Is Apple Mac Studio as great as Apple claims?

With Apple Mac Studio, you get a perfectly silent “desktop computer,” but for the same price, you can have up to twice the performance with a standard PC setup and upgradeable components. There are also use cases, such as video encoding, which is practically identical to Nvidia’s GPUs, but it costs more. We will look at multiple angles of comparing Apple Mac Studio with M1 Max and M1 Ultra. I will also make a direct comparison between PC setups where it makes sense, and to make things more interesting, I will compare Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 with M1 MAX to M1 Ultra.

Age of Apple M1 Ultra? I do not think so

Let’s start with the main factors that may help you decide whether to buy Macbook Pro or Mac Studio. A fully utilized MacBook Pro has tiny thermal throttling, and it does not stay on maximal CPU frequency. It drops from 3,2 GHz to about 3 GHz. In MacBook Pro, this thermal throttling probably causes cooling limitations in such a…