Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M3 Pro
Advantages of Apple M3
Specifications
Performance
| Integrated GPU | Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) | Apple M3 GPU |
| TGP | 30 W | 15 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1560 MB/sec | 1260 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 132.6 Klines/sec | 94.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 382.9 pages/sec | 264.5 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 393.2 Mpixels/sec | 313.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 301 pages/sec | 297 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 61.4 images/sec | 50.2 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 144.1 images/sec | 114.8 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 19.7 Mpixels/sec | 12.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 55.9 GOps/sec | 42.5 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 64.8 GOps/sec | 48.5 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 241M Primes/sec | 233M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 35.3M Strings/sec | 27.4M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 14.5 GBytes/sec | 11.5 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 290.9 MBytes/sec | 226.5 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2064 Frames/sec | 1857 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 14.1B Matrices/sec | 10B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 35.3 PPW | 35.6 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 517.1 PPW | 590.8 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 805.3 PPW | 956.7 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 7.62 PPW | 8.02 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | October 30, 2023 | October 30, 2023 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M3 | Apple M3 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - |
| P-Cores | 6 | 4 |
| P-Threads | 6 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.05 GHz | 4.05 GHz |
| E-Cores | 6 | 4 |
| E-Threads | 6 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.75 GHz | 2.75 GHz |
| Total Cores | 12 | 8 |
| Total Threads | 12 | 8 |
| Multiplier | 40x | 40x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | 37 billions | 25 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 30 W | 20 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | - |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) | Apple M3 GPU |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | 500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1600 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 144 | 80 |
| ROPs | 72 | 40 |
| Execution Units | 288 | 160 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 36 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Channels | 3 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | 102.4 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 4.0 |