Max Tech tested performance and responsiveness, both at baseline with no apps running in the background, and with the RAM for each variant completely full.

In a recently published YouTube video, Max Tech puts a 16″ M1 Max MacBook Pro (10 CPU cores, 32 GPU cores) with 32GB of RAM and a 14″ M1 Max MacBook Pro (10 CPU cores, 32 GPU cores) with 64GB of RAM through a series of rigorous stress tests to see how they stack up against each other, and if any use cases justify spending the extra $500 for the 64GB configuration. On both sizes, the M1 Max can be configured with either 32GB or 64GB of Unified Memory (Apple’s fancy-pants term for a pool of RAM shared by both the CPU and GPU).Īfter testing RAM configurations on the M1 Pro chip, which can be configured with either 16GB or 32GB of RAM, tech YouTuber Max Tech found that 32GB of Unified Memory offered the best price-performance value, even though 16GB does exceptionally well and matches performance in almost all scenarios. Apple’s new 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro models are powered by next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.

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