Bruh. They tested it on blender 3.3🤦🤦🤦. It doesn’t use the M3 RT cores. Only 4.0 has proper metal RT support. Wish notebookcheck actually used the latest blender version rather than the outdated ones.

In blender 4.0 the M3 Max is between a 4070 and 4080 laptop. Closer to the 4080.