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

[ryejuan]

Thanks for the info, btw did you get a MBP or a mac mini? am thinking of using MacBook Air if instances I need to work when I am travelling.

[Pavel_N]

Hi, does anyone here have a Mac Mini M4 Pro 16gpu version? I would like to ask for your experiences with fan noise during high load, especially with Twinmotion, Archicad point clouds.. I know that people don't complain about MacBooks and Studios, but I found very negative experiences on forums with noise of the M4 Pro Mini. Thank you!