As we all know, all current Macs with M1 chips have the same chip specifications, so on the official website, the upgrade options available to users are limited to SSD storage space and RAM. we haven’t seen many comparisons to prove the difference between the 8GB RAM machine and the upgraded 16GB RAM option, but foreign media Max Tech shared a video today highlighting the the performance of the 8GB MacBook Pro and the 16GB MacBook Pro.
M1 MacBook Pro 8GB vs 16GB Comparison
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The video includes a series of benchmarks, from Geekbench and Cinebench to raw output tests. MacBook models do show some differences.
A Max-techxcode benchmark that simulates compiled code shows the 16GB model scoring 122, while the 8GB model scores 136. note ⚠️: the lower the score, the better.
Meanwhile the biggest difference in performance between the 8GB MacBook Pro and the 16GB MacBook Pro is that the 8K raw R3D to 4K output took the 8GB MacBook Pro 13.57 seconds to complete, while the 16GB MacBook Pro was able to do it in 5.59 seconds, a time comparable to the 2019 with 32GB memory 16-inch Core i9 MacBook Pro on par with the 16-inch Core i9 MacBook Pro.
Some minor differences were also found in the 4K output test and the Lightroom Classic raw output test, but the results were very close, dropping to 17 seconds in the Lightroom test. the 16GB model even beat the 27-inch version of the iMac.
It’s worth noting that in these benchmark performance tests, Max Tech saw that the M1 processor MacBooks don’t often need to fire up the fan to lower the machine’s temperature, yet this is one reason for the huge difference when comparing the M1 MacBook Pro models to the Intel MacBook Pro models.
Max Tech’s video is worth watching for those trying to choose between 8GB of RAM and 16GB of RAM all together. There seems to be some small performance differences when it comes to benchmarking, especially for system-intensive tasks, but in everyday use, 8GB is more than enough for usage and most people probably don’t need to upgrade to 16GB of running memory at this point, and comparing 1500 is not a trivial amount. In my opinion the M1 processor MacBook upgrade priority hard drive size to priority over memory.
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