If you are stuck choosing between the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max, you now have one more thing to consider, aside from size. The question was always there whether the M5 Max was being held back by the smaller chassis. Now that the test results for both these machines are out, the answer appears to be a resounding yes.
How much performance loss are we talking about?
The folks at Notebookcheck ran the same tests on both 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros powered by top-of-the-line M5 Max chips with 40 GPU cores, and the results were insightful.
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