I just watched an Apple MacBook Pro get mauled by a Razer Blade 16

Nvidia RTX vs M3 Max; two laptops on a wooden table
(Image credit: Future)

Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Isabel Ge Mahe, Phil Schiller, Jony Ive, Ted Lasso, your MacBook Pro took a hell of a beating! Okay, I'm going a little far, and my apologies to any Bjørge Lillelien fans, but I just watched a Razer Blade 16 with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 blitz a new Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max in a timed shootout to render a Stable Diffusion image.

The Razer Blade 16 managed the task, to create a detailed viking illustration, in 9.8 seconds, the MacBook Pro M3 Max did it in 1 minute 14 seconds. I've always overlooked PC laptops in favour of Apple's sleek devices when it comes to digital art, largely because they feel game focused and not for creatives, but my eyes have been opened. 

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Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.

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