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M4 Pro and Max: November 8, 2024; 13 months ago (2024-11-08)
M4 Pro and Max: November 8, 2024; 13 months ago (2024-11-08)
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Currently have a desktop PC with RX 5700xt and i7 8700k which I use for 3d rendering on Blender. I will be switching to an M4 pro Macbook pro since I need the portability. How will the GPU in the M4 pro compare to my 5700xt? Is it powerful enough for 3D work on Blender?
Geekbench metal scores:
MacBook Pro with M4 Max (40-core GPU): 190,329
Mac mini with M4 Pro (20-core GPU): 110,556
According to macrumors, these benchmarks look to be about up to 40% better for M4 pro vs. M3 pro, and 25% faster for M4 Max vs M3 Max.
For comparison:
Mac Studio M2 Ultra (76 core GPU): 221646
Mac Studio M1 Ultra: 160514
Macbook Pro M3 Max (40 core GPU): 154860
Mac Studio M2 Max (38 core GPU): 144948
Mac Studio M1 Max: 104517
The M3 Max GPU has been tested already and thought to be equal to a 4080 mobile which is almost as powerful as a normal 3070.
Apple in the M4 MacBook Pro announcement said the M4 Max GPU is 20% more powerful than the M3 Max GPU. So what’s around 20% more powerful than a 3070? A 4070. We’ll actually a 4070 is more like 24% faster and the M3 Max was almost as powerful as a 4080 mobile so technically I think it will be closer to an RX 6800 or right in the middle of a 6800 and 4070 but still those are really good mid tier GPUs.
That’s some serious gaming power, could only imagine that the soon to be announced M4 Ultra should be as powerful as a 4090, just in time for Nvidia to announce the 5090 haha. So really the M4 Ultra might be as powerful as the soon to be announced 5080 which is still crazy good.
To bad only way to get that level of GPU performance will be to buy a $4,000 computer. And only way to get a 4070 level GPU on a Mac is to buy a $2,000 computer .
Apple really needs to make a gaming focus M series chip or maybe G series? For gaming?
I don’t know who here is also into PC gaming like I am but if you are you know to build a gaming PC all you need is a CPU that won’t bottleneck your GPU. That’s why for gaming PCs you almost always see them just have a Ryzen 5 or i5 paired with a mid tier GPU or a Ryzen 7 and i7 with a high end GPU.
The CPU in the M4 is equivalent to AMDs and Intels latest 7 series CPUs. The GPU on the soon to be announced M4 Ultra chip won’t even be bottlenecked by the CPU on the M4.
No reason why Apple if they really want to take gaming seriously don’t come out with gaming focused SOCs and a gaming Mac line of computers.
Put the M4 Max GPU on a bin level M4 cpu and call it the MG4? For Mac gaming? Since they can’t call it G4 haha
And then take a bin version of the M4 Pro cpu and pair it with the Ultra GPU.
No reason why a Mac gaming computer with chips like these shouldn’t be a thing with a price of like $1,500 and $2,500 for the higher end one.
Mac gamers shouldn’t have to spend $4,000 just to have a high end GPU.
Could even make a cheaper model for $1,000 that comes with the GPU of the M4 Pro and paired with a much slower CPU similar to that of the CPU of the M1.
And I know that’s not how it works, they can’t just take out the cpu of the M4 and place it with the G4 Max GPU, I know they will have to design these gaming focus GPUs on their own but you know what I mean. Just do it Apple!