M5 Max vs Razer Blade 16 - How is THIS Possible?!

Can Apple's brand new M5 Max MacBook Pro

take down the brand new 2026 Razer Blade

16 with a 5090 GPU and top-of-the-line

Panther Lake 386H

chip? Well, in this video, we're going

to find out by testing everything,

including the design, speakers, webcams,

performance, SSD, real games, AI

workflow, thermals, everything to find

out which one is the king of 2026. Now,

last week I made a video comparing the

M5 Max to an $11,000

Workstation Dell 18 Plus Pro Max, and

that was kind of unfair because that's

meant for workstation tasks with ISV

certified applications. So, this is a

lot more fair. This is only $100 more

expensive than this MacBook Pro, and

it's actually thinner than the MacBook

Pro, pretty much the same weight, and

with an awesome aluminum design. I mean,

this thing is beautiful. Not only that,

it has a beautiful OLED display, 240

hertz, and when you're watching it at

night, everything looks beautiful. And

it does have upgraded speakers this

year. So, let's test that out.

Holy smokes, guys, that was a slaughter.

The speakers on this thing are

atrocious. The one thing here though is

I'm seeing a lot of reflection on the

Razer's display potentially cuz it's uh

I guess it's not a touch screen, but

dang, a lot more reflections. And holy

moly, this is a terrible webcam. Look at

all this weird color. What the flip? Are

you serious? All right, that's more like

it on the 16-inch MacBook Pro. You can

see I'm doing these weird moves. It's

not changing like the Razer did. Let me

know about the mic down below. And now,

let's get into performance. Starting off

with the SSD speed. They both have two

TBTE SSDs, so it's a good match. All

right, we got our scores. Looks like

13,000 on the Mac. about 86% faster than

we have on the Razer and Wright is 2.6

times faster. And another benefit of

Panther Lake is that you get a

Thunderbolt 5 port on this year's Razer

Blade 16 model. And by the way, the port

selection is a lot better than on the

MacBook, which at least does have three

Thunderbolt 5 ports, which is cool. And

now let's get into CPU performance with

Geekbench 6. You can see here we have

the 18 core M5 Max. We have 48 gigs of

RAM which comes with this system. Over

here on the Razer Blade 16, this one

comes with 32 gigs, but it is more

expensive, 4500 compared to 4,400. If

you want to upgrade to 64, this is now

5,000. So, I chose to keep it as close

as possible in terms of price. This also

has the almost best Panther Lake, the

386H. And as expected, the M5 Max is a

lot faster, over 4,000 single core.

That's 48% faster than this high-end

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It definitely lost some performance. So,

single core stayed the same, but we went

from 17,400 to 14,500 multi-core, which

then makes the M5 Max over twice as

fast. So, we definitely got to plug them

back in. Now, the reason you want higher

single core performance is because it

impacts basically everything you do with

your basic common apps, web- based apps,

and web browsing. So, let's run

speedometer 3.1. Wow, over 40 on the

Panther Lake. That's one of the highest

scores I've seen. Still, the M5 Max is

43% more snappy for web browsing. And

now, let's test web design with Figma.

This is a project provided to us by 500

Designs, one of the best design and

marketing agencies in the US. So, let's

export 12 of these highquality layers.

All right, guys. This is weird. I'm

running this test, which is like single

core, but the fans are blowing crazy

loud. What is this? The fans didn't even

turn on on the MacBook Pro. Oh, dang,

guys. That was close. A minute and 20

seconds on the Panther Lake. Basically

the same performance between these two.

Intel, bravo. I can't believe you're

keeping up. And now, let's test the

tokens per second prefill and output

speed in O Lama, which just got updated

to support Apple's MLX, specifically in

the Quinn 3.5 model. So, I have it set

on both of these. And dang guys, that is

insane. On the M5 Max, we have a prefill

speed of 76 tokens per second compared

to 271.

That's 3.5

times faster prefill. And then for the

output performance, 58.82 tokens per

second on the M5 Max versus 99.21.

69% faster. Nice. Now, I typed in what

is the fastest laptop in the world.

Let's try that. All right, it's done.

And we did get different results,

different summaries and verdicts, but we

got 517

tokens per second prefill on the 5090

compared to 139 on the M5 Max. So, yes,

the 5090 is the king of AI. And now,

let's get into graphics performance. I

have 3D MarkX Steel Nomad Light

Unlimited test. And dang guys, 136.8 on

the M5 Max, 185.4

on that 5090. That makes it 36% faster

than the 40 core M5 Max in terms of

general gaming performance. And now I

want to test the solar bay extreme ray

tracing. And now there's not as big of a

difference. The 5090 laptop is now only

32% faster. I mean, that's still a

massive difference. And speaking of

gaming and graphics performance, I have

Steam open right here. And the best part

about this laptop is that you have

Windows x86, which means you can play

basically any game ever. Like, for

example, one of my favorites, Final

Fantasy 10 Remaster I got right here.

I've got Battlefield 6 that I've been

playing a while. Call of Duty, which I

just got. These games you cannot play on

the Mac. Just look at how small this

list is of the games that I personally

have bought over the years. Of course,

there's Crimson Desert, which just came

out. So, let's test it out. I've got it

open. You can hear the fan is starting

to kick up. I have it full screen. I set

the resolution to 2560 x600 cuz that's

the maximum over here on this laptop. To

keep it fair, this actually goes up to

3.5K resolution on this display. I

turned off the upscaling. I don't want

to mess with that right now. Unlimited

frame rate. VSYNC is off. As for the

graphics settings, it's set to custom

ultra ultra ultra on. Ultra ultra off.

Everything else ultra. All right, guys.

Here we are. We just started. We're

looking at 42 43 FPS right now. I'm

going to go down to the high preset. All

right. on a high preset. Looks like

we're getting about 62 63 FPS. Now,

let's try out Metal FX with ultra

performance upscale resolution setting

and frame generation on. WA right away

120 FPS. Let's do quality. There you go.

13 115.

So, set to the quality setting, which

I'd say looks a lot better than ultra