First Benchmark Outcomes Floor for M3 Chip in New Macs

The primary benchmark outcomes for the usual M3 chip surfaced in the Geekbench 6 database immediately, offering a more in-depth take a look at the chip’s CPU efficiency enhancements.

Based mostly on the outcomes thus far, the M3 chip has single-core and multi-core scores of round 3,000 and 11,700, respectively. The usual M2 chip has single-core and multi-core scores of round 2,600 and 9,700, respectively, so the M3 chip is as much as 20% quicker than the M2 chip, as Apple claimed throughout its “Scary Fast” event on Monday.

Geekbench 6 multi-core scores:

• M3 chip: ~11,700 (+20% vs. M2 chip)
• M2 chip: ~9,700 (+17% vs. M1 chip)
• M1 chip: ~8,315

It is unclear if the outcomes are for the brand new 14-inch MacBook Professional or iMac, each of which can be found with the usual M3 chip, however efficiency needs to be related for each machines. The outcomes have a “Mac15,3” identifier, which Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman beforehand reported was for a laptop computer with the identical show decision as a 14-inch MacBook Professional.

The usual M3 chip is supplied with an 8-core CPU and as much as a 10-core GPU, and it helps as much as 24GB of unified reminiscence. The chip has improved GPU structure with assist for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, which can make high-end video games look extra sensible. It additionally has a 16-core Neural Engine for AI.

We now have but to see any Geekbench outcomes for the higher-end M3 Professional and M3 Max chips obtainable in most new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional fashions.