M3 Max vs M2 Max vs M1 Max - ULTIMATE Comparison! 

Many people forget that for example rendering a video is often a very small part of the whole process of editing videos. So it really doesn't matter a lot whether rendering takes 15 or 20 minutes when the total time editing the video is several hours. Besides you can do many other useful tasks in your life while waiting for video to render

Congratulations really!!! As a 3d artist, I watched hundreds of videos and nobody could get the blender test right. this is it!!! You tested the right version of blender on a beautiful scene, you compared the metalRT support with and without, this is golden information. I searched for dozens of hours for this. you are great, I found the answer I was looking for! Thanks for a very good review and great content ☺

Best real-world testing video comparison I’ve seen. I sometimes get caught up with all the benchmarked scores, when in all reality, I never do that super high-intensive work or play games. I currently have a M1 Max, 64 gigs of RAM, and a 2 TB hard drive. Thanks for a great video. I now follow your channel!

For me it comes down to this analogy. I'm currently driving a really beautiful 600 HP sports car (M1 Max). I use it to go run errands, occasional road trip (obeying the speed limit of course), etc.. I love it because it's the fastest (and sexiest) car I have ever owned. The latest model just came out! It's a 900 hp beast (M3 Max)! Now the question is, do I really need the 900 HP beast for the exact same use? In that context, I just don't see trading in the paid for 600 HP car. It does everything I need it to do with plenty of headroom.

Would love to see some comparisons using Davinci Resolve with: - Magic Mask - Temporal NR - Spatial NR (fast, quality and enhanced especially) - Speedwarp - Superscale 2x enhanced - relight These are quite GPU intensive and may show quite a huge difference in Playback and Render speed.

Thanks for a thorough comparison of these three beasts! Really appreciate it. I have a 16-inch M1 Max and I’m editing Redcode RAW. I noticed that you did a test with R3D and the difference looked dramatic! I’ve not seen anyone else cover this so would be awesome if you dug deeper into editing R3D and other formats with M3 Max that are not supported by the HW encoders. Thanks & keep up the great job!

I just bought a 64gb 16" M1 max for 2600 new from B&H... something important to note is you CAN still get the old versions new, just from retailers rather than straight from Apple.

One of the best Tech comparisons I’ve ever seen! Very well done and you got a new sub from me.

Hi 18 months ago I purchased a refurbished 16" M1 Max MBP with 64Gig of Ram, 4TB internal blazingly fast Hard drive and could not be happier. I can't see myself needing to upgrade this computer ever unless it fails, it performs all of the video editing, Motion graphics, picture processing, data base and spread sheet work I do flawlessly and fast, very fast. Unless you are really pushing the limit with ray tracing etc the M1 Max is the best value out there.

Nice.. !! Gotta give you props man on a great video, ( best ) amazing edit and flow. Thanks for your hard work ! New sub here

Hey Created Tech, what camera are you using? I like the look in the beginning when you showed the different laptops. The colors and the look, I like it.

great video!

Best video ever. Super engaging visuals. Super valuable content.

Really an excellent video and comparison. I think it really clearly demonstrates that most people definitely don’t need to upgrade if they already have an M1 , and m makes excellent suggestions on what to potentially purchase if the are in the market for one machine. Also just want to mention I’m not even interested in buying a max, however I thoroughly enjoy your videos and learn so much - thank you ( fellow Aussie ☺️)

Awesome video. I would like to see a comparison of the base models for video editing.

very realistic review! greatly appreciated this one. don't usually post comments but this one was definitely worth it.

Thank you for making this great video! I like your honesty, you helped me choose the correct MacBook for my budget.

Great Test

I wish everyone would compare the scrubbing experience on their comparisons, thank you for that! Also wish more people did tests in premier haha 🙏

That space black color looks sleek. I will wait until the 14 inch m3 pro next year gets cheaper in the used market to replace my M1 13 inch MacBook Pro

Thanks for the comparisons. I have the M1 Max chip in my base model Studio. It still more than meets my prosumer needs, and I think the same will apply to the M1 Max laptop.

