> I'd say gains from M2 Max to M3 Max are pretty reasonable. How are they reasonable to you? As I see it, they just added 50% more (performance) cores to the M

> I'd say gains from M2 Max to M3 Max are pretty reasonable. How are they reasonable to you? As I see it, they just added 50% more (performance) cores to the M3 Max compared to the M2 Max (12 versus 8, respectively) and achieved 50% higher multi-core performance: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/3434546?baseline=3434549 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/3434546?baselin.... No rocket science here. If anything, we should be asking “why only +50% for multi-core performance when single core performance increased by ~20%?”.