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Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU

Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU

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 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 9-Core GPU compare 9
M3 8-Core GPU compare 8
iGPUIntegrated Graphics
Pipelines30 - unified
Memory TypeLPDDR5-6400
Shared Memoryno
Power Consumption53 Watt
Man. Technology5 nm
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement31.10.2023
CPU in M3 Max 30-Core GPUGPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Apple M3 Max 14-Core14 x 2748 MHz, 78 W? MHz? MHz

Benchmarks

- Range of benchmark values
red legend - Average benchmark values
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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    2023 Apple MacBook Pro with M3 Max chip 30-Core GPU (16.2-inch, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD Storage) Silver (Renewed)
  • $2,299.00
    2023 Apple MacBook Pro with M3 Max chip 30-Core GPU (16.2-inch, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD Storage) Silver (Renewed Premium)
  • $2,015.00
    Apple 2023 MacBook Pro with Apple M3 Max Chip, 14-inch, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD Storage, Space Black (Renewed)
  • $2,222.00
    Apple MacBook Pro 2023 with Apple M3 Max 14-Core CPU / 30-Core GPU (14-inch, 36GB RAM, 2TB SSD) Space Black (Renewed)
  • $2,809.99
    Apple 2023 MacBook Pro with M3 Max Chip with 16-Core CPU and 40-Core GPU (16.2-inch, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD Storage) (QWERTY English) Space Black (Renewed)

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Class 4

* Approximate position of the graphics adapter

Klaus Hinum (Update: 2026-02-18)