M2 Pro 16" MacBook Pro - EPIC Comparison (BAD UPGRADE!?)

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M1 Pro vs M2 Pro 16" MacBook Pro - 00:00
External Differences - 01:02
Speaker Comparison - 02:27
Webcam & Mic Comparison - 03:50
Geekbench 5 CPU Test - 04:20
Web Browsing Performance - 05:06
Figma Web Design Test - 05:44
Geekbench 5 Metal GPU - 06:37
GFXBench Metal Gaming - 06:59
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CPU & GPU Stress Test - 10:54
Xcode Programming - 12:07
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[@yourfavoriteyoutuber2917]

Nice video

[@MichaelLee-mh2io]

Sounds like there are compromises with the M2 Pro Macbook Pros, but if the price is right….. I might wait it out for the M3 Pro or M3 Max machines

[@MarvinConnell]

Seems like the only reason to upgrade from the M1 to the M2 would be to get the HDMI 2.1\high refresh rate feature(at least for me)... How much will trading in an M1 for an M2 reduce the price? 🤔

[@MichaelLee-mh2io]

@@MarvinConnell The M2 Pro and Max does have a noticeable GPU performance leap but yeah HDMI 2.1 is way nicer than HDMI 2.0 and we can use a 4K or higher res monitor at a good refresh rate - which would be nice.

[@northeasteurope1256]

I would like to either have a Mac mini, to help my work or MacBook Pro for dad.

[@sdsfilmsaz]

It’s crazy how similar the two machines are. Refurbished models are starting to look really good

[@ghost-user559]

Yeah in every way except graphics related tasks.

[@danseeli5194]

definately going refurbished. Do you think its an issue regarding the battery?

[@Agent77X]

$200 saving is a good deal!

[@gamingintrospection]

@@danseeli5194 I bought my first 2015 macbook refurbished over 7 years ago, and I'm still using it, typing this comment on it as we speak, all refurbished. Never had an issue with it whatsoever. Just ordered a 2023 refurbished today, finally upgrading, and got it for virtually the same price as the 2015 model. It was over 500 bucks off. Refurbished is the best for Apple products; many people I know have done the same and have not had any issues.

[@TheHiddenTruth2024]

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[@samarshamloo84]

Your side-by-side comparisons are always great and you put a lot of detail into them. I'm impressed!

[@simonogden8820]

I'm not sure if the SSD's in the new Macs are a deal breaker for me, I doubt I'll ever have the machine under enough work load to notice the difference but the amount of tests you guys run is awesome helps so much when making a choice of which one to get. Thanks again!

[@OFFtheROAD34]

Always loved your side by side comparisons and how much detail you put into them. Good job!

[@xeon3081]

There’s not another channel I’ve seen that goes this in-depth with all of these new machines and posts nearly every day like you do. Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos. Keep it up!

[@dianacovaciu5589]

As usual, a fantastic video! I'd like to mention how consistent your comparison tests are, which makes it reliable and useful as a reference for newer models. In love with your videos💙

[@evgeniivinidiktov]

Thank you guys for these tests. Love your work

[@aazakimirachi]

These tests are great in showing how these new machines are performing. Its good finally seeing web & UX being represented and showcasing professional use. I’d love to see multitasking and memory stress tests. I’m seeing if Figma is open, I’d also could have Miro, Zoom, Slack, with a few more tabs open. For next time, maybe show collaboration on files and prototyping designs could add a little more juice.

[@Harsh-xo9jr]

Always loved your side by side comparisons and how much detail you put into them. Never seen any other KZbin channel go into so much depth.

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[@alqasimshabana1698]

Hey bro I received the same message as you Is it real or fake? Sounded fake to me 🤣

[@fakhoury56]

Always find these comparisons super insightful. Thank you for the time and effort dedicated.

[@ktaka4649]

Super helpful, thanks for the video!!

[@godwin_njoroge]

The level to which you do these comparisons is just beyond words. Thank you so much! You’ve really helped me get to a final decision between these two

[@LifehackerAsh]

Nobody does such detailed in depth comparisons which is how the reviews should actually be done. Great work ! Thanks for doing this.

[@williamlau2717]

These comparisons video are very helpful. :). Thanks

[@mixitloud]

This is very helpful... Thank you!

[@SpenserHale]

Listen, I gotta tell ya, I really appreciate your analytical insights and that benchmark testing, and the real world comparisons on these two products. It helps me make a smart move on my next purchase. Ya did good, thanks a lot for your dedication to schooling us all in the Mac community.

