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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.

[–] Gaylien28@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I imagine their development pipeline for the M* chips is very long. M4 is already being masked and M5 is being finalized with M6 development progressing and perhaps the M3 design team being ported to begin work on M7. Still very impressive but M3 has likely been prototyped since M1 was announced. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they go big on a design and iterate down to what’s feasible with current manufacturing and yields.

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

One major difference between apple and intel is that apple generally has a much shorter time between spec and mass production. If you make assumptions based on knowing that Intel has six consecutive server chips in the pipeline, you might not be quite correct applying that to apple.

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