Is there enough 8GB memory? Comparison with the measured performance of Apple 16GB M3 MacBook Pro

CTOnews.com November 11 news, Bob Borchers, vice president of Apple's global product marketing, recently responded to the query of "golden memory", saying that MacBook Pro adopted a unified memory architecture and higher memory utilization, coupled with Apple's memory compression technology, the performance of 8GB memory in M3 MacBook Pro was similar to that of other systems.

Borchers's response obviously set off a wide discussion in the media and users. CTOnews.com netizens @ Jiulili mocked "8G memory + macOS > 16GB memory". Is 8GB memory MacBook Pro enough? YouTube channel Max Tech was tested in the latest video.

VJ Vadim Yuryev buys two M3 MacBook Pro models. The only difference between them is that one is equipped with 8GB memory and the other with 16GB memory.

According to the test results of Yuryev, it is found that the 16GB memory version has an overall improvement in performance under medium or heavy workloads.

Under scenarios such as Cinebench benchmark testing, merging photos in Photoshop applications, and exporting media in Final Cut and Adobe Lightroom Classic, there are significant performance differences between 8GB memory versions and 16GB memory versions.

Yuryev also repeatedly opens the browser, plays YouTube videos, writes spreadsheets, e-mails and other operations to simulate real-life usage scenarios. It was found that the performance gap between the 8GB and 16GB machines widened further, and Yuryev even reported that the 8GB version crashed during Blender rendering and Final Cut export.

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"Apple executives respond to the query of" Golden memory ": the 8GB of MacBook Pro is similar to the 16GB of other systems."