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Is the M3 “worse” than the M2?

• Jtsummers 2y ago
  On CPU/GPU benchmarks the M3 comes out ahead of the M2 (all flavors in like-for-like comparisons, plain, pro, max). However the M3 Pro and some M3 Max's have lower memory bandwidth than their M2 counterparts. So a plain M3 is better than a plain M2. The top end M3 Max is better than the M2 Max. For the rest, you have to do a comparison and determine based on your intended use-cases, but for most people the M3 {Pro,Max} will be better than the M2 equivalent.
• tedd4u 2y ago
  M3 Pro (and some lower-core count M3 Max) parts have lower memory bandwidth than their M2 comparable. If your workload is highly dependent on memory bandwidth, then M2->M3 on Pro or Max might not be an improvement. See tables here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M2#Variants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M2#Variants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M3#Variants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M3#Variants