Mac Studio Review - The Need for SPEED

My review of the Apple Mac Studio and Studio Display. Comparing M1 Ultra to M1 Max, a Ryzen 5950X and the Intel 12900K in gaming, video editing, xcode development and blender.

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[sachafievet]

I love it that Dave tells you when you shouldn't buy a product when you don't need it

[Hilo-]

Absolutely love Dave’s style of presenting with his vids. It just feels like he’s just having a conversation with you about tech!

[tbray]

i purchased a base M1 Mac Mini a week before this was announced. I have no regrets. This is fun, and the level of power is very impressive, but I don't need it. Just nice to see someone who isn't completely fawning over it and sees it for what it is - a great, powerful option for some people, but not everyone.

[onehungrygeek]

Nowadays, I just watch your videos for a chill, laid-back, and meditative time. Very relaxing.

[adityanagpal]

You are the first one to unbox mac studio on YouTube

[Generictubber]

Dave, I must commend you for your unbiased reviews. Most youtubers flex the GPU power of the M1's to levels claiming it surpasses all existing GPUs, but your Blender result showed a lot of practical comparison for someone I know who uses Blender and was deciding between an M1 mac (not even M1 Ultra) and a 3080 GC windows one, it's clear from your video what would perform better, I really really love this comparison and really wish more youtubers did comparisons for real world proper non-apple applications.

[jamespotts]

Great review, as always, Dave.

I’m currently using a MBP 16 Max. I’d love the smaller footprint of the Studio on my desk, but if I’m choosing a single machine… the laptop still wins. Having the flexibility to work from a location other than my desk is value I won’t trade. That said, I do find myself fantasizing about the Studio despite it not making logical sense.

[DinovanderMerwe]

You’re such an underrated tech YouTuber Dave. I really enjoy your reviews. Nothing flashy, nothing over the top, no attitude or ego, just a nice to watch, honest and credible review. Also love the studio you have. Super minimalist the way I like it. Looks like a spaceship.

[ThatGuyyyyy]

I would love to see a video about the M1 Max version of the Mac studio with 32 core GPU and check if performance is better than MacBook Pro with better cooling due to bigger size of the Mac Studio and being plugged in all the time. Ultra is obviously performance king, but way overkill for most.

[jonny]

The power cable being unremovable on the Studio Display is absolutely insane. Why does apple do this?

[mime]

I can definitely notice the difference between 4k and 5k at 27" because Mac OS is awful at rendering text at non-retina resolutions.

[deletedwaffles]

Honestly the most impressive thing I find about this is the packaging. I wish more products opened up like a flower like the Mac Studio and display instead of having to tug on a device that tightly heled together by foam that you pretty much will have to crack parts off of it to get the item out of the box.

[axineus]

I stopped buying Apple products over 10 years now. I like to have full control of my devices and not have anything locked down. Thanks for the review.

[trnnel]

Nice video, but the graphs are a bit hard to read quickly. I have to check what each color is.

[ViraDrama]

Thanks, for me this one is overkill. I’m waiting for the M2 MacBook Air, which should be good enough for me. 🐯😇😎

[tastyfanpop]

I can't even imagine what a full fledged Mac pro tower with no power limitations will be like. Remember, these new mac products are mostly mobile and pulling less than 250 watts. The old mac pros fully specd used to pull 1000+ watts power. Now imagine the performance from an silicon with 500+ watts. Insane

[GeraColorz]

Dude finally a perfect product for me! As a colorist it's impossible to get such a powerful mac without breaking the bank heavily getting a Mac Pro, this is finally the solution I've been waiting for.

[olcayertas]

I love the termals of the M1 chips! I have the M1 Max 16" MBP and when I play games with it, it stays cool.
Before M1 I had the lates 16" Intel MBP and it was almost untouchable when I played games with it.

[j]

I find it weird that Apple pulls out all the stops for their own silicon (on cooling) but really limited Intel CPUs thermally in their products. I get the M1 line is a bit better at power per watt, but this could have been done with a copper heat sink with Xeons or K processors a LONG time ago.

[exhaustnotemusic]

For 3d, viewport performance is more important than render times.. you can always render your stuff in render farms, or sure can wait extra few minutes or an hour for a render, but without a smooth viewport performance, its not worth it..