Apple's new M2 Max looks pretty promising on paper. They sell it a lot as the laptop that all creative professionals will want to render to the fullest, since a large audience of Mac users are professionals who can cut their price, and take advantage of having a high-end laptop. Nevertheless, according to a recently discovered GPU benchmark, it may not live up to high expectations that some had deposited in it, and that Apple itself had put.
It should be said that it is not that it has a bad GPU to render, since it is very good in itself. It means that it's not the huge leap in quality from professional rendering that was expected, and that it already has an equivalent on the market, in case someone wants precisely that GPU in a cheaper and more accessible model.
The M2 Max in GPU form gives good results, but it barely beats the M1 Ultra and doesn't beat the RTX 4070.
For now, not much can be said about the performance of its CPU because no benchmark has been seen in this regard. But as far as its graphics section is concerned, in a recent Geekbench OpenCL entry discovered by Wccftech we can see a small sample of what the GPU will be capable of doing. Note that this particular system uses an M2 Max with a 38-core GPU, the highest core count configuration.
The Mac system with which it was tested scored 75.139 points, which puts it on par with the 64-core GPU of the M1 Ultra. Considering that the M2 Max has 26 fewer GPU cores than the M1 Ultra, that's a decent result, by comparison. But when you compare it to a laptop equipped with a RTX 4070, the Apple M2 chip falls short. In the same benchmark, Nvidia GPU (Samsung laptop) can get more than 100K points.
The first laptops to use the M2 Max are the MacBook Pro models, which launch this week. Very surely Apple will announce more of its products that make use of this M2 Max throughout the year.
Source: Kitguru
