Apple has been developing its own processors for a while now. The first Apple Silicon chip arrived in 2020 on MacBook Air. Already at the time, his performances hadshocked the sphere of new technologies. And for good reason, it did better than all the other MacBooks, including the Pros.
Since then, the Apple firm has developed two other chips in the same range, which have done even better than the competition. And in particular with its latest chipsM3 and A17 Pro, which bring a new way to improve graphics and make them smoother.
Apple also shared a thirty-minute presentation for its developers. The latter explains very clearly how these chips work, andhow they can be so effective. The video is also a bit long and technical, we have selected for you the most significant improvements that ordinary mortals can easily understand (the video was not published on the developer sites for nothing).
Dynamic main memory
Before the arrival of the new chips, it wasIt is common for memory to be wasted.This meant poorer performance and unnecessary losses. From now on, there are no more losses, the chip is in fact capable of allocating the memory necessary for each task, which improves its efficiency and displays more details on the screen.
Flexible on-chip memory
This type of memory is present directly on the chip, is even faster than RAM, but also smaller. She isused to store frequently used data, such as textures, or 3D models. From now on, this memory isdynamically adjusted more efficiently. This allows developers to spend less time optimizing its distribution.
High-performance aluminum pipeline and graphics pipelines
Pipeline is a generic term that refers toa series of steps performed in a specific order. In the case of the latest Apple Silicon chips, new high-performance Alu and graphics pipelines are used to improve the performance of complex graphics tasks. They are much more efficient than previous versions.
