Apple has just announced the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, its latest Apple chips. The latest Apple chips were unveiled at the ‘Scary Fast’ Apple event where it also introduced the latest MacBook Pro and iMac powered by the latest silicone.
The latest-generation chipsets are built on the 3nm process and each introduces a next-generation GPU that introduces ray tracing and more.
M3 Series Chips
The company’s latest M series chips feature Dynamic Caching on the new GPU which allocates the use of local memory in hardware in real time. This is able to transfer the exact amount of memory needed for each task. The new GPU also has hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading.
The GPU is able to offer 65% more performance than the M1 at its peak.
Meanwhile, as far as CPU goes, the next-generation Apple silicon is said to offer up to 30% improvement over the M1 series. The efficiency cores on board the latest Apple chips are 50% faster than the first-generation chipset. Additionally, the next-generation chips are said to deliver up to 60% better Neural Engine performance than the M1 chips.
The latest-generation chipsets also offer up to 128GB of memory which was first introduced in the M2 Ultra. Moreover, the latest Apple silicone family also supports video codecs like H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW, and for the first time, AV1 decoding.
The chipsets are also said to offer up to 22 hours of battery life.
Here are the main differences of the chipsets:
- M3 – a 10-core GPU, an 8-core CPU (four performance cores and four efficiency cores), and up to 24GB of unified memory.
- M3 Pro – an 18-core GPU, a 12-core GPU (six performance cores and six efficiency cores), and up to 36GB of unified Memory
- M3 Max – a 40-core GPU, a 16-core CPU (12 performance cores and four efficiency cores), and up to 128GB of unified memory
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