Apple Mac Studio M2 Max vs M2 Ultra - Ultimate Comparison!

Is it worth spending an extra at least $2000 double the price to get the M2 Ultra? I covered mainly real life tests like video editing performance in DaVinci Resolve, compressed codecs, Canon RAW, 8K, audio production in Logic Pro X, Blender rendering and many more... as well as usual benchmarks like Geekbench 6 and 5, Cinebench r23, Blackmagic RAW etc.

In general, the Mac Studio M2 Max is very powerful Mac and will do well anything you will throw at it, especially if you are working in codecs supported in the Media Engine.
The Mac Studio M2 Ultra, as the name says, is simply really Ultra in many areas. 3D GPU rendering, music production and especially video editing, those are areas where you will see the biggest gains over the M2 Max and sometimes as I showed you in this video even up to 2.27 times more performance.

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Timeline Index:
00:00 Intro
00:21 Good News
00:48 Pricing
01:16 Physical Differences & Specs
02:42 SSD Speeds
03:34 Memory Bandwidth
03:57 Geekbench 6 Single Core
04:21 Frequencies
04:30 Geekbench 6 Multi Core
04:48 Geekbench 5
05:06 Cinebench r23
05:17 Blackmagic RAW
05:33 Audio Production
06:14 Blender CPU
06:45 Web Browsing Performance
06:62 Safari vs Google Chrome
07:10 GPU capabilities
07:47 Geekbench 6 & 5 GPU
08:07 Blender GPU
08:25 Blender CPU vs GPU
08:42 Photo Editing
09:40 Video Editing - Media Engine
10:16 Apple Compressor
11:11 DaVinci Resolve “Candle” Test
11:47 DaVinci Resolve Canon RAW 8K
12:42 DR Proxy Transcoding
13:14 DR Smart Cache Generation
14:05 DR Export times
14:29 DR Smart Cache Generation 2
14:43 DR Export times 2
14:59 Best Surprise For Last
15:26 DR Tracking
15:45 DR Export times 3
16:08 Which One You Should Get

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[pablomarin]

Best review and test for editors and Studio houses so far. Big thanks I’m ordering M2 ultra today

[JesseMoffett]

Love your channel, so glad to see you again!

[RockyColaFizz]

Thank you for this video. It’s super informative. And I know, this took a loooong time to put together.

[breezlee]

As always great content that rocks but now I want to see you shredding on the Strats and Les Pauls and giving comparisons. 😀🎸👍

[TwoCakesYoda]

Excellent comparison. Thank you. Subscribed.

[rodneydangerfield]

Thanks, Teresa, for the very helpful video!

[vivekjadhav]

Nice video i like your music production test

[alesko]

I’ve been looking for a video that combines real world use cases with benchmarks. You nailed it! Love this. Thanks so much!! +sub 😊

[TalonNismo]

Great content. Full of useful information. Thank you.

[bobsardjono]

thanks for the comparison Morgonaut, nice video.. 👌🏻 if you have time, could you please compare them in any graphic/compositing app like autodesk's Flame or Motion, AE, Fusion and so on..thanks and keep up the good work.. 👍🏻

[torsrive]

The picture quality of your video is stunning! Jesus so good!

[dougdina]

Great video. Much of it was over my head so I’ll need to watch it a few times. It seems that your usage is the same as mine; video editing. I’m learning and deciding whether to upgrade.

Curious, have you tried Magic Mask in Fusion on the Max and the Ultra? It’s oddly very slow in Fusion but quite fast on the Color Page.

[jasonk]

Amazing work. I work mostly in 4k from Sony FS7's (Premiere) and 2D motion graphics in After Effects. Looks like the Max might suite my needs. Thanks for the thorough analysis!

[matthazard]

Awesome video, great work :) I realize it isn't economically feasible to have 10 SKUs to test, but It would be interesting to see a comparison of two machines with the same amount of ram and SSD size. So the Max and Ultra comparison would be clearer. It seems like the Ultra's gains skew more since it has so much more memory. And when it does use swap it has a much faster SSD. The Max with 64GB and 1TB might have much better results in some of the more intensive tests?

[parkofile]

The "HDR" Content is Thank You.

[vivekjadhav]

Please make video on Macbook Pro 14 inch vs Macbook Pro 16 inch for music production

[banbuna]

Excellent video comparison with impressive data presentation.
Need your consultation: I'm a photographer and edits a lot of RAW images in Lightroom and Photoshop
Today I have an iMac 2016 with 16 giga ram memory and a 2 tera SSD drive, the editing on the computer is relatively very slow.
Deciding between Mac Studio M2 Max Chip 12-Core CPU, 38-Core GPU, 64GB Unified Memory, 2TB SSD Storage
and between Mac Studio M2 Ultra Chip 24-Core CPU, 60-Core GPU, 64GB Unified Memory, 2TB SSD Storage
what is your opinion?
Thanks.

[wcgxwth]

Can the Mac Studio M2 Max handle well with well-known editing programs such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, and Da Vinci, smoothly and easily for video clip production and wedding production, because I work in the field of wedding photography and I have a photography camera such as the Sony A7S3 and Canon Mark IV 5D Please, I want a frank answer. Thank you

[paola]

I will buy a M2 Ultra for heavy photoshop work but I need to know if I need to upgrade to 128 GB or what are your upgrades recommendations if any? Thank you and have a wonderful day :)

[GRobo]

Please do the logic test with the lowest buffer size as well since that's more relevant. Thanks❤