Panther Lake is INSANE vs Apple M5 - I was WRONG!

Panther Lake versus Apple M5 MacBook

Pro. Can Intel finally take [music] back

the crown? Well, this is a very

compelling chip that's in this Asus

laptop. This is the new Expert Book

Ultra, and I think it's the most

compelling Windows laptop to come out

this year. It's not sponsored by Asus,

so I can say whatever I want. So, in

this video, we're going to compare

everything between these two laptops to

see which one is the winner in terms of

design, performance, speakers, [music]

webcams, thermal throttling, and battery

life. Because yes, we are running a

battery life test. Both of these are

charged up to 100%. So, this is going to

be interesting. Now, I know what you

guys are going to say. This is the base

M5 chip versus Intel's almost

top-of-the-line Panther Lake chip. This

is a 358H, [music] which has essentially

the same core count, same GPU, same

everything except slightly lower clock

speeds than the top-of-the-line X9

[music] 388H. But all we have right now

is the base M5 chip. And of course, when

the M5 Pro comes out, we're going to

compare it to that. But let's get into

the design. This is an absolutely

beautiful laptop. I love that it has a

14-in display. It's super compact with

thin bezels, and it is insanely thin and

light. It's only 0.4 43 in thick versus

0.61 on the M5 MacBook Pro. It's also

only 2.2 lb versus 3.4 on the MacBook

Pro. I also love its design with the

nano ceramic coating which is scratch

resistant and smudge resistant. I love

the chamfer design which they literally

had to drop these sections to fit the

ports in because it is that [music]

slim. And from a top-down view, I mean,

this thing looks beautiful. You have the

same coating and no stickers. ASA, thank

you. And this trackpad is brand new for

the Expert Book Ultra. This is a glass

haptic trackpad and it feels absolutely

amazing compared to the MacBook Pro.

Basically the same. They have a

fingerprint sensor right here just like

the MacBook has. And they did show us

the full internal redesign from the

ground up at CES. They've jam-packed

everything in there, including six

speakers with dual woofers. So, let's go

ahead and just test the speakers.

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where we [music] started. Wow, that was

actually really, really impressive. It

looks like the Expert Book is louder

than the MacBook. And I hear the bass.

That's very impressive because usually

Windows laptops, their speakers sound

like trash. This sounds very, very good.

The only thing is I think the mids are

brought up a little bit too high where

all the sounds kind of muffled together

a bit where on the MacBook Pro they're

more clear and you can hear those

differences between the frequencies. And

now let's test out the camera on the

expert book Ultra. It looks not too bad.

It does look a little bit contrasty. You

guys let me know how the microphone

sounds down below. And now we have the

base M5 MacBook Pros webcam. This is

also a 1080p. This is their center

stage. And to me, this looks a lot more

overall balanced. Let me know about the

microphones down below. Now, one thing

you guys might notice on the top cam is

that the display on the expert book

looks a little bit washed out [music]

compared to the MacBook that looks nice

with deep blacks. The reason is this

comes with the Corning Gorilla matte

finish, which is not a screen protector

that they add on top. The glass is

actually etched just like Apple does

with their nano texture. But

unfortunately, one of the side effects

is that you see a little bit more of

that gray wash out effect, especially

with our ceiling tiles. And that's a

little bit unfortunate because this is

the best display that I've ever seen on

any laptop. This is a 3K [music]

tandem OLED. Taking a look here, this is

a YouTube video with HDR, 1400 nits.

It's still very, very bright, almost as

bright as 1600 on the MacBook Pro. And

now this is where you start to see the

advantages of the tandem OLED. I mean,

look how bright it is. Look how nice

those colors pop. Look at that honey. It

just pops out. And one thing you'll

notice on the MacBook is that subtle

halo effect [music] you can see around

very bright whites. And of course, the

expert book also goes up to 120 Hz

dynamic refresh rate just like on the

MacBook Pro. So, I can't wait till we

get this display on the MacBook cuz it

it is amazing. And finally, I want to

talk about the port selection because

it's pretty dang good on the Expert

Book. You have two Thunderbolt 4

Type-C's, one on each side. You also

have two type A USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, one

on each side. You also have a headphone

jack, and you have HDMI 2.1, so it's

fully loaded with great ports. While the

MacBook has three of those Thunderbolt 4

ports, so it has an additional one. It

also has MacSafe 3 for charging. It also

has an SD card slot on the side, but the

HDMI is not as good. And jumping right

into Geekbench 6, you can see the chip

and everything right here. It's the Core

Ultra X73588.

