Not even close | M4 Max vs Razer Blade 18

Two expensive laptops compared. Not even close.

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The MacBook Pros used in this video:
M4 Max MacBook Pro 16/40 128GB/4TB
Razer Blade 18 Core i9 14th gen

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⏱️ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:19 M4 Max vs. Razer Blade 18 Comparison
1:10 Power Modes and Battery Impact
2:15 Speedometer and Web Development Benchmarks
3:29 JavaScript Performance Tests
4:03 SSD Analysis and Thunderbolt 5 Performance
6:39 Code Compilation Tests
10:15 Python and Parallel Processing
11:08 Machine Learning Benchmarks
17:00 Testing with M4 Pro MacBook
18:00 Conclusion

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[AZisk]

One thing I don’t test is gaming, but Andrew Tsai tests a bunch of triple A titles on his channel

[oscarjeong]

Razer 18 will keep you warm during the winter season....lol

[phishwak]

As much as I'm a Windows user, I love that Apple silicon is pushing Intel, AMD and NVidia to do better. Competition is good for the consumer.

[buckjas]

Soul crushingly brutal (for Intel and Razer). Keep in mind folks, the Mac can do these tests ON BATTERY with almost no noise. Intel is not even playing in the same league.

[BeaglefreilaufKalkar]

Yeah, Apple made the right decission to go their own way. Clearing bottlenecks, not just CPU speed, but the whole 9 yards

[devalopr]

Mac running windows as a VM beat the Windows laptop💀💀

[Tonkotsu-]

The fact that the M4 Pro not just the Max is faster too is crazy

[rimbaud]

Apple Silicon may look to be one of the greatest ever technical moves. This is brutal

[florianvandillen]

The things I enjoy most on the MBP are the total lack of fan noise and the fact that I never have to tweak performance settings. It just runs buttery smooth plugged in or on battery. And the battery life is actually great!

[debopoporhypersaiyanidc]

Moral of this video, do not buy an expensive windows laptop. Either get a PC, or buy a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon

[Garrettdx]

I've been looking for a proper reviewer who is more knowledgeable than me and doesn't just test some games and video editing, and this dude is that guy. New sub from me!

[keithdow]

I can't wait to see you review Nvidia Project Digits working with a Mac.

[ronniebx]

It's cold and rainy in California right now, using the Razer as a space heater for my dogs😊

[awksedgreep]

As a DBA I can tell you memory latency is much more important that anyone realizes. It affects all of these test, sometimes including disk tests because they copy to disk from memory. What's special about Macs is the amazing advantages of memory latency with the unified architecture. Another lesson here is running databases on arm instances in AWS is pretty amazing for simple operations(standard loop joins) with the Amazon version of this chip.

[georgioszampoukis]

The reason that both the M4 Pro and M4 Max were similar in performance may be due to the Neural Engine being identical in both chips. If properly managed, most of the network, if not all, should run on the ANE, thus providing similar results. It would be very interesting to see where the model runs during inference with Asitop (which shows CPU, GPU and ANE usage). Great comparison!

[domshyra]

These are the true benchmarks I've been looking for!
I see so many video editing ones, but this is exactly the stuff I use it for every day! Ty

[mcameron]

There's something screwy about that Razor. I ran Llama3.2 on my ancient RTX2080 laptop and I got 123 tokens/s. No way can a 4090 only do a 1-2% increase over a card that's two generations older and a lot less powerful. And that multicore score on Geekbench is abysmal.

[obvinpro]

Nobody is interested in Intel laptop, please test a laptop with the AMD AI MAX+

[kristofeight]

9:41 You asking question why razor charge that money, answer is simple, this is gaming laptop, rtx4090 etc costs a lot, most players if not everyone easly take razor over macbook which is asctually useless to play games, dont get me wrong, apple products are very good but for different purposes

[Hedarath]

Hi Alex, did you try changing the performance modes in the razer synapse software? That normally controls the tdp for both the GPU and CPU on Razer laptops. I would also recommend changing it to discrete only mode for the GPU as it would run the tests on the 4090