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Apple M4 Max defeats RTX 4070 Desktop GPU in Blender benchmark, trades blows with RTX 4080 Laptop

Apple's M4 Max trades blows with the RTX 4070 Desktop GPU in Blender benchmark. (Image source: Apple, Nvidia)
Apple's M4 Max trades blows with the RTX 4070 Desktop GPU in Blender benchmark. (Image source: Apple, Nvidia)
Apple's M4 Max is quite the beast of an ARM SoC. Packing up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, the M4 Max places the MacBook Pro among the fastest notebooks on the market. According to a recently uncovered Blender benchmark, it appears the mobile SoC challenges high-end desktop GPUs as well.

Apple's recently unveiled M4 Pro and M4 Max SoCs have brought along significant performance improvements, living up to the standards that we have come to expect from Apple Silicon. The M4 Pro has received a particularly massive jump in performance, while the M4 Max also offers substantial improvements to both CPU and GPU performance as well.

In most of the CPU benchmarks that we have witnessed so far, the M4 Max appears to be almost 25% faster in both single-core and multi-core tests. Advances to the graphics side of things are a bit more tame, hovering anywhere between 17-23% in synthetic benchmarks, and up to a whopping 55% in gaming performance. According to a recently revealed Blender benchmark, it seems that the M4 Max is finally beginning to rival high-end discrete GPUs from Nvidia.

More precisely, the M4 Max managed an impressive score of almost 5,200 points in the Blender Benchmark, outperforming the comically more power-hungry RTX 4070 Desktop GPU and coming within spitting distance of the RTX 4080 Laptop GPU which scored a marginally higher 5,300 points.

The M4 Max scored an impressive 5,200+ points in the Blender benchmark. (Image source: Blender)
The M4 Max scored an impressive 5,200+ points in the Blender benchmark. (Image source: Blender)
The RTX 4070 Desktop GPU trails behind the M4 Max. (Image source: Blender)
The RTX 4070 Desktop GPU trails behind the M4 Max. (Image source: Blender)

Of course, the M4 Max trading blows with GPUs that are well over a year old may not seem that impressive at first glance. However, when considering the far, far lower power consumption of the M4 Max SoC compared to the RTX 4070 Desktop or even the RTX 4080 Laptop GPUs, the results start to appear extremely impressive, to say the least. 

That said, Nvidia is expected to come out swinging with its Blackwell lineup of next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs, which would likely allow the mid-tier variants to easily leave the M4 Max in the dust once again, at least in terms of raw performance. Although, Apple will undeniably continue reigning supreme in terms of overall efficiency as well as unplugged performance which is essential for a laptop.

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Sambit Saha, 2024-11-20 (Update: 2024-11-20)