It's got 32 gigs of RAM compared to 16

[music] on the M5. And it comes with a 1

TBTE SSD compared to 512 on the M5. Holy

smokes, guys. Look at that. the Panther

Lake 13,980

compared to 6,797

on the M5. Guys, we made a huge deal

about the M5's SSDs being a lot faster

than the previous base M4. But look at

this thing. Over flipping twice as fast.

And as for the right speed, we have

8,000 on this laptop. That's 35% faster.

Dang, ASUS, great job on these SSDs. But

let's go ahead and start with the CPU

test. While this is running, I do want

to mention I set all of the power and

battery modes to the highest

performance. So, we're seeing the best

performance on battery. There you go. We

have our scores. And dang, Apple still

kills it in single core. 53%

faster than this Panther Lake chip. And

in terms of the multicore, yes, the M5

is still faster. is about 16% faster

than what we have with this Panda Lake

358H.

Now, yes, this score is tested on

battery. I did test it earlier plugged

in. It was about 16,500

when you have it charging, so it does

pull out a little bit more power. Now,

of course, we also want to test the web

browsing. This is speedometer 3.1, which

basically shows you how snappy it is

when you're browsing the web and using

all your web- based apps. And would you

look at that? The MacBook Pro is almost

two times faster in terms of web

browsing. And now let's get into our

first test. This is Web Design within

Figma. And this is a project provided to

us by 500 Designs, one of the best

design and marketing agencies in the US.

And with this test, we basically just go

down and we're going to export 12 of

these layers right here. There you go. A

minute and 26 seconds. That's pretty

quick. And oh my goodness, are you

serious? A minute and 27 seconds on the

M5. Panther Lake has its first win by

just 1 second. And now let's hop over to

graphics with the brand new Intel Arc

B390 GPU compared to Apple's 10 core M5.

Here we go. We've got the scores and it

looks like the M5 is still [music]

faster, 53% faster. But of course, a lot

of people prefer to do gaming benchmarks

like this 3D MarkX Steel Nomad Light and

dang Panther Lake. Not bad at all. The

M5 scored 39.9

FPS compared to 38.4.

That is incredibly good in terms of the

gaming performance, especially once

again, it's x86. You can actually use

all of it and to be within an APU on

here and not having to get Nvidia

graphics anymore. That is super super

impressive. And now I also want to test

Solar Bay Extreme. This is basically a

test of the ray tracing capabilities

with graphics all mixed together. So

let's definitely run that. And there you

go. The M5 is a little bit faster here.

about 17% higher FPS than the Panther

Lake Super Good GPU. But now, let's take

the graphics to the next level with

video rendering in Blender. This is the

new 5.0.1 version. And as you can see

here on the Panda Lake, we have it set

to 1 API GPU rendering with that B390

GPU. So, it has full metal ray tracing,

acceleration, everything built in. And

of course, we have the same thing, metal

RT on the M5. So, we're doing GPU only

on these tests, starting with, of

course, the classic BMW. There you go.

BMW is now rendered. It took 12.7

seconds on the M5 and basically 22

seconds on the Panther Lake. So, it

looks like the M5 is about 10 seconds

faster. That is quite a bit quicker. And

now, let's kick it up a notch. This is

the party tug splash screen. Once again,

cycles GPU on both of these. No way,

guys. Panther Lake 1. 55 seconds on the

Panther Lake, 58 seconds on the M5. Wow,

that is really, really flipping quick

for an APU. Intel, you are doing work.

All right, that's it. It is time for

business, guys. This is the Swamp

Project by a thirdparty developer. I

think his name is Lasha 3D. Anyway, you

can run this yourself. I'll leave the

link down below, but he made this

incredible project. All right, that's

finally done. Took 11 minutes and 36

seconds on the M5 and 15 minutes and 24

seconds on the Panther Lake chip. So,

when it comes to something massive like

this, the M5 gets way ahead. Maybe

that's because of unified memory

compared to 32 gigs, which is no longer

unified like the previous Lunar Lake

was. And now, let's move on to photo

editing. This is Lightroom Classic.

