Hands-On With the New M3 Pro MacBook Pro

[exon]

Hi to everyone from a fresh new member... Coming to the article I am very disappointed about the performance of the M3 Pro! Apple has clearly nerfed it, the GPU in particular, and I wanna know why.
This is a comparison with my Mini M2 Pro with 10 Core CPU/16 Core GPU vs a 11 Core CPU/14 Core GPU with the GPU bench using Geekbench 6:

OpenCL:

- M2 Pro: 45441 points
- M3 Pro: 42928 points

Metal:

- M2 Pro: 72474 points
- M3 Pro: 68665 points

Really Apple??!! 😤

Also a newbie here so maybe I'm missing your point. The M3 Pro looks like it's 5-10X faster than my 2012 15" MacBook Pro for both CPU and GPU, while drawing much less power. In what way is that much of an increase "very disappointing"?

 

[the Western zoo]

Watching Luke Miani’s videos, I came away with the following:
- M3 pro has better battery performance than M2 pro and M3 max
- M3 pro is less noisy than M2 pro and M3 max
- M3 pro is as powerful as M2 pro (with slight differences)

Coming from a 2018 i7 MBP, it seems to me that the M3 pro best suits my needs as I do not do a lot of intense video editing.

What am I missing?

 

[Elohim369]

If they have an I9, it still makes not a lot of sense. M3 is just twice that fast (single- and multicore).

I think it's easily more than 2x the old i9.

I had one and my first M1 was running rings around the i9... all while having way better battery life and not even getting warm, while the i9 was heating up.

Only thing the i9 had going for it is that it was basically the size of a Macbook Air - the M series has gained significant thickness, something I will never understand. What was wrong with being super sleek?

 

[DarthDon]

I think it's easily more than 2x the old i9.

I had one and my first M1 was running rings around the i9... all while having way better battery life and not even getting warm, while the i9 was heating up.

Only thing the i9 had going for it is that it was basically the size of a Macbook Air - the M series has gained significant thickness, something I will never understand. What was wrong with being super sleek?

Nothing's wrong with that. Few days ago i read the benchmark-list of the apple line processors. I was actually very surprised, that the M's aren't that fast (okay - there is anyway enough juice in all of them) to make a big difference. M1 twice that fast then the i9. Maybe specially for M's written programs will make a difference. Don't know about it.
Yes - i9 is a heater. And yes - it drains the battery in 60 mins if he want's.
My dad was an engineer and teacher of Mainframe Computers in the biggest computer business in my country. He always said; you buy a new one, when that generation is 10 times faster than yours.
And that makes sense ;-).

Thicker means cooling designs, if I'm not mistaken. There is no other reason in my opinion.

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