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Apple M3 SoC analyzed: Increased performance and improved efficiency (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] Psittacula2@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

8-Core CPU:

  • Up to 35% faster than M1
  • Up to 20% faster than M2
  1. 4-Cores (Performance) Top = 4.056 GHz (or ~3.6 GHz when all cores are loaded)
  2. 4-Cores (Efficiency) Top = 2.748 GHz

10-Core GPU:

  • Up to 60% faster than M1
  • Up to 20% faster than M2
  1. Dynamic caching, where cache and memory are allocated dynamically based on the actual requirements of applications.
  2. Hardware-based ray tracing, mesh shading and AV1 decoding.
  3. However, only two displays can be used at a time.

The other interesting summary figure is more-or-less maintaining power efficiency as before on lower power with comparable performance to other chips at higher power usage.

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Either way it is spun (pun intended), it's very impressive performance boost and fast cadence of release by Apple. notebook.check is a handy website, thanks for posting OP.

[–] CandyFromABaby91@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

20% jump in one generation is massive. If they continue this the M series chips will be (even more) crazy fast in no time.

[–] Put_It_All_On_Blck@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Context of that generational leap makes it far less impressive, and its clear that Apple wont be able to pull this off again in the next 2 years unless there are major changes.

Apple used to have M silicon trail A silicon architecture by a generation, this is the first year Apple has put them on the same level, its essentially 2 generations of architecture leap this year.

M2 was on N5P, M3 is on N3B, that node difference alone can account for half of the uplift.

I'd actually argue that M3 is underwhelming for what went into it, it also wasnt 'one year', but 16 months.

[–] sm00thArsenal@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I am wary of a stat that says “up to” rather than “on average”

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