Thanks for this. I live in Italy where things are more expensive, but I just picked up an M1Max with 64GB of RAM for less than 1/2 the price of an M3Max, and I do Photography, and almost no video, so I'm super happy. I came from an i9 MBP with 32GB ram, so the performance jump from that is MUCH BETTER.

Just bought a 16" M1 Max 32gb ram with 24 core gpu a few days ago. Coming for a macbook Air m1 with 8gb ram, this thing's a dream for video editing and more. Cost me much less, but at the cost of a used battery (88% health). cost around $1800 in my country which maybe expensive compared to the US?

I'm a design college student and I'm going back to school in March. That's why I'm going to buy a MacBook for the first time in my life. If I have to do 3d, would the m3 max make sense? Or should I buy the m1 max secondhand and cheaply, and buy an additional Windows desktop?

Apple shows 14-30 36gb for cores/memory for M3 max top of the line. I did not see the config you tested. Did they change the configuration?

Eh, Ill be holding on to my base M1 14 inch until they do another design refresh in like two or three years.

What about M3 Pro vs M2 Pro vs M1 Pro? Also those 6 efficiency cores in the M3 Pro must really shine in low power mode as it’s the only one with that any.

Great video! M1 max is looking tempting

I have a 2020 8gb MacBook Air - great little machine but I can’t do much with it. need something more capable to edit 4k in davinci with pretty complex color grades and FX. Thoughts? 😅

Which one is better or is the M1 still good for streaming OBS?

I am using my M1 Max 10c 32c for Final Cut Pro and various editings at 1080 and 4K for some. I have two M1 Max machines I was thinking to get m3 max maxed out. But I think I don’t need it I never had any issue if I pay I am paying a lot more just for 3 minutes faster ?

Could u show typical user case when rendering in Blender, which is "time till first pixel" when rendering huge scene (heavy in ram, textures etc)?

Any way to fix the pink screen bug on MacBook pros???

Exporting 8k video to 8k hevc 10 bit would be an interesting test. When I am exporting 6k open gate footage from my fujifilm camera on a 8gb ram m1, final cut pro ram useage spills over into swap and as a result it writes several terabytes an hour to the internal ssd doing so, in addition to being super slow.

One thing no one really ever mentions about these macbooks is the need to replace a exhausted battery in the future. That will cost you around £250 should you need one.

In wich areas does the gpu of the M1 max fall short?

does higher ram and storage mena better or worse battery life?

I am torn between a refurbished m2 max with 64gb ram, and a m3 base max with 36gb ram. Both are priced similarly with 2tb ssd. I'll be mostly using it for lightroom. Will eventually lean into davichi as I learn to make videos. If you had to choose, which would you get?

5:37 Do you mean there is no improvement in that particular workflow? Those are some disappointing pieces of news for DaVinci Resolve users. I like Resolve, but once you apply noise reduction and add Fusion motion graphics, the timeline playback gets sluggish.

Decision I’m struggling with is M3 pro vs M2 max and which level of chipset. Must have 2T & 30-40gb ram. Budget of AU$5K, trying to figure out best to get for Blender but really struggling. Any advice?

BRAW comparison would be great. Thanks for using Resolve!

Plz Test the difference in battery life between top m3 pro and base m3 max.

Great comparison. For those shopping around, I'll add: less than a week before the M3 Max went on sale, I picked up an M1 Max (14", 64GB, 2 TB, max CPU and GPU cores available) *new* from an authorized Apple retailer with Apple Care for somewhere around $1900 or $2000 less than what a model customized like that would have cost at debut. So far, I've taken it to a professional conference, and I've done plenty of work with it at my desk, away from my desk, and in the air, and I'm extremely pleased with my purchase. For my purposes, this was the right machine--largely because of the storage, ports (especially HDMI and SD), and PRICE. I certainly don't push it to the limit when video editing, which I'm just starting out with, but I know it will give me plenty of room to grow. There are great deals out there if you take some time to look!

Space black is also for M3 pro not only max.

