I completely understand that the CPU and GPU benchmarks are not a one-to-one comparison and that most of the delta is due to a lack of support for GPU rendering in these programs Those that need the performance are not going to wait around for the GPU support. However, the difference does not express the raw and fair performance of the MacBook Pro M1 Max since the difference is primarily a lack of support. I believe this is a significant performance difference that should be considered when comparing the two systems. The Zephyrus m16 rendered the benchmarks 89% faster than the MacBook Pro M1 Max and 78% faster for the top three of the five longest renders.
I took the percentage difference between the Zephyrus m16 CUDA and the MacBook Pro M1 Max CPU for each of the five benchmarks and then averaged the percentage difference between the five benchmarks. To give a perspective on the performance of the GPU, I ran the Blender CUDA benchmark on the Zephyrus m16 with a GeForce RTX 3060. For Blender, it was up to 7% on the longer renders, for KeyShot and V-Ray was about 2% and for Redshift, it was about 28% difference in performance.įor all of the benchmarks, all except for Redshift, the MacBook ProM1 Max could not benchmark using the GPU compute (CUDA). Turbo mode is only available when connected to AC power and maximizes power to the CPU and GPU for a bump in performance. The stock mode is set up to achieve greater performance while taking into consideration energy efficiency.
I also think it is important to show that the Intel-based system is set up in such a way that OEMs and even users can achieve greater performance. The entire article is about both systems in their stock form. I also wanted to mention why I included Asus’ Turbo Mode in the benchmarks. I kept both systems at stock settings, with the one exception of changing the screen timeout so that the systems do not go into sleep mode while benchmarking. The setting under Battery>Battery>Energy Mode is set to automatic, which "will automatically choose the best level of performance and energy usage." Similarly, the Zephyrus m16 has settings to change in Windows 11 settings and Asus' Armoury Crate. For example, the MacBook I used for testing under the settings Battery>Power Adapter> Energy Mode is already set to High Power. Most systems out of the box have higher performance configurations when running on AC. For the testing of both systems, I ran the benchmarks on AC (plugged in its stock charger) rather than DC to give both systems the chance to perform at their best.
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