At its \"Crazy Fast\" event on October 31, 2023, Apple announced a new line of M3 chips, including the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, all three of which offer significant improvements in performance and functionality.
Apple claims that the entry-level M3 chip has an 8-core CPU that is 35% faster than the M1 and 20% faster than the M2. Its 10-core GPU is 65 percent faster than the M1 and about 20 percent faster than the M2. New data in the Geekbench database confirms Apple's claims. For example, a Mac with an Apple M3 processor shows a single-core performance score of 3030 and a multi-core performance score of 11694. The data show that the M3's performance indicators are significantly higher than its predecessor.
Not only that, the M3 series chips also add a powerful neural network engine to accelerate machine learning models, improving performance by up to 60%. The M3 Max is even more proud of its 16-core CPU and up to 40-core GPU, which can be widely used in the development of artificial intelligence software.
Apple's M3 chip is 24% better than the M2 chip.
The M3 chip is 15% faster than the M2 and 30% faster than the M1, providing a performance improvement of up to 65% at peak power consumption. The M3's graphics processor is 35% better than the M2, and its power consumption is roughly the same as that of the M2. The M3 chip's neural network engine is 70% faster than the M2, and its memory bandwidth is 1.5 times that of the M2.