# PC vs Macbook Pro for rendering speed **URL:** \ **Category:** Hardware\ **Created:** [May 29, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000 "2023-05-29T08:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![3dsgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/3e96dc/32.png) [@3dsgar](https://forums.chaos.com/u/3dsgar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/1 "2023-05-29T08:35:45Z")
I’m thinking of changing from a desktop pc to Macbook Pro as I need to be more mobile. I know there’s a lot more to it than just the hardware so hoping someone has a relatively straight forward answer for me… Would a Macbook Pro perform better/worse or similar to an Intel setup based on the comparison below. I’m currently running a fairly old Intel(R) Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.41 GHz (32GB RAM) What I’m looking to replace it with is the Macbook Pro Apple M2 Max with 12‑core CPU, 38‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine (96GB unified memory) Appreciate any answers that’ll help me make my decision. ---
**Author:** ![jmdvella](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/jmdvella/32/235253_2.png) [@jmdvella](https://forums.chaos.com/u/jmdvella)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/2 "2023-05-29T11:53:09Z")
Im sure people here with experience with both platforms can give you better insight, but just looking at the benchmark results can give you a rough idea: [![bench.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/3X/e/2/e2c2d22e79782e101f043a4cad8688d935682bbb.jpeg)](https://ibb.co/68Kp40F) ---
**Author:** ![3dsgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/3e96dc/32.png) [@3dsgar](https://forums.chaos.com/u/3dsgar)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/3 "2023-05-30T01:25:16Z")
Exellent, thank you James! That’s the answer I was looking for. Although I failed to mention I use Corona (so CPU and not GPU based rendering) Would this chart be GPU benchmark only? ---
**Author:** ![jmdvella](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/jmdvella/32/235253_2.png) [@jmdvella](https://forums.chaos.com/u/jmdvella)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/4 "2023-05-30T05:22:44Z")
This is from the Corona benchmark, so only CPU scores. > **[Benchmark Results | Corona Renderer](https://corona-renderer.com/benchmark/results)** ---
**Author:** ![3dsgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/3e96dc/32.png) [@3dsgar](https://forums.chaos.com/u/3dsgar)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/5 "2023-05-30T05:39:52Z")
Thank you, much appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![CambridgeCreative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@CambridgeCreative](https://forums.chaos.com/u/CambridgeCreative)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/6 "2023-05-30T11:03:36Z")
Going by price, i can see a Macbook Pro Apple M2 Max for around £3500 on the internet. You could get an intel i9 13900HX with 64GB RAM and NVidia RTX 4090 for £2778. The Cinebench R23 single and multicore scores for the Intel (13900K desktop version) are quite a bit better than the M2 Max. The laptop version won’t be much slower than the desktop. ---
**Author:** ![CambridgeCreative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@CambridgeCreative](https://forums.chaos.com/u/CambridgeCreative)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/7 "2023-05-30T11:29:13Z")
Some interesting Cinebench R23 scores can be seen here [https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-list/cinebench-scores](https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-list/cinebench-scores) or [https://www.cgdirector.com/cinebench-r23-scores-updated-results/](https://www.cgdirector.com/cinebench-r23-scores-updated-results/) Most PC and Mac CPUs are listed on these. When speccing my PCs, i usually have this website open and have a custom PC website open at the same time, to see what is the most affordable for my budget and modelling/rendering needs. ---
**Author:** ![3dsgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/3e96dc/32.png) [@3dsgar](https://forums.chaos.com/u/3dsgar)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/8 "2023-05-31T05:17:20Z")
Thanks for that info, it has me thinking now… BUT I really have my heart set on converting to Apple as all my other devices are Apple. Will definitely look into this a bit more before making a final decision! ---
**Author:** ![Juraj\_Talcik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecccb3/32.png) [@Juraj\_Talcik](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Juraj_Talcik)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/9 "2023-05-31T07:16:30Z")
As long as you will have powerful windows desktop or use cloud services to render bigger final images, you will be fine. Contemporary Intel and AMD laptops are roughly 2X faster in multithreaded rendering, but they only got that fast in last year, before that, M1/2 architecture decimated everything. Also, the big Windows workstation laptops are heavy and loud machines, while Macbook is beautiful, still very thin thing. If you want to get Macbook, get Macbook. It’s not purely rational decision, you need to enjoy working on the machine and if your heart is set you would just be dissapointed by else. ---
**Author:** ![3dsgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/3e96dc/32.png) [@3dsgar](https://forums.chaos.com/u/3dsgar)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pc-vs-macbook-pro-for-rendering-speed/156000/10 "2023-05-31T12:31:47Z")
Thanks, I appreciate the honesty.