Apple Mac Studio M4 Max Review

The feeling when you pull a piece of up-to-date equipment from the box is unmatched in the field of human experience. Regardless of whether it is a motherboard, USB SSD, or a damn printer, unpacking is great fun. People even make movies about it.

And however you think about Apple, you must admit that Cupertino’s telephone company is doing good packaging. The Mac Studio box is even equipped with a carrying holder, and when it opens on the sides to reveal the plate of zingy ground aluminum in the act of theater to compete when the magician presents his charming assistant from a wooden box.

At the time of writing up-to-date computers, Mac are packing variants of the M4 Apple processor, based on the design of the project, which is so far from the delicate system that drives your phone with Android, because the Siberian tigers comes from a home cat. The basic M4 in the MacBook Air is packed 10 cores and easily beats Intel Core Ultra 7 265 V, although it is passively cooled, and we have a better size here.

There is only M4 in the Mac studio that we have, it is M4 Max and to utilize the technical term, it is somewhat powerful. The machine tested here is also £ 3799/USD 3699around the same price as A Razer Blade 16 with RTX 5080 And OLED screen, but we will shine on it.

For your money you will receive a 16 -year processor and, importantly, a 40 -year graphic processor. The M4 version of the Apple graphics system supports radii tracking, and in synthetic comparative tests appears somewhere around the RTX 4070 level, although direct comparisons of various GPUs are complex. He certainly overcomes AMD Radeon 8050s at ASUS ROG FLOW Z13, which is currently considered one of the better integrated GPU solutions. Our studio also has 128 GB of RAM, which is probably an exaggeration to games, but it makes sense if you take into account what tasks Mac Power-Users probably set their machines, and also offers some future, because studies cannot be easily improved after ordering.

He does all this in the case of SFF, which makes the fractal terra look positive and smaller mini computers with minisforum, but not much of this type of power-attracts about 100 in all-in. There is a fan in this matter, but it does not require much time and you will never know that it is there, unless you make it work extremely challenging. In addition, being a state-of-the-art computer computer, you get a lot of Thunderbolt 5, HDMI 2.1, 10 GBPS Ethernet, about 10 ports of the type-C and 5 Gb / s, and even the SDXC reader. It can go to five monitors at the same time and is well equipped to live on a desk. Wi-Fi is the 6E version, which is surprising, because you can expect that Apple will have the latest, but it is good enough.

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Mac Gaming has traveled a long way in the last few years, but things are not yet perfect. When I installed Steam in the studio, I was interested to see how much it would be served by PC Gamer Benchmark Suite (TM) and … it’s not much. While Native version of Cyberpunk 2077 Along with the tracking of the rays, it should be released this year, most importantly, it is not yet, and games at the reference point are older from the time of Kaby Lake.

There are many games with a native version of Mac on Steam, as well as the Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Mirage in Mac App Store, for only two examples. In combination with the Mac Mac Mac to run applications on iOS, this means that there are many more games available, although they are often mobile ports for iPad.

Still, from Steam itself, you can have fun on your Mac. There is Metro Exodus, Frostpunk 2, CIV VII, Stardew Valley, WH40K ROGUE TRADER, XCOM 2, Alien Isolation, several COD games and many others, although this is still a much slimmer choice than this Windows players.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider shows us that despite the high level of GPU M4 Max performance, it is still not enough to get to 60 frames per second in 4K/highest. Interestingly, the 4K result is exactly what our RTX 3070 references achieve. Statistics that the game ensures that the GPU is associated with GPU 99% of the time in 4K, so we really bring these graphic cores to the maximum. It is definitely playable, although it fell to 1440p, it produced something much more tasty for state-of-the-art high refresh monitors-and it still turned out that the GPU circumscribed 98% of the time. At 1080p it drops to 53%, which suggests that 1440p is a very sweet place here.

We also have some comparative numbers for Warhammer III, in which the up-to-date RTX 5060 Ti provides the same type of number of frames per second as M4 Max.

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Shadow of Mordor has several strange video options, so I chose something close to 4K and got the number of frames played per second in a comparative tool. Settings 1440p and 1080p type show how to expect, with 1440p looked like a great option in all tests that we tested, and only a shadow of Mordor showing outrageous declines compared to the gradual number of frames to completely unchanging levels, when it runs slightly more than 4k.

In synthetic test tests, M4 Max presents excellent results. For comparison, Ryzen 7 9800x3D, which I had after I lay around 132 in Cinebench single -core tests, 36% win for Mac and 1336 in a multi -core test, for a huge 57% escalate in M4 Max. This should be expected when you issue a 16-core chip against octa-core, even as bestial as 9800x3D. 16-core Ryzen 9 9950x3D and nominally 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 285K both publish better multi-threaded results, but they are still mile when it comes to the performance of a single core.

You would never buy such a MAC studio as a game computer, but if you want to take a bit free from visualization of up-to-date, brutal architecture, LLM torture or design a novel form of a minimalist cup for coffee, slide your black glasses and put myself aside to go to 1080p. Games, especially when a cyberpunk version of the radius appears.