“Apple reached out to me last week immediately after the announcement of the new MacBook Pros, and as a result, for the past week I’ve had the opportunity to use a prerelease M1 Max-equipped 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro as my daily computer.”
A production renderer is a real workload, not a Geekbench run. Apple sent a prerelease laptop to someone who would test it honestly. That’s smart marketing, and the disclosure is right there in the post. Read the numbers with that in mind.