Leaked benchmark suggests Apples M3 Pro CPU isnt nearly as scary fast as M3 Max

Date:
Sun, 05 Nov 2023 10:35:38 +0000

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Will the M3 Pro chip offer a disappointing generational uplift? A new leak hints this might be the case.

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Apples new M3 Pro is not that much faster than its predecessor, if an early (leaked) benchmark is to be believed (so apply skepticism appropriately as we head into this story).

This comes from Vadim Yuryev of YouTube channel Max Tech , who tweeted (as flagged by MacRumors ) to point out a spilled benchmark of the M3 Pro (the only version of the new SoC, which has 12-cores). Breaking: The first Apple
M3 Pro chip benchmarks have leaked! Its actually slower than the M2 Max based on margin of error. M3 Pro: 15,173M2 Max: 15,242Feeling sorry for M3 Pro buyersSo embarrassing! pic.twitter.com/mdCrUnphDX November 5, 2023 See more

The Geekbench 6 result shows the M3 Pro seemingly inside a new MacBook Pro 14-inch hitting scores of 3,035 for single-core and 15,173 for multi-core.

Compare that to the M2 Pro variant with 12-cores and we see that while the M3 Pro has a good lead of 14% for single-core, when it comes to multi-core, the new SoC is just 6% faster.

Of course, thats not a huge difference, and as a generational uplift, its about as small as you could get away with.

While both chips are 12-core processors as noted, the M3 Pro obviously benefits from a new architecture and more advanced manufacturing process
(3nm) but the M2 Pro benefits from having a split of 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, whereas the M3 Pro has 6 of each type.

With a pair of extra performance cores, it seems that the old M2 Pro narrows the gap quite considerably at least in certain scenarios. Analysis: Dont
leap to conclusions yet

There are key points to bear in mind here. Firstly, this is just a leak, so
as mentioned we should be skeptical around it. Secondly, if true, its still just a single benchmark, and not necessarily representative of other results well see, or indeed real-world performance for the M3 Pro.

Still, this is a disappointing early hint that the M3 Pro might underwhelm at least in some respects. Particularly as with the M3 Max , Apple seems to have pushed the chip to be seriously fast ( scary fast, even ), to be more or less equivalent to the M2 Ultra CPU in fact (add salt again, as these are also leaked benchmarks weve seen for the Max).

So, theres seemingly a pretty big gap between the M3 Pro and M3 Max, more so than with the previous generation of Apples silicon. And as you might
imagine, some folks have been quick to jump on this as a possible tactic to get buyers of Macs to fork out for M3 Max models, rather than M3 Pro, pushing up Apples profits as a result.

It is still early to be drawing any such conclusions, though, and we really need to get these new laptops in ourselves and do some thorough testing
before we can discern the true relationship, performance-wise, among Apples clutch of M3 chips . You might also like The 3 big ways the Apple M3 chips will change Mac gaming forever M3 MacBook Pro rushed out as Apples solution
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