"My first utterance of a Jesus f*cking Christ slipped from my open mouth when I loaded up Cyberpunk 2077 on the M5 Max MacBook Pro. I considered pushing the game to Ray Tracing Ultra settings. Just to give it a fighting chance, I left MetalFX upscaling settings on. Then the game loaded, and I saw I was managing a frame rate around 50 fps running at a moderately high resolution."
"I could usually get about that same performance with a gaming laptop sporting a high-end Intel chip and a mobile version of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 discrete GPU. Over just a few minutes, with the fans kicking in, the game's frame rate started to dip. But even so, the M5 Max MacBook Pro was hanging in there at around 37 fps."
"The 14-inch model starts at $3,600 with an 18-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 36GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage. The unit Apple sent to me for review included the upgraded 40-core GPU version of the M5 Max chip and 128GB of unified memory. Those two specs alone would make this laptop cost $5,100."
The 14-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro represents Apple's most powerful laptop chip to date, capable of running demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077 at high settings with respectable frame rates around 50 fps initially, declining to approximately 37 fps under sustained load. The machine's processing power appears to exceed what its thermal design can efficiently handle, with fans operating at maximum capacity during intensive tasks. Pricing is substantial, with base configurations starting at $3,600 and fully configured units reaching $5,850 when including premium specifications like the 40-core GPU, 128GB unified memory, 4TB storage, and nano-texture display. The exceptional performance raises fundamental questions about practical applications and value proposition for typical users.
Read at gizmodo.com
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