OLED MacBook Pro TESTED! I Wasn’t Expecting These RESULTS! — Transcript

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1. 0:00So then guys, Apple has made this new
2. 0:02MacBook Pro lighter and added OLED, but
3. 0:06what happens when you push it and how
4. 0:08does it compare to the mini LED MacBook
5. 0:12Pro? So that's right, guys. Today I want
6. 0:14to see if there's actually any
7. 0:16difference with this new OLED MacBook
8. 0:18Pro. Now, we know we've got essentially
9. 0:20a very similar design MacBook Pro to the
10. 0:23mini LED, and that's not essentially a
11. 0:26bad thing, but really underneath the
12. 0:27hood, is any kind of been any
13. 0:29enhancements here that we can actually
14. 0:31push out, say, the likes of an M5 Max
15. 0:33even further? Have Apple done any
16. 0:35changes there? Well, we're going to find
17. 0:37out today, and I'm going to do you guys
18. 0:39a load of different benchmarks test.
19. 0:42Now, to begin with, the first thing you
20. 0:43guys probably want to know is what are
21. 0:45my specs inside of these? Well, I've got
22. 0:47the identical specs underneath the hood.
23. 0:50We've got the M5 Max, and these are the
24. 0:52top ones. These are the ones with the
25. 0:53top GPU cores and top CPU cores, plus
26. 0:57the top amount of RAM, 128 GB of RAM.
27. 1:02And both of these also have 4 terbte of
28. 1:05storage as well. And don't tell Sam
29. 1:08Alman this cuz otherwise you'll be
30. 1:09coming round to steal my MacBook Pros
31. 1:12and pull out the RAM and pull out the
32. 1:13storage. And with that, one of the first
33. 1:15things you guys probably also want to
34. 1:17know, what is battery life? Well, I'm
35. 1:19going to reveal the secret right now.
36. 1:21And that is is that after doing all
37. 1:23these tests I've done today, have a look
38. 1:25at the battery score right here. You can
39. 1:28see that the MiniLED,
40. 1:31we actually got 34% battery life after
41. 1:34doing all the tests I'm about to show
42. 1:35you. Whereas with the OLED MacBook Pro,
43. 1:39we got 39%
44. 1:41battery life left over. So, I would say
45. 1:44if you were to drain the batteries down
46. 1:46on both of these MacBook Pros, you know,
47. 1:48to dead when the mini LED would get to
48. 1:50zero, I would still expect probably
49. 1:52about 10 to 12% battery life on the OLED
50. 1:55MacBook Pro. So, definitely there is an
51. 1:57improvement there. And that OLED display
52. 1:59is doing a big enhancement there in
53. 2:01helping out with battery life. So, that
54. 2:03is really really good to see. But next
55. 2:06of all, what about performance-wise
56. 2:08then? What's going to happen there?
57. 2:09Well, I've done a couple of synthetic
58. 2:11benchmarks. Now, I'm not the biggest fan
59. 2:13of synthetic benchmarks. I don't think
60. 2:14they reveal the whole story, but I know
61. 2:16you guys love to see them anyway. So,
62. 2:18let's have a look. First of all, SSD
63. 2:20performance on Blackmagic. Now, I've got
64. 2:23a 4 terbte drive in both of these. And
65. 2:26let's have a look at the speeds that
66. 2:27we've got right here. Well, you can see
67. 2:29really there isn't a lot of difference
68. 2:32whatsoever.