I plan to buy a Macbook Pro soon. If say 4000. is my limit better to go refurb M2 Max 96gb Ram/1T HD or new M3 Max 48gb Ram/1T HD? My usage is: Adobe CC + Cinema 4D. Tnx!

which is better among a M1 Max with 64 GB Ram , 4 tb SSD vs M2 MAx with 32 GB Ram 2 tb SSD ? (if the price difference is minimal)

Any help... I want to buy m1 pro max 32gb 500gb 16 inch for my freelancing.. mostly coding/compiling/ web servers and sometimes adobes... They sell it for 1800 .. What do you say?

You can still buy brand new M1 M2 units. B&H still has most models

For me its the upgraded RAM, 16GB just isn't enough for docker, vscode, chrome and xcode all running in the background and having to move into SWAP.

Seems like we finally get some decent Redcode performance :)

thanks for your 2 comparisons M3-M2-M1 Max and M3-M2-M1 Pro. From my side i was buying MBP 14 M1 Max 32Gb to replace my MBP2019 i9 2.8Ghz and it is really good and now all my Photos editor software are uptodate for Mx (PS, DxO, ...) :) and price was really good in France for 2nd hand (1800€)

Thank You... This is the 1st video I found with 'real life' info. I desperately need to upgrade. I tend to have all three programs, Photoshop, Illustrator and Affinity Designer open at the same time... And, ... at times, more than I care to admit, having several browsers and / or RU-vid running to figure out the best way to tackle a specific task I'm trying to accomplish in either of the 3 programs. I've been putting away my pennies, and have planned on going with the MacBook Max M3 16" Maxed the whole nine yards. Apple still have several M2 MacBook Max's in the refurbished area, but none that are Maxed out. I'd love to know your thoughts!

Can you please test the M3 max 16 inch speakers to the M1 Max 16 inch speakers?

What is a "3 nanometer process"?

The only reason I would upgrade my m1 max would be to save its value while it can. I don't think the performance gains justify it for my use (video editing)

This review is built different

Wait for the m4 max. Or m3 ultra.

Space black is also available on the M3 Pro :₽

The hard thing for me is that I’m into coding, video editing and 3D modeling/animation. While I’m sure for coding and video editing it is no problem, 3D is another story. I want power and portability, I love the battery life on these MacBook Pro laptops. I have a 2017 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM so it’s not great, it was my high school laptop. While I love the value/bang for the buck of M1 Max, since I do a lot of 3D work I worry it may not be enough. I know the M3 Max laptop seems great but the price is a lot… then there is the issue of the iPad Pro coming out with the M4 chip already. It just makes me think it will be much better to just end up not buying anything new for now and just save up and wait for the M4 Max MacBook Pro 16 inches 😅 I’m sure the M4 Max MacBook Pro will be even more expensive but by then I should have more money saved up and I will just max out the RAM and storage. That iPad Pro M4 chip is too tempting though. I’m waiting for the WWDC announcement to see if the iPad Pro will get some OS updates. But knowing myself, I am more of a laptop person and I am willing to wait it out for the M4 Max MacBook Pro.

I wouldn't call a laptop with the latest software out of date; at least for MacBooks. Windows 10 supported truly ancient machines 😅

Where’s your cat 🐈? Missing it in your new videos

My dual Epyc bought on Ebay for 1600€ has 52000 for cinebench vs 12960 for the 5000$ m3 MAX 😅🤣

Thanks, now I am using 13 pro m2 for coding, and look at 16 pro m2 max (new about 2,3 $)

If I check the prices between m2 max and m3max the prices are really similar (around 3500 euros). I could get a new M1max for 2500 euros. What I wonder is how long does Apple support their products??? I have a late 2014 macbook pro and use it mostly for regular office works (Word excell...) and also Ableton. And after now 10 years there is no support anymore for my laptop (10years max.) So the most value for buck would be the M1max. But if I have to consider 3 years less support time then I would prefer to spend more and keep my macbook pro longer.

So I’m salty because I just got a M2Max 96 unified memory a month before M3. Am I missing out at all? Or is it just fear of missing out? :(

Where's the Windows PC?

2x performance increase.. 2x price increase.. - fair enough for me.

Personally I wouldn't have any of those Macs because of the hidious 'notch'.

Need to do pros

Of course the M3 Max is loved by RU-vidrs. But not all of us have £7000 plus to spend or even need that amount of power.

is 48gb ram enough for rough blender/3d animation usage?