Running at 4 Ghz.
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First Geekbench for base M3
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Running at 4 Ghz.
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Very nice! I expect it to hit between 3100-3200 once the machine stops the initial background work.
I wonder how Pro/Max with dual fan cooling will perform? Ofc only slightly better, but interested in the score.
The M3 has about a 500mHz speed boost right?
Is that expected based on scaling with clocks from the M2?
I’m hoping the Max will be clocked higher. Perhaps 4.2?
What does this actually do for the system? I know it says it focuses your system resources on games, reduces Bluetooth polling rate etc , but why wouldn't you want it on all of the time then?
This tweet suggests the M3 max is faster than the M2 Ultra. Haven’t confirmed it though.
x.com
Edit. Apparently the site this is from is unreliable. So perhaps disregard.
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.
x.com
Edit. Apparently the site this is from is unreliable. So perhaps disregard.
well those background tasks ARE doing something you want long term, like tagging your photo library and prepping disk spotlight, etc. And as for bluetooth polling rate and whatnot there are battery ramifications they prob decided justified making this part of the option.
If anyone here gets an M3x run the geekbench tool when in game mode here is why:
Game Mode optimizes your gaming experience by giving your game the highest priority access to your CPU and GPU, lowering usage for background tasks.
4 GHz, I haven’t heard that number associated with a processor before. I remember the days of the GHz wars, back when it seemed like processor speed was the only spec that mattered (probably Pentium 4, Athalon, G4/G5 era), then they hit a stone wall. I honestly gave up hope on ever seeing a mainstream 4GHz chip, but here we are, in the base M3 even. (An ARM chip, incidentally. If, 20 years ago, you had told me that ARM would progress like it did, I’m not sure I would have believed you. Now, 15 years ago, the writing was already on the wall, but not 20.)
I thought it increased polling rate to keep up with gamer keyboard/mouse
This tweet suggests the M3 max is faster than the M2 Ultra. Haven’t confirmed it though.
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.
Edit. Apparently the site this is from is unreliable. So perhaps disregard.
these things never pan out to be true but if it is the m3 max has the fastest MC score on geekbench, topping the 24-core intel i9 139000KS (21740). The M3 core is already right there neck and neck in single-core.
That’s pretty amazing if they kept to the same power constraints. Considering the M1 was only 3.2 GHz that’s a big leap, but it does mean that in terms of IPC things haven’t changed very much.