Mac vs. PC: Speed Differences in Video Editing, Rendering, and Gaming

The video compares Apple's fastest Mac, the M2 Ultra Max Studio, to a $5496 PC.

The Mac Studio has 24 CPU cores, 76 GPU cores, 128GB of memory, and 4TB of storage.

The Mac Studio's high specs make it a powerful machine for demanding tasks, but its price is comparable to a high-end workstation PC.

💻 The speaker compares an overkill liquid cooled PC workstation to the Mac Studio M2 Ultra, emphasizing the portability of the Mac and the ease of use in setting it up.

⚙️ While the Mac Studio requires minimal setup and updates, the PC build requires extensive research, compatibility checks, Windows installation, BIOS update, driver installations, and Windows updates.

💰 The Mac Studio is priced at $7,000, while the custom PC build costs $5,500. The speaker mentions that spending on water cooling hardware and compact case adds to the cost.

💻 The Mac Studio outperforms a $5496 PC in both multi-threaded and single-threaded CPU tests.

🖥️ The PC's RTX 4090 GPU is four times faster than the Mac Studio, allowing for quicker rendering and increased frame output.

🎥 Both the PC and Mac Studio have similar performance in timeline editing, but the Mac Studio's clip stabilization capabilities are impressive.

🔍 The Mac Studio stabilizes clips in 1.6 seconds, significantly faster than a PC build that takes 6 seconds.

🔬 The Mac Studio performs mask tracking about a second quicker than a PC.

⏩ The Mac Studio exports videos faster than a high-performance PC build, even beating the transcript speaker's own setup.

🖥️ The speaker compares the rendering performance of an expensive PC with an Apple Mac, noting that the PC is much faster.

🎮 The speaker tests gaming performance on the Mac and finds that while some games have issues, Fortnite runs well with high FPS.

🖥️🎮 The speaker highlights the ease of connecting a high refresh rate gaming monitor to the Mac and the potential for improved gaming performance.

🖥️ The Apple Pro Display has an impressive resolution and color quality, but it is limited to 60Hz.

🔇 The Mac Studio is remarkably quiet even under full load, which is impressive but could limit its cooling potential.

💡 Apple's hardware, especially the CPU cores, is highly efficient with lower power consumption and higher performance compared to AMD's latest series.

🖥️ The performance per watt on Apple's M2 Ultra is lower than a PC's GPU rendering performance.

🍏📱 Using Apple products in the ecosystem allows for seamless integration across devices and quick file transfers.

💻🖼️🔊 For tasks like video editing, photo editing, and audio work, the Mac Studio performs slightly better than the lower-priced Mac Mini and M2 Pro.

🖥️🎮 In terms of GPU rendering performance, there is a significant difference between Mac and PC, with PC offering much faster rendering times.

⏰ The difference in GPU rendering performance between Mac and PC can result in completing work in minutes on a PC compared to hours on a Mac.

💻 Despite the advantages of Apple's Mac, the speaker prefers to stick with their powerful Mini PC for full-time production use.