on the silicon Macs if Photoshop took 6 GB of memory on my new M1 MacBook and I am not set to see a huge performance drop since the laptop can respond better than earlier models. Thanks and keep up the great work.

Love how you're doing all the tests while on battery power alone!

*“Be honest who else is a few hours late”😂*

It would be really nice when someone from the reviewers/influencers measures something not connected to graphics - like time device needs to compile for example java code in IntelliJ/Eclipse or perform some analysis in python. Not everyone is a content creator!

I've been searching for this comparison all over the Internet. FINALLY

Thank you for all of your hard work producing these "top notch" videos.

So excited to get my first Mac and it is going to be an M1 MacBook Pro cause am not a power hungry user

Can you test: - react native compile - unity compile - .net compile & omnisharp performance/startup in large projects - ios compile (xcode) - browser performance (safari, firefox, chrome) on M1 mac (render time, a lot of tabs, heavy pages etc) - RuneScape 3 performance at different graphics settings - OSRS performance - blender in-editor performance. Not just the render, but the "fps" in the editor. - more (modern) games. MS Flight Sim, Valorant, CSGO, maybe BF2042 when it comes out - the notch vs menu items, mouse, games, other monitors etc. - performance when on a deskpad --> because a deskpad is soft, its own weight and the weight of my hands when I'm using it pushes it a little bit into the mat, which worsens the airflow. I see a slight (but noticeable) change in performance when I move it to a hard surface. I would like to know whether something like this affects the new version.

Thank you for doing the Blender tests!

I would totally get the 14 inch pro. The 13 inch is fine if you upgrade to 16GB but a better screen, more ports, function keys, and faster CPU and GPU, faster SSD, plus an actually usable built-in webcam AND magsafe.... the 14 inch makes the 13 look like a piece of junk.

But buying a used M1 for $650 is the BEST deal out!

Great graphs Luke !

Thanks for this video. I also snagged the base 14-inch base model and was worried. I am also trading in my M1 Macbook Air for it. The M1 chip in that smoked a lot of machines that were way more expensive and had bigger specs on paper. The M1 air never flinched with anything I threw at it but did get hot on some tasks. So I realized I have nothing to worry about. The performance gains are gravy to the already fast M1 chips. I also appreciate the larger screen and ports. The dongles for the Air were annoying. Most people can get the 14-inch base and call it a day. It's really that good.

Watching this on my M1 mpb and I can tell you that it's still overkill for what I do but the battery life is incredible. Therefore, you should consider the M1 air unless you are constantly performing high multimedia tasks

6:18 the lack of music or any background noise makes this 1000x better

Now this is solid content! 👌🏽

This is the comparison I'm waiting for.

This vas exactly the comparison I was looking for! I’m about to upgrade my laptop, I need it for music recording and music production, I’m considering either a 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro with 16gb or the base model 14 inch M1 pro. Thanks for the comparison!

Thanks for the great video of the M1 comparison. I ordered the 14” M1 Max 24 gb gpu with 1tb. Maybe some test with the performance boost against the 14”.

I am glad you did this review. I see a lot of reviewers comparing the new Notchbook pros vs Intel instead of the 2020 M1 which is still not a bad machine Thanks! I'd like to see a video of hiding the menu bar from settings with the notch and how it looks with apps.

thanks for the nice review, the only real MacBook review page

Keep up the good work, I was curious if you could also compare the battery life of the 14" vs the M1 13" MBP to see if there's a dip. Furthermore, I haven't seen any videos of it driving any 4k high refresh external screens. If you happen to have that on hand, could you see if it's able to drive external screens with high refresh on the base 8/14 14" version or only reserved to the "standard M1 Pro"?

Nice comparison. Thanks it is useful