The P cores were assessed with a workload of eight threads run at maximum Quality of Service (QoS), which fully loads all the P cores without any contribution from the E cores.

These were tested separately using tight loops of assembly code in AsmAttic. My own app Mints for Neural Engine performance.īoth the M1 Pro and Max have the same general-purpose CPU cores: eight Performance (P) cores, and two Efficiency (E) cores.My own app Stibium for SSD performance,.My own app AsmAttic for in-core performance,.Mac Studio M1 Max, 24-core GPU, 32 GB memory, 2 TB SSD, costing £2599, to which you must add a keyboard, input device and display.MacBook Pro 16-inch M1 Pro, 16-core GPU, 32 GB memory, 2 TB SSD, costing £3,399.Now that I have a Studio (Max) sat behind my M1 Pro MacBook Pro, this article compares their benchmark results. A month ago, I explained what performance to expect in Apple’s new Mac Studio models.