For a 2.5GHz Xeon 12-core x2: the Cinebench R23 and the GB 822 / 14454, these scores look right.
The GB4 score threw me for a moment, before I took it for what it is.
Amazing how new kit has outpaced this recently uber expensive elite Xeon.
Reminds me of what a bargain the M1 Studio is compared to previous offerings.
I hear legacy video like AfterEffects needs to stack frames in memory to run, so are RAM hungry up to a point, but even at 8K seems like 128G is a lot.
When you have to fill that RAM from a content project RAID5 spinner that runs at say 600MBs, you would wait 2 mins just to load half your system memory.
If you use large PCI4 2x striped SSDs you could get load time down 5 seconds, but then you have a time budget for getting project to/from shared storage for access by other project members. Soon you discover that project teamwork means that raw workstation power only means so much to productivity. Then you work backwards to how (somehow) feature movie projects were being cut using FCP and Avid on G4 / G5 back at turn of millennium, while FX houses were putting together phat render farms for hollywood features. You see credits listing thousands names involved in a 2 hr movie. And somehow before all this computer juju amazing spectacles were made from passing around strips of film.
Suddenly the power of a Mac Studio becomes unintuitive for ordinary use. "Look I'm browsing the web looking at text and pictures using 25x a Cray XMP!"
A CPU benchmark cannot tell us about how fast real work can get done. It only lets us compare generations of kit for basic computational chores.
A system that goes 2x more than another system allows a basic step of increased productivity. Changing how work actually gets done usually takes at least a 10x step.
After being through 40 years of steps, today, it seems we are at limits not of PC power, but limits of how people think about work and what one person's work can add as value to the culture. All signs are that as personal computing has advanced we have completely stalled on cultural advances and are maybe going backwards. I think Jobs would find himself bewildered at effects like the Anti-Vax movement, where computings promise fulfilled has left so many scared and resentful of its results, even as the technology provided the collective power to save their lives. Never mind NFTs.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" — H S Thompson.