The M3 chips are getting tough, but they promise the wait will be worth it. Mark Gurman has detailed the specifications of what may well be an “M3 Pro”, which Apple would be testing internally and which is reserved to give a coup in the professional market. The source of the news would be an App Store developer who has remained anonymous.
The well-known leaker has commented in Bloomberg that in Cupertino they are already testing these chips in MacBook Pro prototypes, running third-party applications to check that there are no failures. These Macs could be, according to Gurman, those that push Mac sales again after the decline confirmed in the last financial results press conference.
36 GB of RAM sounds great
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Let’s look at the data in detail. The M3 Pro chips that Mark Gurman has been able to obtain information about have a 12-core CPU (6 for performance and 6 more for efficiency), an 18-core GPU and 36 GB of RAM. They would be testing directly with macOS 14, successor to Ventura, which would be the system with which they would see the light.
The author’s bet is that these specifications would be those of the base M3 Pro chip, the cheapest and most restrained model (except in memory, which would be the maximum possible). The evolution seems to be linear if we put its predecessors in a quick comparative table:
|
M1 pro |
m2 pro |
m3 pro |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
cpu cores |
8 |
10 |
12 |
|
gpu cores |
14 |
16 |
18 |
|
memory |
32 |
32 |
36 |
In any case, this comparison is not entirely accurate: the most important thing here is that the M3 Pro chips They are going to use 3nm transistors instead of the 5nm ones that we have been seeing in the M1 and M2. And that means each of those cores is going to be more powerful and consume fewer resources. We should see a steeper increase in efficiency than we saw when we jumped from the M1 Pro to the M2 Pro.
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When are these chips coming? Well, the bad news comes here, because they are not expected until next year. And before these processors arrive, we should see the arrival of the standard M3, which is theoretically being tested to launch before the end of the year in iMacs and in the rest of the computers that currently equip the M2. These we could see before New Year’s Eve, although there are pessimistic rumors about it.
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