[@adam4311]

so which one did u get cause im lookking to get another one but i can't decide between the m1 pro or m2 pro cause its just a 250usd difference cause i got student discounts

[@whaaa507]

which one did you get@@adam4311

[@callmemainey]

This is a great video, as always man!! :) Just a tip though (as someone that produces music on Logic Pro) you set the buffer size to 1024, that actually causes less stress. The lower the buffer size the less lag the program has for things like vocals or instruments, basically live recording, which is more stress. Set to the lowest buffer size next time and see what result you get!!

[@YeOldeMartin]

You guys do really good videos - the editing with the sound comparisons is on point!

[@antonio181198]

Great content!! Very clarifying!

[@kooawoakfang5071]

As usual, a fantastic video. Also, I'd like to mention how consistent your comparison tests are, which makes it reliable and useful as a reference for newer models. Keep up the good work, guys.

[@josephregallis3394]

You do a thorough job of comparing these machines and showing everyone what they can do with different applications. Great job!

[@Cali217]

thank you for the continued product reviews

[@geragq828]

Great videos, thanks both of you

[@mrocm121]

Excellent comparison, as usual. Difficult to know how much of a handicap that slow SSD is for the base M2Pro. Really looking forward to the M2Pro vs M2Max comparison.

[@AlbertoFinora]

Nobody does such detailed in depth reviews. Great work! Thanks for doing this.

[@AnmolKumar-ms6xc]

Thank you again for another great vid helpful always helpful when trying to find out what to purchase

[@ElderKai555]

Thanks for all of the outstanding information that helps choosing the right option. I’ve used your videos to make purchases in the past and will continue to do so.

[@MEttestad]

I'm really finding these comparison videos helpful. I am curious what the results would be if you compare a 512 SSD with 32gb ram, to a 1tb SSD with 16gb ram because of the swap speed.

[@ghost-user559]

What machine are you using currently?

[@JackCarroll1998]

If you need the ram, get more ram. You can always add on external storage. 512 is plenty to run programs off of at least

[@djdosile]

I just purchased the M1 Pro 16" 1TB for £2,255 here in the UK. Felt this was a better deal than the M2 Pro 16" 1TB at £2,899 (a £645 saving). Thanks for the comparison. Its made me feel like I'm not missing out on too much (well not for that price jump at least).

[@AsifSaifuddinAuvipy]

apples m2 with 50% slower SSD is a premium scam. you have done the right thing

[@cverlb]

Have had the the M1 Pro 16" for over a year. Best laptop I've ever had by far. Enjoy!

[@maxmaximus7773]

@djdosile where did you buy it from in the UK?

[@djdosile]

@@maxmaximus7773 Amazon had them at that price a few days ago. 👍

[@dfc2851]

I would do the same! awesome buy

[@warcraftaddiction83]

Upgrade paths are always so hard sometimes to decide. Thanks for the feed back.

[@wwmajin]

Thanks for the tests! Amazing work

[@keatfei]

You are the only KZbinr doing all these deep comparisons between the Macs, keep up the good work

[@jacoboblandonpineda]

I think these machines are gonna age very well (repairability and upgradability aside) if the diferences on CPU tasks are anything to go buy. People who bought the earlier M1 Macs will still have lots of power to squeeze out of their machines for years to come, and buying used/refurbished will be a great deal too. Thank you for all the time you invest into this!!

[@oozly9291]

Bought a MacBook Pro 16 M1 1Tb for $15000 refurbished and I couldn’t be happier

[@HowAboutKaran]

Thanks for this, really helpful!

[@chrisovid]

Thanks for making this video! Greetings from Ecuador

[@jo69123]

Is it confirmed that if you get the 1tb option on the M2 pro, it will come with the "high quality" SDDs? Or is it still a slow config compared to the 1tb M1 pro?

[@flog102]

Great comparison, the only thing that bugs me is the slower ssd speed of the M2 base line machines.

[@JackieFrank]

this. I feel like it's best to upgrade to 1TB at least for the M2, but if you then compare its price to the M1 base model, especially if you don't need 1TB of storage and you're just doing it 'for the speed', then it even makes less sense to buy the M2 instead of the M1... it just feels weird buying a 2021 laptop in 2023 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@lapo97233]

Thank you, I love your in-depth reviews !

[@elisadulcey3417]

This comparison videos are very helpful!

[@colorclassic7276]

Wow! The older models are actually looking like a great deal now compared to the new full price models. Thank you for this video!

[@MelvsAmores]

For the baseline 16-inch MBP, the SSD speed is the deal-beaker for me. It is evident on the Lightroom Classic export and Chrome test with 15 tabs open. Great work Maxtech!