69. 2:33So, really for the read speed, you know,
70. 2:36I would say the OLED came ever so
71. 2:38slightly ahead. Not much in it. And the
72. 2:40same with the right speed. It's quite
73. 2:42funny that the mini LED came slightly
74. 2:45ahead. So really there's no difference
75. 2:47there. It seems like Apple are using the
76. 2:49exact same type of, you know, RAM that
77. 2:52we've got in here. The NVME nan storage,
78. 2:55whatever it is there. Of course, it's
79. 2:57not upgradable. So it's exactly the same
80. 2:59there. There's no differences whatsoever
81. 3:02there. But what about say the actual
82. 3:04CPU? What is going on there? Well, I've
83. 3:06done things like Geekbench and Cinebench
84. 3:08as well. So, let's have a look at
85. 3:09Geekbench to begin with. Well, we can
86. 3:12see just like storage, well, the OLED is
87. 3:14ever so slightly out in front on single
88. 3:17core. Hardly anything there. And then
89. 3:19also the same in multi-core performance.
90. 3:22The miniLEDD came slightly ahead. And
91. 3:25this could just be silicon lottery. That
92. 3:27is what I would say. It doesn't seem
93. 3:28like there's really any differences
94. 3:30whatsoever. And to be honest, we had the
95. 3:32same with the likes of the Mac Studio
96. 3:34with the M5 Max when you compared it to
97. 3:36a MacBook Pro Miniledd. Really, the
98. 3:39performance was identical for single
99. 3:41core and for multi-core performance on
100. 3:43kind of like a synthetic benchmark. So,
101. 3:46again, nothing really to really announce
102. 3:48here. And I think to be deadly honest
103. 3:50for the rest of this kind of video I'm
104. 3:52just going to show you really all the
105. 3:53charts instead of me just bouncing
106. 3:55backwards and forwards between showing
107. 3:57what's on the screen running the
108. 3:58benchmarks and you know you guys
109. 4:00whizzing through and flicking through.
110. 4:02It's probably just better for me just to
111. 4:03show you all the charts all in one go.
112. 4:05So that is what we're going to do next
113. 4:07of all. So let's have a look next of all
114. 4:09then at Cinebench to see what that kind
115. 4:11of scoring we got there. Well, we can
116. 4:14see again it's a very very similar
117. 4:16story. In fact, we got 732 on single
118. 4:18core for both of these models. There was
119. 4:21no differences there. And then for
120. 4:23multi-core performance, well, again,
121. 4:25there isn't much in it. The OLED came
122. 4:27out just slightly in front. You wouldn't
123. 4:29even notice this difference. There's
124. 4:31nothing in it. Again, you could call it
125. 4:32silicon lottery. No differences there
126. 4:35whatsoever for Cinebench CPU. Very
127. 4:37similar to like likes of Geekbench. And
128. 4:40then even doing a Geekbench Metal score.
129. 4:42I did this on the GPU side. Well, again,
130. 4:45you can see the mini LED came up ever so
131. 4:47slightly in front. It's nothing again.
132. 4:49It's exactly the same. It looks like,
133. 4:51you know, there's no differences here.
134. 4:54And then even if we move over to 3D Mark
135. 4:56and this is still Nomad Light and this
136. 4:58is the amount of frames per second.
137. 5:00Well, you know, again, we just got the
138. 5:02OLED ever so slightly out in front. It's
139. 5:04not even half a frame per Well, it is
140. 5:06about half a frame per second faster.
141. 5:08It's nothing. You're not going to notice
142. 5:09this difference whatsoever here. And
143. 5:12then even if we went over to so doing
144. 5:14Blender GPU rendering, I got some, you
145. 5:17know, some of those benchmarks ones off
146. 5:19the internet and I've got party tug and
147. 5:20I did swamp. And again, you can see the
148. 5:23difference here in the actual time it
149. 5:25took to render these. On the OLED, it
150. 5:28was ever so slightly slower on Party Tug
151. 5:31and on Swamp it was ever so slightly
152. 5:33faster really. It just swap between
153. 5:35them. There was nothing in it. And
154. 5:37again, if I reran these again, maybe
155. 5:39they would be the other way around. The
156. 5:41main thing is there is no differences
157. 5:43here whatsoever in what we're getting.
