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
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| iGPU | Integrated Graphics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 40 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | LPDDR5-6400 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption | 53 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Man. Technology | 5 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 31.10.2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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- Average benchmark valuesThe 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.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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| Total War Pharaoh | 242 | 210 | 139 | 109 | 82 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 45 | 44 | 44 | 42 | 36 | |
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 96 | 90 | 60 | |||
| Star Wars Jedi Survivor | 51 | |||||
| Total War: Three Kingdoms | 170 | 111 | 82 | 56 | ||
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 148 | 139 | 120 | 87 | ||
| Far Cry 5 | 56 | 54 | 51 | 49 | ||
| The Witcher 3 | 87 | 81 | ||||
| GTA V | 78 | 54 | 52 | |||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 1 | 2 3 | 2 4 2 | 4 4 1 | 4 3 | |
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