Apple's M3 Pro: Efficient, but performance sideways.
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Apple announced the M3 Pro chip as part of its M3 processor family.
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The M3 Pro is the first chip where Apple reduced key specs like transistor count, CPU and GPU core count, and memory bandwidth compared to the previous generation.
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The M3 Pro has a transistor count of 37 billion, down from 40 billion in the M2 Pro
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The M3 Pro is a modest improvement over the M2 Pro, but there is a wider performance gap between the M3 Pro and M3 Max.
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The M3 Pro has six high-performance CPU cores and six smaller efficiency cores, while the M2 Pro had eight P-cores and four E-cores.
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The M3 Pro's GPU has a maximum of 18 cores, compared to 19 cores in the M2 Pro.
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Memory bandwidth has decreased from 200GB/s to 150GB/s in the M3 Pro.
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The M3 Pro shows a solid step forward in single-core CPU performance, with a 15% increase compared to the M2 Pro, but multi-core performance is similar to the M2 Pro.
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