


It goes without saying it absolutely smokes the Intel-based Mac mini it replaces, but that system was so old that we don’t even use the same tools to benchmark it anymore. It’s a nice upgrade from the M1 Pro and obviously a lot better than the M2. Take the gap between the M1 and M2 and apply that to the M1 Pro and there you have it-a better Neural Engine, and usually somewhere between 10 percent and 20 percent better performance depending on what the limiting factors are. The M2 Pro is about what we’d expect, performance-wise. But the faster CPU and Neural Engine in the M2 Pro make it faster than the M1 Max when applying the video stabilizing feature. The M1 Max has two video encoding engines, so the M2 Pro can’t quite keep up with its exporting speed, and the M2 Pro is similar in performance to the M1 Pro.
