14" MBP M3 Max 14 cpu 30 gpu Thermal and FCPX Tests
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Testing 14" Macbook Pro M3 Max 14 CPU 30 GPU in 3D Mark, Cinebench and FCPX for temperature, heat throttle and performance.
Did test again plugged in on high power mode.
CPU: 1360 points
Frequency stayed at 3.4 Ghz so not much thermal throttle.
I got my 14" M3 Max 14/30 two days ago and had many headaches before thinking it was a bad choice because of the thermal issues. Today I can gladly report that all this is nonsense. So far, the fans have never kicked in at any moment. It happily runs through the geekbench tests without going over 50 degrees Celsius. The fans remain even completely off during whatever I do.
whats your workflow like?
Could you provide some information about the fan noise during the Cinebench test?
What’s your workflow we love to know
Glad, this is what I wanted to know. I'm not video editor but web developer and was afraid of the loud fans even on binned. Because I will only give it short CPU spikes (basically GPU on lowest), this is good to know. So I can buy it without being pissed of I have returned back to Intel Mac :)
what do you mean by binned?? i'm confused
@@series25a turned off some cores not performing up to specs. You have only 3 models of M3, basic, Pro and Max. All have two variants, one with reduced core count and other, full ie. Max is 14 cpu/30 gpu cores or 16/40 for full. It's the same chip, but "binned" is the one with turned off cores. This is same die, same processor. Chip makers do this to not throw away otherwise perfect chips as it would be very expensive to produce. Lower versions with turned off cores are perfectly fine.
Now, I'm aware that PC gamers like to mark "binned" chip as opposite, the best performing chip able to be over locked to highest frequencies possible, but in terms of Apple, it's opposite - lower performant version of same processor. Actually, for 14" it's better to have less performing Max due to heat the full version produce
But notice how video exporting test never goes above 20% cpu usage. Web development won't really use hardware acceleration and I would say this video is not relevant to your usage.
@@hardaqa well yes, but with web development I will never use performance cores to the maximum.
Anyway, I already decided for M3 Pro, 12 cores, 36/1 TB.
Easier to sell it every year too which I'm going to do. Less value lost, no need to spend so much money suddenly. And for tax write offs I need that anyway
Thanks we were waiting. 👍
Came across this video from Reddit - Do you mind if I reference it / source it in a video where I compare these same specs to my M3 Pro 18C 14 inch?
@@ElioFTWGaming 2023 Macbook Pro 14 - M3 Pro vs M3 Max - M3 Pro 18C GPU - M3 Max 30C GPU - Cinebench + Fan and Heat
ua-cam.com/video/enIPyOWa8_4/v-deo.html
Wasn’t Reddit link but made a UA-cam lol
Thanks Lucas, I was having my doubts about getting the 14 inch m3 max , because of that exact reason im a fcx user and I was wondering if there is any kind of thermal slow down, your video help me a lot to make my mind and actually get the 14 inch instead of the bulky 16 inch, thanks again! let me know if you have any other test you have run.
Could you test how loud the fans are when gaming? For example baldurs gate or lies of pi. Thanks for your videos there aren't so much 14 30 core gpu videos out there.
This is why i clicked this video. I just bought the 14 30 core version and havent seen much content on it.
I have the 14 inch 16/40 m3 max, in baldurs gate it gets to 90 degrees average, fans slightly above half their speed, i'd say 3/4 their speed (yes they are noticible, u'll need to play with headphones). Playing unplugged drains the battery like crazy. Playing max settings and the game runs smooth all the time.
Great video 😊. Could you please tell me how is the battery life performance?
but it's still better than m3 pro 12/18 36 Ram right?
I want to see this 14c m3 max vs the 16c mac on the 14in size.
Hi lucas can you do a battery test between 14 max 30c and 14 pro??
This chip is faster than a 32 core threadripper? - holy shit! - it's not looking too bad. How have you found day to day use? - How's the battery life?
I wanted to see a test with other motionvfx plugins like mmotion blur, mroto ai, mtracker 3D and see how much ram memory this consumed, can you validate this for us?
Is it really a performance bump up from my M1 Pro where I can basically do the same project in the same time? The only reason that Im upgrading to M3 max is for the 3d tracking performance with Motion vex plugins. rotoscoping also is impractical for more than a few minute 5k raw files for me. Have you tried that on M3 Max? Im sure they're awesome times too.
Did you observe any significant fan noise during the 3DMark test? By significant I mean more than what we heard during the FCP video export.
no noise
@@LucasCreativeTech That's good to know. Do you have any actual games you can test to see how the fan behaves - Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Resident Evil Village, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, etc? No big deal if not.
@@saturnotaku let me look into this
@@saturnotaku I've been playing RE: Village at max settings for a week on a 14" M3 Max 14c with mild fan noise.I tried a 16" M3 Pro and had less noise but was playing on mid settings.
Hey Lucas could you please do some thermal and loudness tests when using low power mode.
I can but just so you know, you will not get any throttle or fans unless you are pushing the chips to the max and in that case, why not just go full power to benefit from what you paid for?
@@LucasCreativeTech I got your point.
As you have shown, with full load on CPU the fans go also to full speed, but no throttle. But if you like to have less noise, low power mode could be a solution. So you can decide to work or play more silent, or use the full power of the chip.
I think many of us are debating if we could use a m3max machine as a m3pro but with an option to have extra power in the future, knowing the tradeoffs of noise, battery and thermals between m3pro to to low power mode m3max would be really helpful@@LucasCreativeTech
@@drordthat’s me
What program is that to monitor the cpu frequency
MX Power Gadget - free download
Why wouldn't the fans go on more if instead of throttling? Still think it's less hot than the higher unpinned version? Still want to see how much different some of the pros are with temperature/throttling as well :)
Not sure but I also did a test where I forced the fans to run full blast and it held the frequency at 3.45-3.5 Ghz. If you can keep the overall temperature at 85C, the clocks stay around 3.5-3.6 Ghz. Must be an automatic Mac setting. Realistically, will anyone ever hit such a sustained 100% CPU load to experience this slight drop in speed? You'd have to use specific CPU heavy software
How is the battery life???
watching UA-cam on medium brightness will give you 10 hours
Was high power mode on?
it was set to automatic power setting
@@LucasCreativeTech so does that mean it was not on the high power mode during that cinebench test? As you mentioned in another video the 16” got a higher score but I believe that is because it had high power mode on. So if yours did not have it on during this test it would have probably scored the same as the 16” in the other video which had it on.
@@salikvives1870 The automatic setting should be able to detect the proper power setting. The 16" doesn't throttle down the CPU. It has bigger fans.
I just got the 14 Max 14 core today. Ran the CPU (Multi Core) CINEBENCH 2024 test and got 1400pts on the dot. On high power mode.
14” Max Base model with 36GB Memory and 1TB SSD