Apple launched the M3 series of chips, M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, using a 3-nanometer process and adding dynamic buffering and rendering technology to bring more realistic ray tracing performance. Compared with the M1 series, not only the chip It is larger and its performance has been greatly improved. The performance of M3 Max has been improved by 80%.
M3 series chips adopt new GPU architecture
The M3 series chips also include M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. They are manufactured using 3 nanometer process technology. The chips are larger than the previous generation M2 series. They also use a design that shares CPU and GPU memory, with up to 128GB of memory. Among them, the GPU adopts a new architecture design and adds a dynamic caching function, which will dynamically adjust the memory required by the GPU according to different tasks, so that each task can use the exact memory requirements to improve GPU usage. efficiency, there is more room to use GUP performance in software and games that require more performance.
In addition, it also brings new rendering functions and ray tracing. This is the first time that M series chips have hardware-accelerated ray tracing functions applied to Mac. Ray tracing models the properties of light when it interacts with the scene, allowing apps to create extremely realistic and physically accurate images. Combined with the new graphics processing architecture, the processing speed of professional apps can be up to 2.5 times that of M1 series chips. , game developers can use ray tracing to achieve more precise shadows and reflections to create deeply immersive environments.
In addition, the new GPU brings hardware-accelerated mesh shading to Mac, bringing more powerful capabilities and efficiency to geometry processing, and enabling more dazzling and detailed scenes in games and a large number of graphics processing apps.
In addition, the new GPU brings hardware-accelerated mesh shading to Mac, bringing more powerful capabilities and efficiency to geometry processing, and enabling more dazzling and detailed scenes in games and a large number of graphics processing apps.
M3 series chips upgrade CPU performance
The M3 series has also made architectural improvements for CPU performance and energy-saving cores. The performance cores will be up to 30% faster than the cores on M1 series chips; the energy-saving cores will be up to 50% faster than M1, so everyday tasks are faster than ever before while enabling the system to maximize battery life. In other words, in the M3 series, half the power consumption can be used to bring the same multi-threading performance as the M1, while the performance under peak power consumption can be increased by 35%.
M3 chip performance increased by 65%
The M3 chip is composed of 25 billion transistors, 5 billion more than M2. Using a 10-core GPU with a new generation architecture, the graphics processing performance is up to 65% faster than the M1 chip. Games like Myst feature extremely realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections. The M3 chip is equipped with an 8-core CPU, including 4 performance cores and 4 energy-saving cores, making the CPU performance up to 35% faster than the M1 chip. In addition, it supports up to 24GB of unified memory.
M3 Pro chip performance increased by 40%
The M3 Pro chip is composed of 37 billion transistors and an 18-core GPU, providing fast performance for more intensive graphics processing tasks. The GPU is up to 40% faster than the M1 Pro, and it supports unified memory up to 36GB, allowing users to handle larger projects on MacBook Pro when on the go. The 12-core CPU design is equipped with 6 performance cores and 6 energy-saving cores, and the performance of a single thread can be improved by up to 30% compared to the M1 Pro chip. The new MacBook Pro is equipped with an M3 Pro chip, making stitching and processing large panoramic photos in Adobe Photoshop faster than ever.
M3 Max chip performance increased by 80%
The M3 Max chip is composed of up to 92 billion transistors, bringing professional performance to a new level. The 40-core GPU is up to 50% faster than the M1 Max chip and supports up to 128GB of unified memory, allowing AI developers to process larger Transformer models with billions of parameter data. The 16-core CPU is equipped with 12 performance cores and 4 energy-saving cores, bringing amazing performance, up to 80% higher than the M1 Max chip. Through two ProRes engines, the M3 Max chip can quickly and smoothly handle video post-production work for the highest resolution content, whether using DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. The M3 Max chip is built for professionals, giving MacBook Pro the highest performance and industry-leading battery life among professional-grade notebooks.
In summary, the features of M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips are the use of 3-nanometer process technology and a new GPU architecture, which bring functions such as dynamic cache, grid shading, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and improve the CPU The architecture brings more powerful performance, a faster neural network engine, and provides up to 128GB of CPU and GPU fast memory.
