Benchmark results of Apple silicon 'M3 Pro' clearly indicate that the CPU's multi-core performance is the same as the previous generation M2 Max



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Apple's new product announcement event held on October 31, 2023, three next-generation Apple silicon chips, the M3 , M3 Pro , and M3 Max , were announced . This chip is the first Apple silicon for a Mac to be manufactured using a 3nm process, and although Apple has been touting a significant performance improvement, the M3 Pro's multi-core performance benchmark score is said to be the same as the previous generation M2 Max. Results have been reported.

First Apple M3 Pro Benchmarks Show Surprisingly Low Multi-Core Gains Over M2 Pro | Extremetech
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Vadim Yuryev, who runs the YouTube channel ' Max Tech ' that handles gadget-related information, posted that he found benchmark results for a Mac equipped with M3 Pro using Geekbench 6.2.1. According to this, the single-core performance score was 3035 and the multi-core performance score was 15,173. The score of the 16-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the previous generation M2 Max was 2857 for single-core performance and 15,242 for multi-core performance, so although single-core performance has improved, multi-core performance has decreased. Yuryev pointed out.



So, when I searched the Geekbench database for M3 Pro benchmark results, the latest 12 results at the time of article creation were as follows. The single-core performance score is 3000 to 3100, and the multi-core performance score is 14,000 to 15,000.



And the benchmark results of M2 Max, the top model of the previous generation, are like this. The single-core performance is 2600-2700, and the multi-core performance is around 14000.



Furthermore, the benchmark results of M3 Max, which is a higher model of M3 Pro, are below. The single-core performance score is almost the same as the M3 Pro, but the multi-core performance score is around 20,000, which is about 1.3 times that of the M3 Pro.



M2 Max's CPU is equipped with a total of 12 cores: 8 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores.



The M3 Pro's CPU also has a total of 12 cores, but it has a configuration of 6 high-performance cores + 6 high-efficiency cores. Extremetech, a hardware-related news site, says that although the performance per CPU core has increased due to the 3nm process, the number of high-performance cores has decreased when looking at the configuration, so the multi-core performance is almost the same as M2 Max. I am guessing that it is.



On the other hand, the M3 Max's CPU has a total of 16 cores, 12 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores. From this, Extremetech claims, ``Apple seems to have put a stumbling block on the M3 Pro by updating the core configuration in order to encourage upgrades to the more expensive M3 Max.''



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