Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU
The Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU is a self-designed graphics card in the Apple M3 SoC and according to Apple with forty cores. According to Apple, the GPU uses a new architecture and now offers dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration.
The GPU can access up to 128 GB LPDDR5-6400 unified memory via a 512 bit memory bus (max 400 GBit/s). Thanks to dynamic caching, the GPU should only reserve as much memory as is required.
Since the SoC is manufactured in the current 3nm (probably N3B) at TSMC. According to powermetrics, the GPU requires up to 60 watts (chip incl. CPU total 78 watts).
Apple M3 Series Pipelines 40 - unified Memory Type LPDDR5-6400 Shared Memory no Power Consumption 53 Watt technology 5 nm Notebook Size medium sized Date of Announcement 31.10.2023
CPU in M3 Max 40-Core GPU GPU Base Speed GPU Boost / Turbo Apple M3 Max 16-Core 16 x 2748 MHz, 78 W ? MHz ? MHz
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited
min: 31268 avg: 31336 median: 31335.5 (36%) max: 31403 Points
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Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom METAL *
min: 29.6 avg: 30.8 median: 30.8 (3%) max: 32 Seconds
Cinebench R15 Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 136.23 avg: 137.4 median: 137.4 (8%) max: 138.52 fps
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Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 4K Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 188.2 avg: 196 median: 196 (80%) max: 203.7 fps
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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 416 avg: 431 median: 431 (78%) max: 446 fps
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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen
min: 858 avg: 863 median: 863 (64%) max: 868 fps
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GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
min: 556 avg: 560 median: 560 (63%) max: 564 fps
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GFXBench 3.1 - GFXBench Manhattan ES 3.1 Offscreen
min: 1163 avg: 1178 median: 1178 (25%) max: 1193 fps
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
min: 1557 avg: 1573 median: 1573 (92%) max: 1589 fps
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
min: 2893 avg: 2942 median: 2941.5 (23%) max: 2990 fps
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Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU OpenCL
min: 91413 avg: 91416 median: 91415.5 (26%) max: 91418 points
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Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU Metal
min: 154675 avg: 155214 median: 155214 (100%) max: 155752 points
Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 87.7 avg: 91.6 median: 91.6 (13%) max: 95.4 Watt
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0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Tooltip Apple MacBook Pro 14 2023 M3 Max: Ø87.7 (78-90.9)
Apple MacBook Pro 16 2023 M3 Max: Ø95.4 (82.1-100.3)
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 Power Consumption *
min: 92.5 avg: 100.8 median: 100.8 (22%) max: 109 Watt
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0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 Tooltip Apple MacBook Pro 14 2023 M3 Max: Ø92.5 (87.3-95.6)
Apple MacBook Pro 16 2023 M3 Max: Ø109 (97.7-114.8)
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency
min: 0.633 avg: 0.8 median: 0.8 (81%) max: 0.995 fps per Watt
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Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency - external Monitor
min: 0.723 avg: 0.9 median: 0.9 (73%) max: 1.207 fps per Watt
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Emissions Witcher 3 Fan Noise + Emissions - Witcher 3 Fan Noise
min: 42.8 avg: 43.1 median: 43.1 (69%) max: 43.4 dB(A)
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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