We're going to be exporting 50 42

megapixel RAW photos. I want to show you

guys quickly that I have the performance

preferences open. And you can see your

system automatically supports full

acceleration. Yes. So that's using the

GPU. And bam, the MacBook Pro is done.

36 seconds. And the Panther Lake just

got to basically 50%. And there you go.

Panther Lake just finished a minute and

13 seconds. Essentially over twice as

long on the Panther Lake 358H

compared to the M5. And now finally,

let's jump into Cinebench. This is going

to be the real CPU rendering test that a

lot of people are excited for. I'm just

going to do a single run of the

multi-core test and then I'll do the

10-minute run with the 2026 version. We

can see that we're running at 2.4 GHz

clock speed on Panther Lake compared to

look at that pec cores are at 4 GHz. By

the way, the single fan on the M5

MacBook Pro is fully maxed out. This

expert book is very, very quiet right

now. And dang, Panther Lake is not quite

fast enough. We have,005 points on the

M5, 853

on this Panther Lake chip. It could be

because it is unplugged. Yep, that is

exactly why it's on battery and it can't

keep up the power because I'm looking at

the 2024 10-minute stress test 11:22

that I ran earlier. So, unfortunately,

you got to plug this in to actually beat

the M5 MacBook Pro. Wow, it would have

won if you plugged it in. But, of

course, since our main objective is

[music] the battery life test, we have

to run it in this video. Everything on

battery like you should with laptops

because they're meant to go places and

not just be connected and tethered to a

cable all the time. All right, here we

have Cinebench 2026. I've set it to a

10-minute throttling test. Let's go

ahead and get started and we'll come

back in a few minutes to check out the

temps. All right, guys. It's been a full

10 minutes. The MacBook Pro decided to

do an additional run compared to the

Panther Lake, which is almost done. But

let's look at these temps, guys. All

right, Panther Lake. First, we have a

hot spot right here at the top center,

41° C. Let's move over to the MacBook.

Here we can see that super hot spot

right there where the display is out.

That's actually how it's expelling the

air. But as for the actual chassis temp,

dang, 43° C. So about 1 12° C hotter on

the base M5 MacBook Pro. And the Panther

Lake just finished 3,440

points. [music]

The M5 is still going with that

additional run, which will eat a little

bit into the battery. All right, there

you go. The MacBook Pro is now done. It

scored 4,62

compared to 3,440.

That makes it 21% faster in this stress

test. Now, I do want to mention this was

on battery, which yes, it loses

performance. Well, I ran it earlier, the

10 minute, and it got 45,54.

So definitely faster about what is that

like 500 600 points higher. However, the

M5 MacBook Pro still beats it even when

this laptop is plugged into power. So

there you guys go with all of that

testing and everything done. We've got

to finish off with the battery life

before I get into my own personal

thoughts and conclusions both on Panther

Lake and how good it is and this Expert

Book Ultra as well. Let's look at the

MacBook Pro first. 40% battery life on

the MacBook Pro. It's been about 2 and

1/2 hours since I unplugged them and

started doing all the heavy testing. By

the way, I want to mention that I had

both of these maxed out to 100%

brightness. They both have standard 600

nits. And as for the expert book Ultra

Panther Lake, 38% battery life, barely

lower than [clears throat]

40 on the M5 MacBook Pro. That is

extremely impressive. Intel, good job.

Asus, good job. Maxed out brightness.

That is crazy good. I have not seen a

Windows laptop perform this well in

terms of battery life. Of course,

there's a couple of caveats. It had to

lower down the performance on battery,

so that is definitely a minus. The

MacBook Pro was faster in many of these

tests. Of course, this is not the

fastest Panther Lake chip. There's also

that X9 388H, but unfortunately, [music]

it I guess doesn't come in this laptop,

at least not yet. But as far as Panther

Lake in my thoughts, extremely efficient

graphics is great. Not as fast as M5,

but you get x86 games that you could

actually play at playable frame rates.

Super exciting. This laptop is

absolutely a banger. I love the display.

Tandem OLED. Absolutely beautiful. The

design, the thickness, 2.2 lb. I mean,

this is an engineering marvel over on

the Windows side. Asus, you guys

absolutely killed it. I love this

laptop. I think it is the best Panther

Lake laptop out there. Let me know what

you guys think on this comparison and

all these results and everything down in

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