Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “14” MacBook Pro M1 Pro vs 13″ MacBook Pro M1 – Worth The Upgrade?”.
Hey, what’s up folks how’s it going. This watch hope you guys are all doing well and today we’re going to be taking a look at the new generation macbook pro powered by the m1 pro chip. We have the 14.2 inch version and we’re going to be specifically doing a head-to-head comparison between the 13-inch previous generation macbook, pro powered by the first gen m1 chip. Now the upgrades on the new 14 and 16 inch generation macbook pros is probably the most significant that we’ve seen on the macbook pro lineup since the original kind of unibody design, where the internal processing capabilities of the new m1 pro and m1 max have significantly improved From the already relatively fast first generation m1 processor, but they’ve actually taken some steps backwards from a design perspective.
Firstly, in terms of ports and connectivity options, we have the sd card reader and hdmi connection back onto the macbook pros like the old school generation. Beyond that, you still have a three separate thunderbolt 4 connection, slash usbc connections as well as a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, and they brought back the magnetically attaching magsafe power connection, which is great in the sense that you don’t have to sacrifice a thunderbolt connection to actually Power and charge your battery, unlike the previous generation 13-inch macbook pro, which really only had two thunderbolt 4 connections. Furthermore, the more squared off boxier shape of the outer shell definitely harkens back to the early 2000s powerbook design that later became the first generation macbook pros, and it is definitely a good homage to that famous design that everyone knows and loves. Now, with the accommodation of the thinner bezels on the 14-inch compared to the 13-inch, the overall footprint of both pcs hasn’t really changed drastically the 14 inch being about eight millimeters wider and about nine millimeters deeper, and the thickness is also very similar as well. Both are 15 millimeters weight wise.
The 14 inch has gone up 200 grams, weighing 1.6 kilos versus 1.4 kilos on the previous generation move forward. Another change is regarding the built-in speakers on both platforms with the new generation having significant upgrades and having six high fidelity speaker system with force, canceling woofers compared to stereo speakers on the 13-inch macbook pro, which were actually pretty decently sound. They had a good amount of amplitude as well, but compared to the six speaker system on the 14. Is they definitely don’t deliver the same level of dynamic range, low, end punch on the bass frequencies and definitely don’t project the same level of volume in larger spaces or rooms, and if you’re, listening to music or any other audio source from videos is definitely nicer to Share that content with many other people, thanks to the speaker system on the new generation laptop now another slight difference on the newer generation macbook pros is now we have a 1080p 30fps front, front-facing facetime camera, which hasn’t really changed too much from an aspect ratio. It’S still quite boxy same overall focal length which is perfect for video conferencing and things like that, but definitely a difference in terms of video quality. Take a look okay. So now we switch over to the 720p 30fps facetime camera found on the previous generation macbook pros, and indeed many of the older generation and mac brooks, have been utilizing. This camera, for god, knows how many years and it definitely needed that upgrade.
Normally only can you see that the dynamic range is better, it doesn’t blow up the highlight information. The shadow details, better colors are definitely looking better as well and obviously with that greater resolution comes better clarity and sharpness super important these days when everyone’s doing remote work and more and more video conferencing. Now, in terms of the microphone configuration, we have a triple array with a directional beam foaming pattern, so it does a good job in terms of capturing your voice with a low signal to noise ratio. As far as i can tell, the microphone quality is the same on both laptops. There is, however, as we mentioned before, a pretty big difference from a video standpoint now, in terms of battery, the capacity has gone up quite a bit at 70 watt hours on the 14 inch versus 58.2 hours now, in spite of the smaller capacity according to apple, The 13 inch should actually get a better battery life up to 17 hours of wireless web 20 hours of video playback versus on the 14 inch you’re. Looking at 11 hours of wireless web use and 17 hours of video playback.
Now we did our own battery life drain test, basically playing a quicktime video on a loop 50 brightness with the wireless antennas off, including wi-fi bluetooth, things like that and simply measured the run time, which was 15 hours, 12 minutes on the 14 inch macbook pro and The 13 inch macbook pro got an impressive 23 hours and 25 minutes move forward. Let’S talk about the keyboard and track pack combination, which is actually quite similar on both firstly, they’re both using the force touch track pad with the haptic feedback system and multi-touch capabilities, both feel great plenty of surface area on both. Interestingly enough, the 13 inch is slightly wider about three millimeters coming at 133 millimeters across versus 130 millimeters across on the 14 inch, but both are 82 millimeters in terms of height. The keyboards are both are actually quite similar in the fact that they’re using the newer generation scissor style mechanism on the key switches. So you have a decent amount of key travel while still being relatively low profile, but not ultra low profile, like the butterfly mechanism system. That they had in a couple of generations of macbooks which are absolutely terrible to type on and although both keyboards feel very tactile comfortable to type on. For some reason, the 14-inch feels a little bit more. Springier has a faster coil over time and you can kind of tell by the way the keys sound themselves have a listen.
Moreover, you can see that we now have a full-size function row at the top of the keyboard on the 14-inch macbook pro versus the previous generation utilize, the touch bar interface, which is really cool in the sense that you have special controls and functions based on specific Applications you’re using at the time in addition to the fact that you’re going to have all these extra customizable controls on the top of the keyboard, which you won’t have on the newer generation and macbook pros, including the fact that you don’t have control over your backlight. Brightness settings on the keyboard itself: you either have to do it on os 10, using the control center interface or download a third-party application like carabiner elements that will remap those controls onto f5 or f6 or whatever you like. Furthermore, on the top right hand side, you still have the touch id slash power button on both macbooks. Besides the fact on the 14 inches the larger button, they both work and function in the same way moving forward. Let’S talk about the big upgrade, that’s right at face value, and that is the displays on both these two. We mentioned the size before about 14.2 inch diagonally on the newer generation versus 13.3 inch.
