YouTube digital channel Max Tech compared the most powerful macOS and Windows notebooks in the latest video, and wanted to understand the difference in performance between the two.
The Apple macOS camp is the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Max, and the Microsoft Windows camp is the MSI Titan GT77HX gaming notebook.
The above video has built-in machine-translated subtitles. If it cannot be displayed, you can jump to station B to watch it. According to the information shared in the original video, the running sub-node information is as follows:
MSI Titan vs M2 Max – 00:00
Specs & Prices – 00:30
Geekbench 5 CPU Test – 02:51
Geekbench 5 Metal/Cuda GPU – 04:25
SSD Speed Comparison – 04:57
Web Browsing Performance – 05:07
Figma Web Design Test – 05:37
Cinebench R23 & Thermals – 07:52
3DMark Wild Life Gaming – 11:03
Blender 3D Rendering – 12:18
Lightroom Classic Photo Editing – 13:22
DR18 4K BRAW Denoise – 16:10
DR18 4K HEVC Video Editing – 17:13
DR18 6K BRAW Video Editing – 18:52
Which Laptop is BETTER? – 20:06
The specifications of MSI Titan GT77HX attached are as follows:
Intel Core i9 HX series processor (up to 24 cores, including 8 P cores and 16 E cores)
250W (CPU+GPU) with MSI OverBoost Ultra optimized performance (stable over 5.0GHz frequency)
RTX 4090 graphics card
Cooling upgraded to shared pipeline design (CPU and GPU have 2 shared pipelines)
4K 144 Hz MiniLED option (not available in engineering samples)
RGB Design: Logo and Mystic Light on the back (cooling part)
Mechanical keyboard with Cherry switches
In the Figma export high-resolution wallpaper test, the 16-inch M2 Max MacBook Pro exported in 1 minute and 35 seconds, and the MSI exported in 1 minute and 31 seconds.
In the Cinebench run test, the peak CPU power is 36W, and MSI’s power is 207.7W. On the R23 performance-per-watt test, the 16-inch M2 Max MacBook Pro scored 400, while the MSI scored 205. In the R23 Stress Test, the 16-inch M2 Max MacBook Pro scored 13,572 points, compared with MSI’s 27,573 points.
