Apple debuts all-new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips
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Apple has unveiled an all-new set of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max — the industry’s first 3-nanometer chips for a personal computer with a next-generation GPU architecture with performance improvements, a faster CPU and Neural Engine, and support for more unified memory
Debuted at the iPhone maker’s ‘Scary Fast’ special event on Monday, where Apple unveiled new MacBook Pro and iMac models, the new M3 family of chips features a next-generation GPU that “represents the biggest leap forward in graphics architecture ever for Apple silicon.”
The next-generation CPU in M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max features architectural improvements to the performance and efficiency cores, up to 30 percent faster than those in the M1 family. Each chip in the M3 family features a unified memory architecture, a hallmark of Apple silicon. This delivers high bandwidth, low latency, and high power efficiency.
M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max also have an enhanced Neural Engine to accelerate powerful machine learning (ML) models. The Neural Engine is up to 60 percent faster than in the M1 family of chips.
All three chips in the M3 family also have an advanced media engine, providing hardware acceleration to the most popular video codecs, including H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW. And for the first time, the media engine supports AV1 decoding, enabling power-efficient playback of streaming services to further extend battery life.
M3 features 25 billion transistors — 5 billion more than M2. It has a 10-core GPU featuring the next-generation architecture that is 65 percent faster than M1 for graphics performance.
M3 Pro consists of 37 billion transistors and an 18-core GPU, delivering fast performance when working on more graphics-intensive tasks. The GPU is up to 40 percent faster than M1 Pro. Support for unified memory goes up to 36GB, enabling larger projects to be worked on using the MacBook Pro when users are on the go. The 12-core CPU design has six performance cores and six efficiency cores, offering single-threaded performance that is up to 30 percent faster than M1 Pro.
M3 Max pushes the transistor count up to 92 billion and takes pro performance to the next level. The 40-core GPU is up to 50 percent faster than M1 Max, and offers support for up to 128GB of unified memory. The 16-core CPU features 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores, achieving performance that’s up to 80 percent faster than M1 Max.