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It might be the case that the yield on the chips is low, so they decided to use “defective” chips in the M3 Pro, and the non-defective in the M3 Max.
by Ar-Curunir 3y ago
It might be the case that the yield on the chips is low, so they decided to use “defective” chips in the M3 Pro, and the non-defective in the M3 Max.
- dagmx 3y agoIn all M generations, the max and pro are effectively different layouts so can’t be put down to binning. Each generation did offer binned versions of the Pro and Max with fewer cores though.
- brandall10 3y agoThese aren't binned chips... the use of efficiency cores does reduce transistor count considerably which could improve yields. That said, while the transistor count of the M2 Pro -> M3 Pro did decrease, it went up quite a bit from the M2 -> M3. It seems most likely Apple is just looking to differentiate the tiers.