Just before Christmas, PetaPixel published its review of the M1 Macbook Pro, praising the new computer, saying it was “much more ahead than anyone expected”. This analysis is not the only one: in this 17.5-minute video, Linus Tech Tips finds even better performance.
Linus ran several tests and showed the M1 Macbook Air and the Pro with extremely good performance, but he made sure to include the Geekbench as well, since “this is what all the cool kids are doing”. The result? Extremely impressive.
“The only CPU with any hope of matching the M1’s multithreaded performance is a Ryzen 7, 8-core,” he says.
Specifically for creatives, Macbooks M1 performed insanely well over the competition on Adobe Creative Cloud. Below are the benchmarks in Linus’ Photoshop:
Compared to the Photoshop benchmarks published in the PetaPixel review:
Have in mind, PetaPixel I tested the M1 Macbook Pro against an Intel MacBook Pro that cost $ 700 more and had 2x the RAM. Besides that, PetaPixel uses an older version of PugetBench that includes a photo fusion test, which may explain the differences between Linus’ results and those of his analysis.
“Even running on Rosetta – this is a non-native code – the M1 Macbooks managed to bring down the competition,” says Linus. “The only potential answer to M1, at least in class, is at LuxMark, where the XPS 13 XE graphics core has better numbers across the board, where others have languished at about half the performance or even less.”
Below are two more benchmark tests:
Basically, in Linus’ tests, the only computer that consistently outperformed the M1 Macbooks was a much thicker and more robust dedicated gaming laptop.
The performance of the battery life was also extremely impressive: it broke 20 hours of continuous use, eight hours longer than the next closest competitor. These additional eight hours are longer than some laptops in total.
“We didn’t think he could handle it in the real world,” says Linus. “And that can’t be overstated: we’re looking for iPad-like resistance on a laptop running a full desktop operating system. You could, in theory, use this thing for days without increasing it, depending on what you do with it. “
Anyone who doubts the performance or battery number of the Macbook Pro published here should be thrilled by this performance confirmation. Linus has achieved more than 20 hours of battery life using optimized settings (PetaPixel did not use optimized settings on purpose when reviewing the Macbook Pro and still recorded almost 16 hours of battery life) and its performance benchmarks are even more impressive than what was published in PetaPixel’s Review.
It has been easy to pilot Apple for years, promising too much and delivering poorly, so skepticism about analytics performance is to be expected. But, with repeated analysis stating how amazing the performance of the M1 Macbook Pro is, it may be time to just accept the reality: it really is very good.