158. 5:46But what about say running AI and
159. 5:48running models there? Are there any big
160. 5:50differences? Well, I did the same thing
161. 5:51again. I started running things like
162. 5:53Alarma and I also ran things like LM
163. 5:55Studio. And let me show you some of the
164. 5:57results here on some of the models that
165. 5:58I loaded for local AI. Well, we can see
166. 6:01here for the generation speed of tokens.
167. 6:04Obviously, higher is better here on Quen
168. 6:073.6 here. This is a 35B A3 B here.
169. 6:11That's one. Well, we could see, you
170. 6:13know, it was 147.2
171. 6:15on the OLED and it was 146.8.
172. 6:19Nothing in it whatsoever. And then the
173. 6:21same thing on a Quen 3.8 27B, a very
174. 6:24popular model used out there. If you got
175. 6:27enough RAM for it, well, you can see
176. 6:29that obviously, yeah, same thing again.
177. 6:31It was literally nothing in it. 71.6 to
178. 6:3470.8 eight and then obviously using a
179. 6:36higher condensed kind of model here. So
180. 6:39yeah, really nothing at all. Again, the
181. 6:42mini LED was ever so slightly in front
182. 6:45and again there's another even stronger
183. 6:46model there was even been condensed even
184. 6:49further down again. And uh yeah, not
185. 6:52much difference whatsoever. We got like
186. 6:5421 tokens per second as it were. There
187. 6:57is really no differences whatsoever what
188. 7:00we've got here for just running Quen on
189. 7:03local AI and even switching over to the
190. 7:06likes of GPT OSS and this was 120B and
191. 7:10obviously I did a short prompt a
192. 7:11document test and the documents first
193. 7:13token kind of test how long it took to
194. 7:15get that again look at the scores
195. 7:17there's nothing really in it again we
196. 7:19got 92 for both of them we got 68 we got
197. 7:2269 just we got 68 you know six here and
198. 7:25then we got 69 just over nothing at all
199. 7:28in that document test and then document
200. 7:30first token to actually appear.
201. 7:32Obviously lower is better. The mini LED
202. 7:34was not even half a second faster. It
203. 7:37was nothing in it whatsoever. So for
204. 7:39even just doing local AI, there's going
205. 7:41to be no difference if you get yourself
206. 7:43a miniLEDD uh M5 Max or if you get
207. 7:45yourself the OLED, you know, M5 Max
208. 7:48there. But what happens if you do say
209. 7:49video editing? Surely that makes a
210. 7:51difference because obviously it takes a
211. 7:52bit longer to render. Well, you'd be
212. 7:54surprised. Again, it didn't really do
213. 7:55much at all. You can see here I did a
214. 7:58ProRes, you know, 422 export. And uh
215. 8:01yeah, the M5 Max Miniledd took about 1
216. 8:04second quicker than the likes of the
217. 8:06OLED M5 Max. So, not really much in it
218. 8:09whatsoever. It was basically identical
219. 8:12there. And then I did a Final Cut 4K
220. 8:14here, uh export here in Heav, uh you
221. 8:17know, most of us use, you know, maybe
222. 8:19for doing like YouTube and whatever. The
223. 8:20OLED came out slightly in faster. It was
224. 8:222 seconds faster. that's not going to
225. 8:24make a night and day difference to you
226. 8:26if you had a uh you know miniLEDD
227. 8:29version. There's nothing really in it
228. 8:31whatsoever. And you know, even if I did
229. 8:33an 8K RAW here, same thing as well. Also
230. 8:36rendering a timeline, it took 39 seconds
231. 8:39on the OLED, it took 41 seconds on the
232. 8:42mini LED. Really, you don't have time to
233. 8:44make yourself a coffee in 2 seconds
234. 8:46there. It's not going to make any kind
235. 8:48of difference. And just in case you want
236. 8:50to know, I also ran this on Da Vinci
237. 8:52Resolve 4K. I did the same sort of thing
238. 8:54into the fiveinut heav export project
239. 8:57here. And uh yeah, the OLED took 33
