There are differences while gaming and we measure between 35.1 dB(A) in Witcher 3 and 43.2 dB(A) in Resident Evil Village and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Full CPU load will result in 28 dB(A) at 2800 rpm and our stress test in 43.2 dB(A) at 3600 rpm. The overall fan speeds are also lower compared to the smaller MacBook Pro 14. As soon as you stress the laptop for longer periods, the fans will gradually start spinning faster, but the fan murmur is hardly noticeable at the lowest fan speeds. The two fans are usually deactivated when you only perform daily tasks and Apple still uses a very defensive fan curve, so short peak load scenarios do not result in fan activity, either. We cannot record the fps numbers and the number of titles with integrated benchmarks is limited, so we only have a small number of results. Once you have these two settings turned off, the game runs extremely well at 70-80 fps and the performance is very stable. HBAO also creates a problem where areas are too dark, so you can only use SSAO. For example, we were not able to use our Ultra preset for GTA V and the same applies for Witcher 3, because the game crashes when Nvidia HairWorks is active. Popular Windows titles like Grand Theft Auto or The Witcher 3 also runs smoothly with high details, but you have to be careful with some settings. Apple also advertises an optimized version of No man’s Sky for quite a while, but there is still no release date. Resident Evil Village is certainly the best example for a native Apple silicon title right now, which runs completely smooth in 1080p and maximum details (100-140 fps) and the performance is roughly comparable to a GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. The graphics performance is stable under sustained workloads and even on battery power, which is definitely an advantage over Windows laptops with discrete GPUs. Native benchmarks like 3DMark Wildlife Extreme Unlimited show that the M2 Max GPU can even compete with RTX 3080 ( Lenovo Legion 7 16) or RTX 3080 Ti laptops ( Alienware x15), while the Geekbench performance is roughly on par with the RTX 3060. But it also shows that it is not easy to utilize the full potential of the GPU. However, we only recorded this GPU consumption in the Novabench GPU tests, all other benchmarks topped out at 54W and we usually saw between 46-48W in most tests, so the overall efficiency is better than before. We can see an improvement of 24-28 % over the old M1 Max with 32 GPU cores in most benchmarks, but the power consumption also increased from 44 up to 64 Watts. The M2 Max SoCs are available with 30 or 38 GPU cores clocked at up to 1.4 GHz. Apple changed the core configuration for the processor as well as the GPUs and increased the number of cores.
0 kommentar(er)
