Bruh. They tested it on blender 3.3🤦🤦🤦. It doesn’t use the M3 RT cores. Only 4.0 has proper metal RT support. Wish notebookcheck actually used the latest blender version rather than the outdated ones.

In blender 4.0 the M3 Max is between a 4070 and 4080 laptop. Closer to the 4080.

Its tested using blender 3.3. No support for RT cores on M3.

Got a figure for that?

I know. But this was the only head to head 4080 to M3 Max comparision i could find.

I’m impressed it actaully scores so well. 2x perf deficiency means M3 Max should catch up easily.

https://x.com/sebaaltonen/status/1722904062444638465?s=46

Heres a very interesting thread from someone who seems to know more about this and explains it in comparison to nvidia’s gpus.

I wonder if anyone could do a Anandtech style breakdown of these new RT cores. Are they doing something like SER? The 4000 series had major improvements to raytracing compared to the 3000. So when the M3 launched i did not expect them to beat a laptop 4070 in rendering. More like a 3070 was my guess.

https://youtu.be/5Z6EtjccaZc?feature=shared At 5:24 the M3 beats the laptop 4070 by 4 seconds in a render test lasting about a minute.

Also I noticed in geekerwan’s video where the M3 max lost to the 4060 laptop, the original issue of the large GPU of the M series not clocking up immediately still exists. Thats why it seems in their blender test which was just 9 seconds, it lost to the 4060 whereas in this german youtuber test it beat the 4070 because the test was longer allowing the gpu to ramp up fully.

People who buy macs will stick with macs. People who use windows will stick with windows. Id say only Qualcomm needs to be worried, considering the abysmal state of windows on arm and the fact that Microsoft has zero reason to invest in it, due to their codependence on x86 software and gaming,compared to apple who transitioned their entire lineup.