The M2 Pro was a barely crippled M2 Max. The M3 Pro is a properly crippled M3 Max. It's called market segmentation, and Apple is very good at it, but in the e

The M2 Pro was a barely crippled M2 Max. The M3 Pro is a properly crippled M3 Max. It's called market segmentation, and Apple is very good at it, but in the early days of M1 (and M2, which is just a warmed-over M1) they didn't have the engineering time to make 4 tiers (Base, Pro, Max, Ultra) and had to do a half-assed job of chopping off part of the Max to make the Pro. With M3, the Pro is its own design, with carefully designed limitations to force you to the Max.