Both are utilizing similar display technology liquid crystal display with led backlit, but the 14.2 inch is xdr certified and has 120 hertz refresh rate, not to mention a higher native resolution of 3024x19c. Giving a ppi count of 253 versus the 13 inch display had a maximum refresh rate of 60 hertz native resolution of 2560 by 1600, with a 226 ppi account, the maximum brightness level was rated at 500 nits versus a thousand nits on the xdr display, and the Peak brightness level can actually go up to 1600 nits on the 14 inch, which is super impressive in person. Both displays look absolutely fantastic, but you can definitely tell that the dynamic range, brightness levels and clarity is superior on the 14 inch, both in videos hopefully, but especially in person. On top of that, it’s nice to have those thinner bezels on the 14 inch definitely looks a lot more modern, but unfortunately you do have a top mounted camera bump, similar to the iphones, which is kind of unfortunate. I wish they made perhaps the top border a little bit thicker in order to accommodate the camera housing similar to the look that you get on the ipad pros. Nonetheless, perhaps the biggest upgrade definitely has to be the a double refresh rate of 120 hertz.
Pro motion. Definitely nicer to watch fast moving action and sports in that mode, as well as gaming, becomes a a very fluid and dynamic experience compared to a 60 hertz display, as any gamer will tell you now. Let’S move on to the mean potatoes of this video, and that is dealing with the m1 pro and pro max socs from apple in terms of the actual transistor account compared to the first generation m1 found on the 13 inch, which had 16 a billion you’re. Looking at double that at 33 billion on the pro version and 57 billion transistors on the pro max variant of the chip, additionally, the m1 pro or pro max can go up to a 10 cores with 32 cores on the gpu and versus you’re.
Looking at 8 core gpu 8 core cpu on most of the variants on the original m1 chip, in terms of our specific configuration on the m1 13 inch macbook pro, we have the base model so 8 core cpu, 8 core gpu, and we also have the base Model version of the m1 pro chip on the 14 inch macbook pro, which has eight cores comprised of six performance cores two efficiency cores, as well as a 14 core gpu. Now, in order to understand the performance differences between the two we’re going to take a look at a number of different benchmarks that i ran for the past couple of days. First, taking a look at the overall cpu performance using cinebench r23 now on the multi-core performance score on the previous generation, we got 7 700 points versus 9 500 points on the m1 pro chip and on the single core, both scored around 1500 points on geekbench 5. The m1 pro again significantly higher on the multi-core performance score of scoring over 9 900 points versus 7 600 points and both are very similar in terms of single core performance of getting around 1700 points in terms of the gpu performance using geekbench metal, the 8 core Gpu found on the original m1 chip scored around 21 000 points versus our 14 core m1. Pro gpu scored around 36 000 points. Furthermore, in order to test the ram performance, we use amorphous, mem mark and the sequential parameter at 128k, we got almost double the performance in terms of read and write measurements with the previous generation scoring around 46 gigabytes.
A second in terms of read versus 102 gigabytes. A second and the write speed on the previous gen was 64 gigabytes versus the newer generation memory modules, scored 114 gigabytes a second additionally, the internal ssd read and write. Sequential performance has almost doubled as well using blackmagic speed test. We got two gigabytes, a second right, 2.8 gigabytes.
A second read on the previous gen versus the m1 pro got 4.8 and 5.3 gigabytes a second write and read respectively. Additionally, in terms of the graphical performance using the gfx metal, aztec ruins synthetic benchmark, we got an average frame rate of 93.4 frames per second on the m1 pro a gpu versus at the m1 gpu scored around 55.1 average frames per second in the exact same benchmark. Furthermore, using unigine’s valley benchmark 1920 by 1080 at ultra detail settings, we got an average frame rate of 47.8 frames per second on the m1 versus the m1 pro scored around 74.5 average frames per second. Additionally, if you’re going to be doing any kind of multimedia video editing, perhaps using premiere pro, we exported the exact same 5, minute 4k 30 fps project on both laptops and the total time it took to export that video file took around six minutes 56 seconds on The m1 13 inch macbook pro versus the new generation m1 pro rendered it in less than half the time of three minutes 17 seconds now.
For to summarize all the highlights of each macbook, starting from the newer generation 14 inch, i would say: firstly, the port connectivity options are definitely a big highlight the speakers sound better. It has the better facetime 1080p camera compared to the 720p camera and the display in pretty much every ways from an experience. Standpoint is far better besides the fact that it does have that camera bump and the internals are significantly faster, as we’ve demonstrated now in terms of highlights on the previous generation, m1 13 inch macbook pro.
Firstly, you do get the touch bar attachment on the top of the keyboards, which is missing from the newer generation. It does have the slightly better battery performance and the fact probably the biggest one. It is a hell of a lot cheaper from the base model configuration on both of these two starting from 12.99 versus the cheapest version of the 14 inch starts around two thousand dollar seven hundred dollar difference between the two, which is pretty much the price of a Decent windows pc these days, i would definitely love to know what you guys think of the new generation macbook pros.
Do you think it’s worth upgrading to compared to the m1 versions? I probably don’t think so, but if you come from a much older previous generation, a macbook or any older generation laptops, it definitely is extremely fast rivaling. The performance of really powerful, desktop pcs and definitely is a lot more convenient from reports and connectivity standpoint. As we mentioned before, and really has minimal weaknesses compared to the previous generation design. Furthermore, if you haven’t done so already, please make sure you subscribe to the website like this video and, if you’re interested, to see how this new generation macbook pro compares against the best offering from microsoft with the surface laptop studio. We have that comparison on the channel as well. You can check out the description to find that link.
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