# M4 pro vs m4 max

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/m4-pro-vs-m4-max/37880 "2025-05-09T16:46:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/m4-pro-vs-m4-max/37880/2 "2025-05-10T14:13:26Z")

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I looked this up while back, the answer is from the STAFF.

> [@Hardware question MacBook M3](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/hardware-question-macbook-m3/29086):
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> Hi there, I’m a big fan and enjoy working on my iPad M1. But I want to switch to a new MacBook and want to know what configuration would give te best performance. I’m thinking about 3 MacBook Pro configurations: M3 pro 11 CPU 14 GPU 36 GB memory M3 Max 14 CPU 30 CPU 36 GB memory And how would these compare to a M3 8CPU 10 GPU 8GB memory - and save some money. What has the most influence on the performance? Is it the memory, the CPU and does the GPU affect the persormace? I do use vi…

Here it says 32gig of ram for complex projects.

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