[@joelmathews1013]

I thought about this and even though your point is valid, if you’re exporting to an external SSD, let’s say the SanDisk Professional SSD which writes at max 2700mbs, isn’t the speed of the export limited by the max write speed of the external SSD?

[@mdshihabr]

thanks a lot for your detailed explanation....

[@JohnDohBoy]

Great videos; Thank you for your time and effort!

[@codingblaxit9817]

I greatly appreciate your thorough review of the M2 Pro 16" MacBook Pro. I greatly appreciate the time and effort you invested in providing such an in-depth analysis of its features and performance. Thanks for your insights into the capabilities of the M2s, which have been very helpful. I appreciate your expertise greatly.

[@keshav8497]

This is why I love this channel. This is so much better than scrolling through multiple benchmarking websites trying to digest the info overload. Really helpful for general consumers like me.

[@qwe14205]

Agree, It would also be beneficial for other professionals to include tests outside of Video Editing sphere

Impressive and detail comparison! Thank you for all those inputs on this two incredible machines! Keep up the great work!

[@rubyrosellepaday165]

Thanks for your videos. They’re truly helpful!

[@razaelahi7257]

Blows my mind how big of a leap 14 inch m1 MacBook Pro really was

[@dackel4253]

Yeah, the M2 Macbook Pro is just a fully grown out M1, but doesnt really change big things

[@mvp_kryptonite]

Agreed, the ultimate laptop along with the bargain M1 MackBook Air

[@MooseX2012]

I wonder if they’ll bring Face ID to the 3nm MacBook Pro. I would personally upgrade to apply silicon once they suoooet egpus. Which hopefully come with the MacPro 😮

[@framedthunder6436]

We Will never see a leap that Big again

[@framedthunder6436]

@@MooseX2012 not happening Apple not Even support OpenGL anymore neither vulkan Thought their GPUs are great Overtime they Will reach Nvidia sure

[@muslimalbaloshi3309]

Best M1 Pro vs M2 Pro 16" comparison test yet! The amount of hard work you’re putting into these videos doesn’t go unnoticed, keep it up!

[@estebanlopez5016]

Thank you guys for your videos!

[@serviotuliosotomayorenriqu9646]

Great comparisson as usual! Thanks!!

[@pyotryigitaydogan4846]

I don't understand why apple doesn't give us the choice for a higher speed SSD

[@craighudson4382]

You guys are crushing these comparisons! I really want to see how the 1TB unit compares though since the swapfile is being hit hard with large projects.

[@Richman4066]

Bruh, now there’s a bot account pretending to be Max Tech? This keeps happening to lots of big KZbinrs in their comments sections, it’s almost funny. EDIT: In case said comment gets deleted, there was a bot account in this reply thread pretending to be Max Tech. My comment might look weird out of context lol.

[@nuya867]

Great comparison video! It is helpful. Thanks for your hard work.

[@georgetseng5510]

Great video, love your comparisons!

[@Alexandrov_1]

Guys, thank you for you comparisons since m2 is hotter with 12 CPU/ 19GPU it might make sense to do the following test for 14 inch pro Please make the test : 14'' M1 10-Core CPU 16-Core GPU 16/32GB/ 1TB SSD Storage and 14" M2 with the same 10-Core CPU 16-Core GPU 16/32GB 1TB SSD Storage. I guess for those to whom autonomy is a more important factor, it would be interesting to see real comparisons of the same number of cores with the next generation m2.

[@jayryco]

Really LOVING these comparisons! I'm here everyday for these videos! You guys are doing the best real world performance tests compared to everyone else out there! Thank you! ALSO the thermals on these new models is really kinda disappointing since they downsized the heatsink :(

[@isaacwickum]

Love it how it doesn’t take an insane amount of time to watch the video

[@dennisvesz7760]

There are a lot better real world tests on KZbin. He just did benchmark, nothing to do with real world use. No one waits in front of their laptop and stares at the progress bar waiting for it to finish rendering.

[@nafisulislam4376]

@@dennisvesz7760 How about you us a metric to determine the effectiveness in “real world use” then?

[@dennisvesz7760]

​@@nafisulislam4376 well, this video just tells that that the m2 pro is faster than the M1 Pro. Should be obvious that the new processor is faster than the old one. But there are no real world work use cases in this video. Just an example working in blender, when working on huge projects, how about viewport performance or timeline performance. Purely render times doesn't matter, when you can't finish your project, because the viewport is lagging and is limiting your work. i'm not saying these laptops are bad, they're great. But it would be nice, if he would show some workflow in his videos and not only benchmark numbers. I'm working a lot with 3D programs sculpting, creating animations and so on, so actual viewport performance is crucial. For me and some other designers I know, rendering = coffee break / eating / nap time.

