Apple took advantage of Halloween to present its new generation of chips for Mac,the M3s. During the presentation conference, the Cupertino company insisted at length on the performance of this new generation of processors, the first to have 3 Nm engraving technology developed by TSMC.
But according to the latest information and tests released, the M3 chips might not be as revolutionary as Apple wants them to be. Indeed, independent tests tend to demonstrate that the M3 Pro chip is actually slightly more powerful than the M2 Pro chip. The results would be so close thatthe hierarchy switches from one test to another.
In a recent video (above), the co-host of the YouTube channel Max Tech speaks on this subject. He claims to base his analysis on the results of a Geekbench 6. He thus announcesa single-core score of 3035 for the M3 Pro chip. That's 14% faster than the M2 Pro chip, a nice improvement from one year to the next, but nothing extraordinary.
It is with regard to the multi-core score that things get complicated for the Cupertino company. In the 12-core M3 Pro version,the machine score is 15 173. This is only 6% more than the M2 Pro chip released last year.
A voluntary choice by Apple ?
Apple has not given an official response regarding this matter, but the Cupertino company is well aware of the lack of power of this new generation of chips. The latter can even be explained very simply. Of the 12 cores present in the M2 Pro chip, 8 were dedicated to high performance, the other 4 focus on efficiency.
But this balance of power has been shaken up with the M3 Pro chip. Apple has only chosen to keep 6 cores for high performance and 6 for efficiency. A choice which necessarily reduces the power of the processor. In addition to these limits on CPU cores, Apple has introduced one less core in the GPU of the new M3 Pro chip.
A reduction in performance for this intermediate model which should do the business of the M3 Max chip. According to the results of a GeekBench, it would be 45% faster than the M2 Max chip.
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