The 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Max SoC has been tested on multiple benchmarks while in high-power mode. The 2021 laptop managed to churn out some slightly higher scores in a couple of tests, but on the surface the overall result appeared to be underwhelming. However, it’s possible there was a flaw in the MacBook Pro 16 testing.
We recently reported about Luke Miani’s comprehensive series of benchmark tests for two variants of the MacBook Pro 16, with one model featuring the M1 Pro Apple Silicon and the other sporting an M1 Max SoC. One of the lesser-known features of the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max SoC is its ability to switch from low-power mode to high-power mode to squeeze more performance out of the laptop for use in heavy computational tasks such as video editing or working with 8K content. Basically, high-power mode allows more energy to be used by the cooling fans thus permitting the chip to operate at higher frequencies over longer periods.
Miani put the MacBook Pro 16 through multiple benchmarks that included Final Cut Pro workloads, DaVinci Resolve, Geekbench, GFXBench, and Cinebench R23 among others. Most of the results for the MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max running in high-power mode were very similar to the regular round of testing, with perhaps a few extra points being scored here and there.
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