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The M3 is Apple's first chip to be built on a 3 nm process;
includes a totally new Apple-designed GPU + a new video media engine, built from the ground up.
Supports mesh shaders, ray-tracing, and AV1 video decoder.
The GPU part shares a lot of common with the Apple A17 Pro chips.
The CPU part is similar to the M1 and M2 chips, without much modifications, but clocked faster.
A17 Pro - 6 cores (2P+4e); 5-6 GPU cores; mem.bandwidth = 51.2 GB/sec; 19 billion transistors
M3 - 8 cores (4P+4e); 8-10 GPU cores; mem.bandwidth = 102.4 GB/sec; 25 billion transistors
M3 Pro - 12 cores (6P+6e); 14-18 GPU cores; mem.bandwidth = 153.6 GB/sec; 37 billion transistors
M3 Max - 16 cores (12P+4e); 30-40 GPU cores; mem.bandwidth = 409.6 GB/sec; 92 billion transistors
2 result(s) recorded for this family.
Flagship: Apple M3 Max
ST score/GHz: 1,527 · MT score/Watt: 911
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2023 |
| Arch Generation | 17 |
| Architecture / Codename | |
| Cores / Threads | 4P+4e (4 Performance Cores + 4 efficiency cores) |
| Technology Node | 3 nm (TSMC N3B) |
| Die Size | 141 mm^2 (estimated) |
| Transistors | 25 billion |
| Frequency | 4050 MHz |
| Instructions | 192 KB + 128 KB /P-core (?) |
| TDP | ~20 Watts |
| Cache L2 | 12 MB /P-cluster (?) |
| Memory Type | LPDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 102.4 GB/s; (up to 819.2 GB/s for M2 Ultra) |
| Memory Size Max | 24 GB (up to 192 GB for M2 Ultra) |