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Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU vs Apple M3 8-Core GPU

Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU

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The Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU is a self-designed graphics card in the Apple M3 SoC and offers 30 of the 40 cores that are included in the chip. According to Apple, the GPU uses a new architecture and now offers dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration.

The graphics card can access up to 96 GB LPDDR5-6400 unified memory via a 512 bit memory bus (max 400 GBit/s). Thanks to dynamic caching, the GPU only reserves as much memory as is required.

Since the SoC is manufactured in the current 3nm (probably N3B) at TSMC.

Apple M3 8-Core GPU

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The Apple M3 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 10 cores designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M3 SoC. It uses the unified memory architecture of the M3 SoC (up to 24 GB LPDDR5-6400 with 100 GB/s bandwidth). The GPU uses a new architecture with support for mesh shading and ray tracing. Dynamic caching is also a new feature that should only us as much shared memory as needed.

The old M2 SoC showed a difference of around 15% between the 8-core and 10-core variant. Therefore, we expect a similar difference for the M3 models. This means, the M3 8-core version should be slightly faster than the 10-core GPU in the Apple M2.

The M3 chip is manufactured in the new 3nm process at TSMC (most likely N3B). The power limit should be around the same 15 Watt as the 10-core variant.

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Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPUApple M3 8-Core GPU
Apple M3 Series
M3 Max 40-Core GPU compare 40
M3 Max 30-Core GPU 30
M3 Pro 18-Core GPU compare 18
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU compare 14
M3 10-Core GPU compare 10
M3 8-Core GPU 8
M3 Max 40-Core GPU compare 40
M3 Max 30-Core GPU 30
M3 Pro 18-Core GPU compare 18
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU compare 14
M3 10-Core GPU compare 10
M3 8-Core GPU 8
Pipelines30 - unified8 - unified
Memory TypeLPDDR5-6400LPDDR5-6400
Shared Memorynono
Power Consumption53 Watt15 Watt
technology5 nm5 nm
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement31.10.2023 31.10.2023
PredecessorM1 8-Core GPU
CPU in M3 Max 30-Core GPUGPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Apple M3 Max 14-Core14 x 2748 MHz, 78 W? MHz? MHz

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)