240. 9:00seconds and the miniLEDD took 31 seconds
241. 9:03to export the exact same project. No
242. 9:06differences here whatsoever really. And
243. 9:09then moving over, if you do photographs
244. 9:11and things like this in Lightroom, I did
245. 9:13an AI D noiseise and it was the same
246. 9:15kind of thing. a single photo processing
247. 9:17here and the time to do that. Lower is
248. 9:19better. And uh yeah, the mini LED took
249. 9:22about 1 second quicker, 10 seconds
250. 9:23instead of 11. Really not a night and
251. 9:26day kind of difference. And even with
252. 9:28super resolution. So this is processing
253. 9:30it again. They both came out basically
254. 9:33identical here on my kind of stopwatch
255. 9:34when I was doing this. And then even the
256. 9:37same again when I was doing Lightroom
257. 9:38photo export here. This is 500 pictures
258. 9:41I was exporting at 42 megapixels. and
259. 9:45lower is better really. Yeah, the mini
260. 9:47LED took about 2 seconds faster. There
261. 9:49is nothing whatsoever in this. There's
262. 9:51no differences whatsoever. But then
263. 9:54after this, I decided to run Cyberpunk
264. 9:562077 to see what the frames per second
265. 9:59were like there on both of that made any
266. 10:01difference whatsoever. Well, I loaded up
267. 10:03the games and I did a benchmark test and
268. 10:05I can tell you right now really again
269. 10:08there was no difference. The M5 Max OLED
270. 10:11uh gave me an average of about 85 frames
271. 10:14per second. This was on the ultra preset
272. 10:16here. And the M5 Max Miniledd gave me 87
273. 10:20frames per second. Again, no differences
274. 10:22really. You couldn't really as you play
275. 10:24the game notice any differences. It was
276. 10:26not night and day difference whatsoever.
277. 10:28So, I think we can conclude just with
278. 10:30that that if you've got yourself a
279. 10:32miniLEDD MacBook Pro, you're considering
280. 10:34getting yourself um you know a cheaper
281. 10:37version or you want the performance of
282. 10:38the M5 Max, but you don't want to really
283. 10:40pay out for the OLED display. Well,
284. 10:42yeah, get yourself the mini LED version
285. 10:44if you can get it at a good price so
286. 10:46far. But surely it makes a big
287. 10:47difference. You're thinking maybe in
288. 10:49kind of thermal. So, if we pushed it out
289. 10:51and let's do like say a proper like
290. 10:53benchmark for a long time pushed it out
291. 10:55that's going to make a big difference.
292. 10:56Well, what I did was I ran Cinebench GPU
293. 10:59and I ran this for 10 minutes. And when
294. 11:01I got to around about 8 and 1 half
295. 11:03minutes or so into that test, that's
296. 11:05when I measured the temperatures here on
297. 11:07my thermal camera. As you can see right
298. 11:10here, I was measuring on both of these
299. 11:12versions. And let's have a look at the
300. 11:14scores then what we got right here or
301. 11:15the temperatures that we got right here.
302. 11:17Well, we can see there is not a lot of
303. 11:20difference. Again, Apple looks like they
304. 11:22haven't really redesigned it. I know the
305. 11:24thermal video kind of showed a little
306. 11:25bit of a difference there and how the
307. 11:26heat was dispensed, but it's not really
308. 11:28making too much of a difference here on
309. 11:30the likes of the mini LED here on the
310. 11:32center where the CPU GPU kind of sits
311. 11:35there. Well, it was 47.1°
312. 11:38C. It's 116° 8 fah. And you know,
313. 11:42compared to the M5 Max OLED, well, that
314. 11:44was 46.9°
315. 11:46C compared to 116.4°
316. 11:50F here. So yeah, ever so slightly
317. 11:55cooler. Really nothing in it between
318. 11:58both of these. And then the same thing
319. 12:00again looking at where the fan exhaust
320. 12:02is or where the most hottest part is.
