[johndoe0815]

This is very much clickbait, somehow the author of that article expected that a mobile 65W SoC could come close to discrete NVidia or AMD desktop GPUs that consume 100s of Watts. I don't think Apple is going to use the M1 Max/Pro SoCs as a basis for "Pro" desktop systems.

From the article:

"The new M1 Max SoC can also compete very well against standalone mobile GPUs, namely the GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3080 (which seems strangely slow in this benchmark), in Premier Pro while consuming much less power. But Apple's new integrated GPU cannot get close to performance levels offered by desktop discrete graphics cards, something that Apple needs for its Mac Pro workstations."

[soylentnewsorg]

The reason he compares it to desktops, is because the only thing in the performance test that's comparable, is the desktops. The M1 system tested had double the RAM of the Intel systems. For processing video, RAM makes a huge difference. If your editor can store all the decompressed clips and cache in RAM, your performance increases exponentially. In addition, the "live playback" score is weighed heavily for some reason, when that's an easy test all systems can perform fine, and is not timed.

It's not clickbait, because the article literally tells you both the positives and negatives, as well as titling it "mixed bag" instead of "apple loses." We call this a balanced review.

But I get it. Anything that's not "m1 is revolutionary" is clickbait to the apple crowd.