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For the M3 and M3 Pro, they kept the same number of cores or in the case of the Pro actually decreased them. On the other hand, the M3 Max gained 4 Performance
by stetrain 3y ago
For the M3 and M3 Pro, they kept the same number of cores or in the case of the Pro actually decreased them.
On the other hand, the M3 Max gained 4 Performance cores for a total of 16 cores (12P 4E) vs the M2 Max's 12 cores (8P 4E).
The M3 Max beats the M2 Ultra (2x M2 Max dies) in single and multicore benchmarks.
Seems like Apple is leaning towards efficiency on their lower end chips, but also using the extra transistor density to push performance on M3 Max, increasing the gap between the low and high end chips.
That M3 Max is presumably going to be turned into an M3 Ultra sometime next year with 32 cores, which would roughly double the M2 Ultra multicore performance.
- jltsiren 3y agoThe M3 Max beats the M2 Ultra in single-task benchmarks, that measure how well various kinds of software can take advantage of the hardware. Such benchmarks don't scale well with the number of CPU cores, because many tasks involve sequential bottlenecks. With higher-end hardware, you should get more meaningful results by running a few copies of the benchmark software in parallel and reporting the sum of multicore scores as the true multicore score. That would reflect the common use case of running several independent tasks in parallel.