321. 12:04You would say here where it pushes out
322. 12:05all the heat. Well, again, same thing on
323. 12:08the mini LED. It was 47.6° C. It was
324. 12:12117°.7
325. 12:13fah here. And uh yeah, compared to the
326. 12:17one on the OLED, it was 47.2° C. Well,
327. 12:21is 117° Fahrenheit dead? Again, really
328. 12:24not even a degree difference between
329. 12:26both of these either in Celsius or in
330. 12:28Fahrenheit. It's really not making a
331. 12:30difference here. So, I think what we can
332. 12:33conclude from doing all these kind of
333. 12:34benchmarks here is just one big
334. 12:37difference and that is the OLED display
335. 12:39makes a difference to do with battery
336. 12:41life and that is it really. So, if you
337. 12:43were looking to go, oh, I'm going to buy
338. 12:45the OLED because it's going to give me
339. 12:46better performance and it's going to
340. 12:47give me better everything. Well, no, not
341. 12:50really. It's only going to improve your
342. 12:52battery life and it's only going to
343. 12:54improve it by around about 10 to 12%
344. 12:56compared to buying yourself a mini LED
345. 12:58as we learned right at the beginning of
346. 13:00this video. That is really going to be
347. 13:01it. And I'd be saying this right now, if
348. 13:04you can pick up the miniLEDD MacBook Pro
349. 13:07for say, you know, $600
350. 13:10less than saying buying your one with an
351. 13:12OLED display and you're not that
352. 13:14bothered by touchscreen and you're not
353. 13:16overly bothered by, you know, actually
354. 13:18having an OLED display, I'd be picking
355. 13:21up the miniLEDD version because yeah,
356. 13:23it's the exact same chip. And as we've
357. 13:25seen today, you know, from the results,
358. 13:26there is nothing in it. There's no
359. 13:28differences really whatsoever. it's
360. 13:30worth saving your money getting that
361. 13:33model than getting the OLED. But what I
362. 13:35would also be saying with that is that
363. 13:36if you do say have a newer MacBook Pro,
364. 13:39let's say if you still have say an M3
365. 13:41Pro, an M3 Max for example, or you know
366. 13:44you got M4, M5 or maybe some of you guys
367. 13:46even got M2, I would say just wait to
368. 13:49the M7 because that is where we will
369. 13:51probably see a bit more of a jump in
370. 13:53change and it's possible that Apple
371. 13:55might not even bring out a miniLEDD
372. 13:57version of that M7 version of the M7 Pro
373. 14:00or the M7 Max. So I would just maybe
374. 14:02just wait until then potentially. But
375. 14:04what I would be saying, if you're not
376. 14:06really bothered by the screen, hunt down
377. 14:08a miniLEDD version. It saves you the
378. 14:10money. It gives you the exact same
379. 14:12amount of performance as we've seen
380. 14:13today. And really, I would say to lose
381. 14:1610% battery, 12% battery, and it's going
382. 14:19to save you $600, for example.
383. 14:21Personally, I'd say it's worth it for
384. 14:22that. But that's just my opinion there.
385. 14:25But really, guys, that is it. That is
386. 14:27what we've seen today. There isn't
387. 14:28really any differences whatsoever. But I
388. 14:30hope this video has helped you out there
389. 14:32because I know some of you guys wanted
390. 14:33to know, did it make a big difference?
391. 14:34Has Apple redesigned this to push out
392. 14:36those chips further? And clearly it
393. 14:38shows they really haven't. But let me
394. 14:41know what your thoughts are on this
395. 14:42though. Did you expect any big changes?
396. 14:44Were you expecting anything else to be
397. 14:45seen? Well, let me know your thoughts in
398. 14:47the comments below. And on that note as
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