Fresh comparisons have appeared that liken the graphic power of the M1 Max to that of the Sony PS5.
It’s barely been 24 hours since the new generation of Apple Silicon was revealed, with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips featuring inside the new MacBook Pro laptops at the Apple Unleashed event on October 18. Despite it still being wet behind the ears, a few comparisons have already been made between the M1 Max’s graphics potential and that of the Sony PlayStation 5. Given that one product is a gaming console and the other is a powerful workstation laptop, it’s pretty unfair to make this comparison at all, but let’s unpack what’s actually going on. As reported by WCCFTech, YouTuber Vadim Yuryev provided some performance stats of the M1 Max, claiming that it can deliver 10.40 Teraflops of performance against the 10.28 achieved by the PS5. On paper, this would paint the console as graphically inferior to a MacBook Pro 14-inch powered by the flagship M1 Max SoC (system-on-a-chip), but theories will only get you so far. In reality, the M1 Max being faster than the PS5 in Teraflops performance doesn’t automatically make it a better piece of hardware. There are other performance categories to consider, such as the M1 Max’s bandwidth of 400GB/s stacking against the PS5’s speedier 448GB/s.
