Apple M3 Max 14-Core

The Apple M3 Max 14 core CPU is a system on a chip (SoC) from Apple for notebooks that was introduced towards the end of 2023. It integrates a new 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores with up to 4.06 GHz and 4 efficiency cores with 2.8 GHz. There is also a more powerful 16-core variant with 40 GPU cores.

Thanks to the higher clock rates and architectural improvements, the processor performance is also significantly better than the M2 Max in benchmarks and can keep up with the fastest mobile CPUs.

The M3 also integrates a new graphics card with dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration via hardware. In the cheaper model, 30 of the chip's 40 cores are used and support up to 5 displays simultaneously (internal and 4 external).

GPU and CPU can jointly access the shared memory on the package (unified memory). This is available in 36 and 96 GB variants and offers 400 GB/s maximum bandwidth (512 bit bus).

The integrated 16-core Neural Engine has also been revised and now offers 18 TOPS peak performance (compared to 15.8 TOPS in the M2 but 35 TOPS in the new A17 Pro). The video engine now also supports AV1 decoding in hardware. H.264, HEVC and ProRes (RAW) can still be decoded and encoded. Like its predecessor, the Max chip offers two video engines and can therefore encode and decode two streams simultaneously.

Unfortunately, the integrated WLAN only continues to support WiFi 6E (no WiFi 7), unlike the small M3 SoC thunderbolt 4 is also supported (max 40 Gbit/s).

The chip is manufactured in the current 3nm process (N3B) at TSMC and contains 92 billion transistors (+37% vs. Apple M2 Max).

Series	Apple Apple M3
Series: Apple M3 Apple M3 Max 16-Core 2.75 - 4.06 GHz 16 / 16  Apple M3 Max 14-Core « 2.75 - 4.06 GHz 14 / 14  Apple M3 Pro 12-Core 2.75 - 4.06 GHz 12 / 12  Apple M3 Pro 11-Core 2.75 - 4.06 GHz 11 / 11  Apple M3 2.75 - 4.06 GHz 8 / 8
Clock Rate	2748 - 4056 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads	14 / 14 10 x 4.1 GHz Apple M3 P-Core 4 x 2.7 GHz Apple M3 E-Core
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)	78 Watt
Transistor Count	92000 Million
Manufacturing Technology	3 nm
Features	ARMv8 Instruction Set
GPU	Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	ARM
Announcement Date	10/30/2023
Product Link (external)	www.apple.com

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