Apple's M4 Max beats RTX 4070 in Blender, but falls short of the RTX 4080 Super

What just happened? Apple launched its refreshed MacBook Pro in early November, and initial benchmarks revealed that the M4 Max outperforms both the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X in Geekbench 6. Now, new tests indicate that the chip's GPU may also surpass the performance of Nvidia's RTX 4070.

The impressive test results come from Blender Open Data, where the M4 Max scored an average of 5,205 points across 38 tests. This places it just below the laptop version of the RTX 4080, which achieved 5,326 points, but well ahead of the RTX 3080 Ti and the desktop RTX 4070. The RTX 3080 Ti scored 5,193 points, while the RTX 4070 managed only 5,128 points.

Additional evidence of the M4 Max's power comes from YouTuber and Blender expert Robbie Tilton, who tested the M4 chips alongside various Nvidia ...