Apple MacBook Pro 16 2021 M1 Max Laptop Review: Full Performance without Throttling

[Redaktion]

The new MacBook Pro 16 with Apple's own M1 Max SoC offers plenty of performance and uses a completely new Mini-LED panel with 120 Hz ProMotion technology. We review the high-end model with 32 GPU cores and 64 GB shared memory.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-16-2021-M1-Max-Laptop-Review-Full-Performance-without-Throttling.581437.0.html

[riklaunim]

World of Warcraft has a native M1 version (and even WoA) so you could test that, although for meaningful results you have to either have an account with ~max level character or use PTR when it's up (to test mass combat in Karazan - single core CPU and pixel fill rate on higher settings, then do some widefield views for GPU performance).

[Yoyoyo5678]

This laptop cost over 10,000$ in my country  :'(

Hope apple will release a version that cost around 1000$-1700$

[Umair]

Apple making people fool. Only the game i see shadow of the tomb raider has high fps and rest of the game doesn't provide even close to rtx 3050 gpu.. This is apple tragedy making people fool

[Fazal Majid]

It's clear to me the M1 Max performance compared to the base M1 is not proportionate to the cost, but it's the only way to get to 64GB RAM, even if you don't need the GPU capabilities (e.g. you are a software developer running mostly Docker and doing mostly compiles).

[Jaxx]

Apple making people fool. Only the game i see shadow of the tomb raider has high fps and rest of the game doesn't provide even close to rtx 3050 gpu.. This is apple tragedy making people fool

People make themselves a fool buying a MacBook Pro to play Tomb Raider on. That's for the Xbox. The MacBook Pro is a tool to make money, create, assembling code, building content, inventing and discovering new ways to make use of the same power plugged into the wall as not being next to 110v.

That's the separation between the Apple silicon and Intel/AMD's continued use of motherboards, separate RAM, GPU PCIe and controller tracks for bottlenecks and latency throughout.

To be so shortsighted that your primary concern is to play a ten year old runner is silly. Buy the last generation of Xbox or PlayStation for a hundred bucks and use that.

My 16" Max is specifically for making my mortgage payment and doing so in significantly less time, and anywhere I want to do so, because unlike PCs with the need for exponentially more power to compete, fall waaaay behind the productivity curve when unplugged.

But good luck to you sir, and your game of the decade that runs just fine on the new MacBook Pro, even unplugged lol

Jaxx