Apple Launches New 3nm M3 Chips With Major GPU Improvement

Apple’s new event introduced the company’s latest 3nm chips that include the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, which are going to be available in the newly launched 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro laptops as well as the 24″ iMac.

The new M3 chips bring the biggest improvement in GPU, which aims at improving the performance of professional apps and gaming. The M3 chips will support hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, which is a first for Apple silicon.

Apple M3, Apple M3 Pro, Apple M3 Max — M3 CPU performance

The base variant of the M3 has an eight-core CPU with four performance cores and four cores for efficiency. Meanwhile, the GPU has a new architecture and 10-cores and promises to be 65% faster than the M1 when it comes to graphical performance.

It also supports up to 24GB of unified storage.

Second is the M2 Pro, which comes with a 12-core CPU that has six performance cores and six efficiency cores. There’s also an 18-core CPU that delivers 40% faster performance than the M1 Pro and supports up to 36GB of unified storage.

Apple’s flagship M3 Max comes with a 16-core CPU that has 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. Meanwhile, it has a 40-core GPU with support for up to 128GB of unified storage.

Furthermore, the chip is 50% faster than the M1 Max, while offering 80% better performance when it comes to graphics alone.

The M3 chips also have an improved Neural Engine to accelerate machine learning models