M4 Max or M4 Pro

[psmith]

If you had to choose between the following - what would you choose:

M4 Max with 14 core CPU and 32 core GPU with 36GB ram  w/- 410GB/s memory bandwidth
M4 Pro with 14 core CPU and 20 core GPU with 48GB ram w/- 273GB/s memory bandwidth

Both are roughly the same price.  (its another $750 to get the Max with 48GB...

My current 5yr old PC laptop has 64GB Ram - it appears to be rarely all used.  It rarely pops over 50% - even with 4 archicad models open, one large revit file a dozen Chrome windows (that seem to take up the most RAM)...

Will the faster bandwidth and faster GPU be more useful  / better than the RAM?

My daily work is probably 30% archicad use using teamwork files that are >1G... large apartment buildings, complex houses and urban projects... don't do much twinmotion rendering... spend lots of time cutting 2d and 3d sections... viewing different parts of the model to check and make quick amendments.

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon

[Karl Ottenstein]

@ALL_Emil what are your machine specs?

[EmilSS]

I'm sorry. I thought you could see it in my signature. I have a 16" M1 Pro 16gb for fun. This is my current workstation specs:

CPU: i9-14900K @ 3.2Ghz,
GPU: GeForce RTX 4070 super (12GB),
SSD: WD Black SN77 2TB.
RAM: 64GB (4200MT/s), Windows 11

Macbooks are the obvious choice for laptops, with no serious competition. I'm curious about workstations. Whether or not windows workstations like mine offer more value for money. Does Apple have a competitive chip now or are we still paying extra (for the better user experience)? The current workstation is in the same price range as the basic Mac Studio (I expect the Mac Studio M4 Max to have the same price).

Graphisofts system requirements is not elaborative enough for me: https://graphisoft.com/resources-and-support/system-requirements/ 

[Karl Ottenstein]

Sorry.  My fault.  I've never gotten used to this hidden signature thing requiring hovering and scrolling. 😞

An Apple M4 Max should outperform your Intel system, high end as it is.  There are all kinds of benchmarks available online to compare single core performance - which is the Archicad bottleneck for certain tasks though.  But given the high specs of your workstation, it would be interesting to see an actual test using Archicad if you happen to know anyone with a comparable M4 Max system.