Multicore score on the Config B (comparable to M3 in consumption) is like 14K compared to the M3 which is 11.7K
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First Benchmark Results Surface for M3 Chip in New Macs
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Well that's a question to that specific build tool. Builds can be done in parallel and many do so.The build tool I (have to) use disagrees.
From the presentation, it seemed like they were trying to address the people still using Intel machines. Which is probably a big group, given that a lot of people will eke out 5 years' use from their computers. Those people are in for a treat, honestly. Going from my 2020 Intel i5 Air to the M1 Air gave me a Mac with 2-3x the battery life, zero fan noise, and what felt like 2x the responsiveness. Such a huge difference. Looks like it takes a few years worth of Apple Silicon updates to equal that jump.
It's quite easy to re-map them. I have them all mapped to Windows-esque shortcuts with command being the bottom left key, because the ergonomics of the command key being beside the space bar is just terrible. All other shortcuts are quite similar.
But it's unified and built into the CPU. SoC. It's not the old-world memory slotted somewhere on the motherboard.
Phone-level comparison is also somewhat of a misnomer. iPhone 15 Pro Max is more powerful than most PCs.
More horsepower is never a bad thing imo. I am more than happy to pay for a bit extra performance headroom.
Because no efficiency cores, only performance ones. Most probably higher idle/low usage power consumption and lower battery life.
But there is no M3 Max Mac Studio. So it doesn't matter that the M2 Max Studio was released in June and they just released some new Mac models with M3-family chips, because none of those other Macs are Studios. When Apple releases a M3 Max Studio, then you'll have an apples-to-apples comparison, no pun intended, and a timeline that applies to your statement.
A newer chip may have been released that outshines the M2 Max, but it's not (yet) in the machine you're using as an example, so it doesn't matter.
I'm thinking of upgrading my M2 MacBook Air for 14" M3 MacBook Pro JUST because of the wallpaper!
How being unified is against the fact that it's not enough for anything except the very light office productivity.
Phone comparison is totally fine.
It would be incredibly stupid for them to focus on comparisons against the M2 when there is still plenty of M2 stock left to sell through. Basic business communications rule.
Not that surprising given that M3 Max is a single chip with 12 performance cores, while M2 Ultra is two M2 Max glued together for 16 performance cores, held back by the inherent bottlenecks of this solution. It only beat M2 Max by 43%, so it's very far away from linear scaling.M3 MAX is faster than M2 ULTRA
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Wow, M3 Max outperforms M2 Ultra in Geekbench! While a small margin, it's funny how Mac Pro always ages poorly. 2019 Mac Pro was released less than a year before the Apple Silicon transition, and now the M2 Ultra Mac Pro is being beat by a lower end chip 4 months after release.x.com
OH MY WORD, THAT'S INCREDIBLE! A MacBook is faster than the new Mac Pro!M3 MAX is faster than M2 ULTRA
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Michael Burkhardt (@mbrkhrdt) on X
Wow, M3 Max outperforms M2 Ultra in Geekbench! While a small margin, it's funny how Mac Pro always ages poorly. 2019 Mac Pro was released less than a year before the Apple Silicon transition, and now the M2 Ultra Mac Pro is being beat by a lower end chip 4 months after release.
But they can use third-party gpus, while Apple can't. That drastically changes the equation..
Considering the work I've been doing on my M2 MacBook Air with 8 GB of RAM, I can say that stating "not enough for anything except the very light office productivity" means you do not know what you are talking about.
Yes, Apple should clear it with previous owners first, so as to not hurt their feelings. After all, the computer they bought no longer suits their needs, once a faster machine comes along.
I have 8Gb Air and i definitely know it's constantly swapping RAM.
With these nerfings the only real benefits of Pro are the display support, not even the option for 24 vs 32 gb ram worth it.
As much as I love iMacs, that's a major issue with them. I have some perfectly lovely iMacs with great screens that I can't really use because they are getting old (2013/2014) and can't be used as an external monitor with my Apple Silicon computers.