The Cinebench 2024 multi-core test shows an 18% advantage over the M5 Max in the MacBook Pro 14 and the older M4 Max in the MacBook Pro 16. The MBP 16 also achieves this result in mode automatic which is also much quieter. High Performance mode doesn’t increase performance all at once, but we’ll still test if it affects sustained performance. During a benchmark, the CPU cores consumed 78/65 Watts and therefore much more than the MBP 14.
Graphics performance is also better, and the current 3DMark Steel Nomad test shows a 12% advantage for the MBP 16’s M5 Max over the MBP 14’s M5 Max and 21% over the MBP 16’s older M4 Max. We can also already say that GPU performance is quite stable under sustained workloads, which was not the case for the smaller model (-7.4% in mode Haute Performance-25% and fashion Automatic ).
We will obviously carry out further testing, but our initial results already show that the M5 Max is much better suited to the larger MacBook Pro 16 and that the difference in performance compared to the MacBook Pro 14 is significant.
