M3 Pro = 20% faster CPU than M1 Pro; No comparison to M2 Pro was given! 🤔
M3 Max = 80% faster than M1 Max; 50% faster than M2 Max
When Apple announced the M2 Pro they claimed it was 20% faster than M1 Pro. So are we to assume M3 Pro has no performance improvement this gen?
They’ve reduced the number of performance cores from eight to six, and as per the OP memory bandwidth at 150GB/sec is lower than the 200GB/sec of the M1 Pro.
It seems reducing the number of performance cores in favour of efficiency cores has eliminated any performance uplift M3 Pro had over M2 Pro.
Has Apple deliberately nerfed the M3 Pro CPU? And for what reason?
Maybe upon further testing they’ve noticed he bandwidth is never going to be utilized with base M1/M2 specs, hence they were able to lower it without impacting end-user experience. So lowering production cost without any impact. But that’s a big maybe.
Clearly they’re trying to cut costs to bring it closer to the new M3 Base MBP (also happens to be closer in performance too). They’re trying to upsell people to the Pro (it’s a little cheaper than the M2 Pro was).
As a sidenote this is also why the pricing for the M3 Base makes exactly 0 sense (adding the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD that should have been standard for £1700 makes it the same price as the Pro where I live).
Has Apple deliberately nerfed the M3 Pro CPU? And for what reason?
From Apple’s slides starting at 10:29:
M3 = 35% faster CPU than M1; 20% faster than M2
M3 Pro = 20% faster CPU than M1 Pro; No comparison to M2 Pro was given! 🤔
M3 Max = 80% faster than M1 Max; 50% faster than M2 Max
When Apple announced the M2 Pro they claimed it was 20% faster than M1 Pro. So are we to assume M3 Pro has no performance improvement this gen?
They’ve reduced the number of performance cores from eight to six, and as per the OP memory bandwidth at 150GB/sec is lower than the 200GB/sec of the M1 Pro.
It seems reducing the number of performance cores in favour of efficiency cores has eliminated any performance uplift M3 Pro had over M2 Pro.
Maybe upon further testing they’ve noticed he bandwidth is never going to be utilized with base M1/M2 specs, hence they were able to lower it without impacting end-user experience. So lowering production cost without any impact. But that’s a big maybe.
Clearly they’re trying to cut costs to bring it closer to the new M3 Base MBP (also happens to be closer in performance too). They’re trying to upsell people to the Pro (it’s a little cheaper than the M2 Pro was).
As a sidenote this is also why the pricing for the M3 Base makes exactly 0 sense (adding the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD that should have been standard for £1700 makes it the same price as the Pro where I live).