The Apple M3 Pro passes through benchmark and narrowly surpasses its M2 counterpart
Last week, Apple announced the new M3 processors for the new MacBook Pro and other Apple devices. The M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max were announced simultaneously, and they are already on their way to those who purchased them on launch day. Some have already received them and, of course, run them through pro benchmarks, as has been the case with the M3 Pro.
As published, the M3 Pro has been run on Geekbench and its performance has not completely satisfied those who received it. Vadim Yuryev, from the MaxTech YouTube channel, the Geekbench figures for the M3 Pro, which are what we report here.
Apple M3 Pro fails to convince in its first unofficial benchmark after its launch
The M3 Pro benchmark scores are 3.035 in single-core and 15.173 in multi-core. Yes, it offers 14% more performance in single-core than the previous generation, but only 6% more in multi-core. Much more was expected from TSMC's 3nm process, one of the biggest advances expected from TSMC and for which there have been strong bids to be the first commercial product to use them.
At the time it was said that the M3 Pro could have been weakened by Apple due to its lower memory bandwidth and the removal of two of its performance cores. The M2 Pro and M3 Pro have a 12-core design, but the M2 Pro offered an 8+4 design for the performance and efficiency cores. The M3 Pro uses a 6+6 design, with two fewer performance cores, but two additional efficiency cores.
According to MacRumors, the M3 Max could be up to 45% faster than its multi-core predecessor. Early tests also show that the base M3 is 20% faster than the M2. So what happened to the M3 Pro? It could be because they want to encourage people to upgrade to the more expensive Max model.
