MacBook Pro (M1 Max) vs PC (i9-1300k or Ryzen 7950x) with RTX 3080 or higher GPU

All the setups you mentioned will work well for alot of video edit and AE but the main thing that alot people leave out is the scope of the projects and the codec that is used in the projects. That can change how stuff performs on high end platforms. 

These type of camera codecs can

Pro Res Raw

Pro Res HQ

Red Raw

Black Magic raw

H265 10Bit 

H264 8Bit

Currently, the 7950x underperforms in Premiere Pro because even the latest driver for its integrated graphics does not work properly with hardware decoding.

And in no way does even the most powerful MacBook Pro perform as well as a properly configured i9-13900K CPU-powered desktop PC with the aforementioned GeForce GPU and with the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 770 enabled. However, some motherboards disable the integrated Intel graphics disabled by default whenever a discrete GPU is also installed, forcing all hardware decoding onto the discrete GPU that generally does not perform as well in decoding as the Intel iGPU does. This almost completely negates the advantage of Intel over AMD since the built-in hardware decoders within the two CPUs would effectively become disabled.

And this is not to mention that laptops, even MacBooks, provide a significantly poorer performance-to-price ratio (or value). As in that MacBook is exceptionally expensive but performs no better than an average desktop PC that costs half as much money.

Moved to hardware forum.

HEllo, you will find lots of benchmark results on puget bench, but I'm not sure if the Mac version is running in native or emulation mode. https://benchmarks.pugetsystems.com/benchmarks/?age=0&benchmark=PugetBench+for+Premiere+Pro&#results-table I've seen M1 MBPscore 1200 in their metric (enter M1 in the system spec column, then click twice on the results to sort by fastest), but maybe users of a M1 should have more relevant feedback, than a synthetic test.

Would the PC be a laptop? .