Just before Christmas, PetaPixel published its review of the M1 Macbook Pro and praised the new computer, saying it was “much further ahead than anyone expected.” The review is not alone: in this 17.5-minute video, Linus Tech Tips finds even better performance.
Linus took several tests and showed that the M1 Macbook Air and Pro performed excellently, but made sure that Geekbench was also included, because “this is what all the cool kids run.” The result? Extremely impressive.
“The only processor with any hope of matching the M1’s multi-wire performance is a Ryzen 7, 8 core,” he says.
Specifically for creative products, the M1 Macbooks performed insanely well against competition in the Adobe Creative Cloud. Below are standards in Linus’ Photoshop:
Compared to the Photoshop standards published in the PetaPixel Review:
Keep in mind, PetaPixel tested the M1 Macbook Pro against an Intel MacBook Pro which cost $ 700 more and had 2x the RAM. In addition, PetaPixel uses an older version of PugetBench that contains a photo aggregation test, which can explain the differences between Linus’ results and those in his review.
“Even in Rosetta running – it’s a non-native code – the M1 Macbooks both managed to smoke the competition,” Linus reports. “The only possible response to M1, at least in class, is in LuxMark, where the XPS 13’s XE Graphics core involves better numbers, where the others were with about half the performance or even less.”
Below are two more standard tests:
In Linus’ tests, the only computer that consistently performed better than the M1 Macbooks was a much thicker, fatter, dedicated laptop.
The performance of the battery life was also very impressive: it broke 20 hours of continuous use, eight hours more than the nearest competitor. The eight extra hours are longer than some laptops.
“We did not think it would work in the real world,” says Linus. And it’s not to be exaggerated: we’re looking at iPad endurance on a laptop with a full desktop operating system. You can theoretically use it for days on end without sowing it up, depending on what you do with it. ‘
Anyone who is in doubt about the performance or battery numbers of the Macbook Pro published here should be delighted with this confirmation of performance. Linus managed to get more than 20 hours of battery life using optimized settings (PetaPixel did not use optimized settings while reviewing the Macbook Pro and still clocked nearly 16 hours of battery life) and their performance standards are even more impressive than in PetaPixel’s review.
It has been easy to ride on Apple for years because it promised too much and delivered too little, so skepticism about the performance in the reviews is to be expected. But with repeated reviews saying how amazingly the M1 Macbook Pro performs, it might be time to just accept the reality: it really is that good.