[@emilpachkovski]

Thank you for this comparison video.

[@natebirchfield3917]

Love all your reviews! Fantastic channel

[@Epsilon742]

The 3D rendering results were entirely unexpected! Always a great job done by MaxTech at the thorough comparisons!

[@codexous]

Agreed!

[@creativestudio101]

Ditto! I do a good deal of blender product animations and rendering, and the jump in performance is incredible. For that type of work it's definitely worth paying the extra $500 for the M2 Pro, or for that matter, the Mac mini M2 Pro, which at that low price is truly mind-blowing

[@johnnyc.31]

@@creativestudio101 I would watch his M2 Mac Mini videos before doing that. I believe they are much slower than these Macbook Pros.

[@creativestudio101]

@@johnnyc.31 they are? I would have expected the Mini Pro to be close to the MacBook Pro performance wise. Didn't know if MaxTech had done a comparison yet. Thanks for the heads up, gonna definitely have to check it for sure! Cheers mate, and thanks for the notice! :)

[@johnnyc.31]

@@creativestudio101 As with all M series Macs, it seems to be the base models that are hobbled with slow SSD speeds. So as long as you upgrade, you should be fine.

[@ShiningStars0414]

The way you describe the M1 and the M2 it was beyond amazing. You showed the pros and the cons. The things that changed and the things that shouldn’t be changed. You guys are beyond amazing and honestly keep up the amazing work you guys are doing ❤❤❤ I love the content ❤️

[@JaimeOlavarrieta]

You guys put a lot of work on these reviews, I really appreciate it!!

[@hernantrevejo4551]

Thanks for the video!

[@MrMotivator784]

This is the video we all needed! shocking results in Blender! 😮. I think the M2 pro and max will be totally worth it for some people who need it for 3D work. I would be supper happy with either the M1 or M2 but then again I'm currently running the same MB from 2012 I have had for the last 10 years! 😔

[@esseff7655]

Running a 2016 MBP with touch bar here. I think the Apple silicon jump for people like us will be phenomenal.

[@abhishekshah11]

I am watching this video on MBP mid 2012 13 inch. still rock solid lol

[@MrMotivator784]

@@abhishekshah11 we just about got in there for the Retina glory! Their longevity is amazing, if only all other tech could last as long...

[@user-jv4cb4tf7i]

That huge 3D rendering gain was very impressive and unexpected. I guess blender does a very good job optimizing for every small improvement apple makes

[@creativestudio101]

I think it just really shows the great effort the Blender team with the full support of Apple is bearing fruit. A lot of the "inefficacies" of the M chip really has to do with the lack of support or full compatibility from software companies with the M chip, not weaknesses of the M chip itself. So kudos to Blender for being one of the leaders, early adopters of full M chip support. And it's only bound to get better!

[@fabioaguiar2606]

Super helpful video, tks for that

[@gilsonroda8813]

Nice review! Really appreciated! Thanks!

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Thanks for all the videos so far! They are great

[@Hannan_]

Very informative videos. Love the in-depth comparison and analysis in your videos, and they bring a lot of value.

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Thanks for this! Great vid

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Thanks for all the great content!

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Love your videos! Been a subscriber since 2018 and have not missed a video!

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Thanks for a video!

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Great content! I've been enjoying your testing and thoughts throughout this entire series.

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thank you for making these videos, they are the best!

[@elisadulcey3417]

I appreciate the audio and heat comparisons a lot

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thanks for the great videos!

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Great video, thanks for the comparison between the MacBook m2 pro and m1 pro. It was exciting to see the differences in performance and features. I appreciate the detailed breakdown and thorough explanation of each device as well as the tips on where to get great deals! You rock

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I loved this video about the new Macs! You guys are always doing an excellent job in providing accurate and detailed information about the latest tech. I'm very excited to purchase a MacBook based on the amazing reviews you guys do. Thank you!

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Great comparison. Thank you!

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Good review! Thanks!!

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I'm really thankful for the breadth and width of these comparison videos. I hope I can eventually try one out myself

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Great tests and great review!

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I’m so glad I came across this video. This will definitely guide my choice. Thank you.

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This channel is awesome, showing all the important benchmarks giving the best honest comparison possible. Thanks

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Awesome testing 👍

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Thank you for the detailed video Max Tech

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Keep on with the great reviews!

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Great video!! Thanks so much! :)