M4 or M4 Pro MacBook Pro? NOT what I expected...

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The new M4 and M4 Pro MacBook Pros offer a compelling price point and stellar performance! But what can benchmarks tell us about real world performance? Today we'll tackle the ins and outs of the new M4 and M4 Pro chip, performance compare them and test for Ai, Video editing, and gaming

time stamps
0:00 Base model is better this year
0:48 Core bump
1:13 Cinebench Multicore
1:36 Cinebench GPU
2:04 Blender
3:16 Sponsor
4:28 Fan noise....
5:28 Temperatures
6:42 Shadow of the Tomb Raider
7:12 Death Stranding
7:45 Final Cut Pro
9:38 DaVinci Resolve
10:18 AI
11:20 Recommendations

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[TitelSinistrel]

I have a 14inch M1 pro from work and it never breaks a sweat or spins up the fans. It is quite impressive seeing the "base" M4 being quicker in almost all but GPU tests.

[TekkiTEZ]

Most people will just buy these to watch YouTube and browse the web.

[MJLeeee]

5:48 Hotter surface temperature may imply the internal heat is getting pushed out much better. Surface temperature shouldn't be considered alone to determine the cooling performance.

[fVNzO]

M4's are also particularly impressive next to M3 because they nerfed the bus width on M3, and M4 has the old layout but with way faster memory. So not just faster memory but substantially bigger bus widths as well. And off course an actual next generation node and not an interim one. I think the normal M4 Pro is a pretty staggering value if you were already looking at macbooks.

[Everett]

I finally upgraded from my 2013 15” MacBook Pro Retina yesterday. Not because it couldn’t do anything I wanted it to do, but because my daughter’s 2011 13” MBP’s fans were annoyingly loud while she was playing Minecraft. The 2013 Retina will be a nice upgrade for her. For my replacement, I decided to go with a refurbished M1 Max 16” MBP with 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD for $1, 780. Keep an eye out for those M1’s coming on the used market as M1 owners finally see a significant value proposition to upgrade to M4. You may get an even better deal than I found.

[DigiDriftZone]

It's incredible that the M4 Pro outperforms the M3 Max by 20% in CPU performance. If you're not doing a lot of GPU heavy tasks, it represents amazing value.

[rideroliver]

Upgraded from a 13" M1 8gb MacBook Air for mostly Xcode work to 14" 24gb M4 MacBook Pro. So far, couldn't be happier. Though in normal day-to-day use without using swap memory, my RAM is already at 14 GB. In use. Might be just index in first week tweaking glad I have the extra headroom in RAM for next few years.

[guillermovic]

Here in Spain the base M4 costs 1929€ and the base M4 Pro costs 2449€. I can live with the M4 fan noise, and save 500€... But in the US it's worth to get the M4 Pro

[AshHarris-go]

If you don’t like fan noise get the M4 Air. If you max things out consistently you need fans. Buy a max if you need faster export times. I would need to be exporting 3-4 times a day for that to matter, which I don’t. If you know you know

[deerock]

M1 Max since '21. Just ordered the M4 Max 64g ram, 4tb SSD. I do a lot of things from pro photography to mixing albums and tv shows for various studios...the M1 Max has been great until it wasn't. i think the M4 Max will suffice. I don't want desktops anymore since I'm gunnin' on the run more these days around the country with the photography, then mixing TV shows for HBO in a hotel room. ;) Excited to see how the M4 does.

[nelsn]

I’m still running a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro that’s beyond outdated and every year I always write in the comment section that I will be upgrading to an M-Series Mac and I never do. Hopefully I do so this year and a base M4 MBP to me is much better than what I currently have which is a 3rd Gen Intel i7 Processor.

[TheVoiceofReasonya]

The M1 Pro has held up incredibly well for many of these benchmarks related to productivity, and exporting times of video. Still very impressed with it's performance. Maybe when the redesign comes with m6 we will have a look see.

[bryonricketts]

I’m upgrading from a 16” i7 intel 16/512 MBP to the 14” M4 chip 16/512 MBP. This is gonna be fun.

[DanielPvb]

Upgrading from a M1 Macbook Pro to the base M4 Macbook Pro. The most I do when it comes to intensive work is graphic design so I'm not worried about the fans reving up. Excited to get it in hand!

[bccengiz]

Still going with the m1 air family. It hasn't let me down yet. Of course the m4 is pretty good but right now the m1 is enough for my needs.

[ScipioHun]

Actually I don't know why is it so important to bring a new MacBook Pro every year. Most probably there are hardly any people who really can utilize all the capabilities of such a machine. The previous version of the MacBook Pro could serve anyone for years without any problems.

[ProNab]

main reason for huge difference in m3 and m4 is due to 16gb ram offered on the base model, 8gb ram on previous base model was really limiting the true performance of M3

[MSC-]

Finally. Today I ordered the MacBook Pro 14" with M4 Pro 14/20 cores base model with 24GB RAM and 1 TB SSD. There were still good Black Friday deals in Germany. It replaces my MacBook Pro 13" from 2013 with i5 dual core, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. I think it's a solid upgrade.

[Bensonlaunh]

I like that you share the AI benchmark, which much content creators missed out. Thanks for the sharing

[htz]

This is by far the best comparison I have found on youtube. You come clearly to the point, no useless blah blah blah . Thanks a lot, it made my decision to the M4 pro.